2016
Big Data Study on spread of flu launched by COSS
In Switzerland, the start of the Christmas season once again marks the beginning of the flu season. Big data researchers at ETH Zurich are now investigating how people’s behaviour is related to the spread of flu. ETH Zurich staff and students can also participate in the study.
Akshay Uttama Nambi, Evangelos Pournaras and RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad nominated to the IE Technology News
Akshay Uttama Nambi, Evangelos Pournaras and RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad paper on Temporal Self-regulation of Energy Demand has been nominated to the IE Technology News
Professor Dirk Helbing gives the keynote speech at the OCG Jahresopening 2017 in Vienna (AT) on 24.01.2017
Professor Dirk Helbing will be delivering the keynote speech at the OCG Jahresopening 2017. The title of the talk will be "Mobility 4.0" and will discuss how digital technology will transform the mobility sector. The talk will take place at the Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft (OCG, Austrian Computer Society) in Vienna on Tuesday, 24.01.2017.
China Daily USA: Price of anarchy, a price worth paying
In an article for China Daily USA, Prof. Carlo Ratti of MIT and Prof. Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich argue that while the world is heading towards a data-driven optimized society, a certain amount of randomness is a fair price to pay if we would like to preserve innovation.
NRC: Meanwhile, Google is working on building an army
The daily Dutch newspaper NRC published an article in which Prof. Dirk Helbing warns against the dangers of relying too heaily on big data, and how that may lead to totalitarian systems with "little or no democratic control".