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New Master’s degree programme: Management, Economics, and Data Science

Digitalisation is revolutionising every aspect of economics. Thanks to this transformation, companies can use innovative tools to generate data volumes in the googol byte range. They need state-of-the-art management science methods to ensure that insights potentially contained in the data can be used in a meaningful and purposeful way to achieve success. Experts specialising in this cross-sectional subject – which cuts across all areas of data science and economics – will receive academic training at the University of Klagenfurt from the winter semester of 2023/24.

5 career tips for students

Getting ready to enter the world of work while you’re still at university? Here are five tips that will help you succeed:

Job advertisement: Predoc Position in Software Engineering (f/m/d)

The Software Engineering Research Group at the University of Klagenfurt and the Research Center Hagenberg of the University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria are pleased to announce a Predoc position (f/m/d) in software engineering with a focus on program analysis using formal methods. The deadline for submission of the application ends on June ^4th, 2023. The position is for 2 years and the planned starting date is as soon as possible.

PhD Student for Program Analysis using Formal Methods

“What astonishes me is how easily we humans are persuaded by content that is generated by a machine.”

Many of those following the current media discourse are left with a sense of alarmism: The message seems to be that advances being made in the development of artificial intelligence could cause the systems to spiral out of control. At the same time, experts are voicing concern about the potential influence of these technologies on the stability of democracies, given that images can be manipulated in a matter of seconds. We asked Wolfgang Faber, professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, for his take on the new AI tools and the state of research.