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01.04.2019 | Awards, COSS

CTETH Start-up Projects in "Critical Thinking" awarded to Heinrich Nax for his project Group assessment beyond "one grade fits all"

 

01.04.2019 | Awards, COSS

COSS wins the ERC2018 Advanced Grant for "Using the wisdom of crowds to make cities smarter"

 

26.03.2019 | Blockchain, Conferences and Workshops, Talks

3 April 2019 - Blockchain Network Design & The Science of Complex Systems Engineering (M. Zargham, BlockScience)

With a critical view on most of today's "cryptoeconomic designs", Michael will speak about how to structure complexity, the role of blockchain technology for socio-technical systems, and how he uses a new simulation tool to inform design decisions.

Talks

26.03.2019

3 April 2019 - Blockchain Network Design & The Science of Complex Systems Engineering (M. Zargham, BlockScience)

With a critical view on most of today's "cryptoeconomic designs", Michael will speak about how to structure complexity, the role of blockchain technology for socio-technical systems, and how he uses a new simulation tool to inform design decisions.

13.03.2019

Nax gives a talk on “Game theory in public goods and CPR contexts” on 4.4.2019

Heinrich Nax will be giving a talk “Game theory in public goods and CPR contexts” at the Laboratory on Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems at EPFL on April 4, 2019.

11.02.2019

BETH 2019 Starts

From today, February 2nd, BETH19 starts

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Selected publications

Kleineberg, K. K. (2017). Metric clusters in evolutionary games on scale-free networks. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1888.

Richard P. Mann and Dirk Helbing (2017) Optimal incentives for collective intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS).

Stefano Balietti, Robert L. Goldstone, and Dirk Helbing (2016). Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201603723.

Dirk Helbing and Evangelos Pournaras. (2015). Build Digital Democracy. Nature 527: 33-34.

Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki and Dirk Helbing. (2015). Stability of cooperation under image scoring in group interactions. Scientific Reports 5: 12145.

Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Nuno A.M. Araujo, Hans J. Herrmann and Dirk Helbing. (2015). Disease-Induced Resource Constraints Can Trigger Explosive Pandemics Scientific Reports 5: 16571

Media Responses

23.03.2018

Prof. Helbing: "Befreien wir uns endlich aus der Big Brother Welt!"

Professor Dirk Helbing wrote an essay for the German daily newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung where he discusses the recent Facebook data breach and the problems that we might face in our digital society.

29.01.2018

Der Standard: airline connections and the spread of flu

An Article published by Der Standard details Dirk Helbing's research on the relationship between airline connections and the spread of the flu virus.

29.01.2018

Blick: track the spread of flu by crowdsourcng

The Swiss daily newspaper Blick discusses an ETH initiative to track the spread of flu at local level by crowdsourcing data using a dedicated website and app.

Essays

23.03.2018

Prof. Helbing: "Befreien wir uns endlich aus der Big Brother Welt!"

Professor Dirk Helbing wrote an essay for the German daily newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung where he discusses the recent Facebook data breach and the problems that we might face in our digital society.

01.06.2016

Behavioural Control or Digital Democracy? - A Digital Manifesto

An english version of the Digital Manifesto: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Big Nudging, and Cybernetic Society: Is the automation of society coming? A joint appeal to secure freedom and democracy.

01.05.2016

Why we need democracy 2.0 and capitalism 2.0 to survive

Read an article published in jusletter-it.eu about opportunities stemming from growth of data-driven societies.  

Books

Books published by Prof. Dirk Helbing Amazon.com: The Automation of Society is Next: How to Survive the Digital RevolutionSpringer.com: Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market SocietySpringer.com: Social Self-OrganizationSpringer.com: Quantitative Sociodynamics