In addition to the ongoing dearth of women and other minorities in STEM fields, there are increasing reports of sexism in Silicon Valley at all levels. Such gendered biases get written into the technologies designers and developers create. We discuss the value developing interdisciplinary connections and gaining indepth and nuanced understandings of gender theories could have for creating techn...

Cognitive technology is leaving the lab and entering the world of the everyday. Systems such as knowledge navigators, conversational agents, and intelligent personal assistants are increasingly incorporated into real-world systems. This success of cognitive technologies poses novel methodological challenges for interdisciplinary teams tasked with their development. In order to behave successful...

The transition towards renewable energies is not only a technical, but also an economic and social challenge. Without an economic perspective that takes into account risk and uncertainty, a technically feasible scenario can easily lead to financial losses. Likewise, a technically and economically feasible scenario which is not in line with public acceptance is difficult to implement and the dif...

Introduction Convergence refers to the creation of new technologies (or industries, markets) through the combination of two or more technologies (or industries, markets), which is promoted by technical changes, innovations, and technology diffusion, and plays a key role in changing gradual innovations to destructive innovations. Furthermore, convergence is a key factor in accelerating changes i...

Wisdom has been at the heart of practical, philosophical, and theological interest since antiquity but is now attracting interdisciplinary scientific interest from academic researchers in diverse disciplines. Practical wisdom is important from the IS perspective because we have built information tools and technologies that can harm or benefit us in various ways and it is important that we under...

S cientific progress often goes hand in hand with technological advances and interdisciplinary research. Major breakthroughs in the life sciences, such as the deciphering of whole genomes, stem cell therapy or precision medicine, are the result of both new technologies and joint efforts of biologists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Moreover, each of these accomplishments wo...

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DNA microarrays are a potentially powerful technology for improving diagnostic classification, treatment selection and prognostic assessment. There are, however, many potential pitfalls in the use of microarrays that result in false leads and erroneous conclusions. Effective use of this technology requires new levels of interdisciplinary collaboration with statistical and computational scientis...