Invitation to celebrate the World Logic Day digitally - 14 January 2021 - Ambassadors of Logic and public Vienna Logic Day Lecture

["Rozman, Mihaela" <mihaela.rozman@tuwien.ac.at>]

Dear colleagues, dear friends of logic,


On 14 January 2021, you are cordially invited to celebrate the World Logic =
Day digitally with the community from the city of Kurt G=F6del, Ludwig Witt=
genstein, and the Vienna Circle.

The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at Vienna University of Technolo=
gy (VCLA at TU Wien) represents six research groups celebrating the World L=
ogic Day 2021 (WLD) with:


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Vienna World Logic Day Lecture

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Vienna World Logic Day Lecture with Prof. Georg Gottlob on the future of lo=
gic in the world shaped by Artificial intelligence
Date: 14 January 2021
Time: 8am PST | 11am EST | 1pm GMT-3 | 5pm CET
Digital venue: Zoom or YouTube


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Ambassadors of Logic

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We asked renowned logicians from the fields of computer science, philosophy=
, mathematics, artificial intelligence to provide us with short statements =
on the WLD.
This is what they have to say: https://logicday.vcla.at


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Celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe

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We are featuring events celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe. =
Send us an email, and we will include you on our website. Additionally, if =
you are organising an event and wish to be listed in the official list of t=
he World Logic Day 2021 events and use the official WLD logo in your announ=
cements, please submit your event as listed on the website of the WLD 2021.


UNESCO proclaimed World Logic Day in 2019, in association with the Internat=
ional Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), to enhance public =
understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and inn=
ovation. "In the twenty-first century - indeed, now more than ever - the di=
scipline of logic is a particularly timely one, utterly vital to our societ=
ies and economies. Computer science and information and communications tech=
nology, for example, are rooted in logical and algorithmic reasoning." - Au=
drey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO


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Free access and non-obligatory registration on the website

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Please visit the website of Vienna World Logic Day at: https://logicday.vcl=
a.at/


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