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A new open position is available in our group.

Interview von Peter Ilg mit Dirk Helbing aus Sicht von ChatGPT  

Überwachungsstaat oder digitale Demokratie?   

In unserer zunehmend komplexen Welt gibt es die Zukunft nur noch in der Mehrzahl.

Klima retten mit Belohnungssystemen

Digitaler Zoo oder Mitmachgesellschaft?

Prof. Dirk Helbing im Interview über die digitale Transformation und ethische Probleme

Dirk Helbing über Privatheit, Menschenrechte und Society 5.0

«Wir sind von der Evolution für den Strassenverkehr einfach nicht gemacht»

A new open position is available in our group.

New open postdoc position position in the group. 

We have a new open postdoc position position in the group.  

COSS, ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Citizen Science Center Zurich organized the first co-creation workshop for indoor air quality monitoring on July 5, 2022.

An exciting hackathon that allows you to earn 3ECTS in 5 days.  

Traffic jams and long waiting times at junctions in city centres are part of our everyday lives - be it as pedestrians, public transport users or motorists. ETH spin-​off Lumisera promises a significantly improved traffic flow with self-​regulated traffic light systems.

A new position available at the group.

A visionary interview given by Dirk Helbing 2 years earlier.  

Regarding a slide from a lecture on February 21, 2022.

Fragen: Ursina Enz, Freie Journalistin, Zürcher Studierendenzeitung Antworten: Prof. Dirk Helbing

Fragen und Antworten zur «inappropriate slide» Fragen: Jonas Roth, NZZ, Ressort Inland Antworten: Prof. Dirk Helbing

A new position available at the group.

A transcript of a Digital Society: Ethical, Societal and Economic Challanges lecture from 24.02.2020

A transcript of a Digital Society: Ethical, Societal and Economic Challanges lecture from 21.02.2022

A new position available at the group.

Our own Nino Antulov-Fantulin and Thomas Asikis have co-authored a paper, published in Nature Communications, on an artificial neural network that can solve challenging control problems.

A new position available at the group.

A new position is available at the group.

New PhD position open.

New postdoc position open.

New postdoc position open.

An initiative to help small and medium sized companies to manage their (big) data problems  

PhD or Postdoc position in Computational Social Science

Our geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which mankind is shaping the fate of the planet, is characterized by existential threats. Some are addressed in action plans such as the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. But we seem to be caught between knowing that we should change our behavior and our entrenched habits.

Big data, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies have left us surprisingly ill-equipped for the challenges now facing us, such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Building resilience and flexibility – the hallmarks of sustainable systems – into policymaking and international cooperation is a more promising approach.

Bozen - Der einflussreichste Game Changer, Spiel-Wechsler, war ein Spielverderber. Die Corona-Pandemie hatte auch die Churburger Wirtschaftsgespräche erwischt, die 35. in alter und neuer Fassung. Es waren die zweiten unter der Regie des Zentrums für angewandte Forschung Eurac in Bozen - diesmal in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Innovationszentrum Basis Vinschgau Venosta. Und sie waren die ersten Gespräche, die als Video-Schaltung abliefen – ablaufen mussten...

Künstliche Intelligenz hat das wohl größte Potenzial für Transformation in allen Lebensbereichen. Unkontrolliert aber kann sie nicht nur die Demokratie gefährden, sondern auch den Menschen selbst.

ZÜRICH – Die Verfechter der digitalen Identifizierung betrachten die Covid-19-Pandemie als einmalige Jahrhundert-Chance mit einem potenziellen „Jackpot-Markt“ von fast acht Milliarden Menschen. In diesen gefährlichen Zeiten wird der Einsatz der digitalen Identitätsprüfung zur Eindämmung der Virusausbreitung und letztlich zur Verteilung eines Impfstoffs oft als angebracht und notwendig erachtet.

In Zeiten der Corona-Krise stehen Privatsphäre und Datenschutz vor einem Paradigmenwechsel - Corona-Apps werden kontrovers diskutiert. Wie das Gegenteil - eine digitale Demokratie - aussehen kann, erklärt Komplexitätsforscher Dirk Helbing.

Die Corona-Krise offenbart die Schwächen unserer Demokratien. Ist jetzt der richtige Augenblick für eine radikale Änderung der finanziellen und politischen Ordnung?

Dirk Helbing ist Systemwissenschaftler an der ETH. Ein Gespräch über KI, Datenschutz und die Verantwortung unserer Generation.

Der Dokumentarfilm "Master of Disaster" zeigt, wie Behördern sich mit Katastrophenübungen auf den Ernstfall vorzubereiten versuchen.

Ein Gastkommentar von Dirk Helbing und Peter Seele in der NZZ

Eine neue Herausforderung für die Bürger in China: ein soziales Bewertungs- und Punktesystem, das ihnen ihren Platz - und Erfolg - in der Gesellschaft zuweist. Oder eben nicht. Wie weit sind wir noch davon entfernt? Und wer kümmert sich hier noch um die Würde des Menschen? Fragen dazu beantwortet Professor Dirk Helbing von der ETH Zürich.  

Dirk Helbing im Interview mit Manuela Lenzen Dirk Helbing, Professor für Computational Social Science an der ETH Zürich, spricht über die Ära der Digitalisierung und die Herausforderung, deren Möglichkeiten zum Vorteil der Zivilgesellschaft zu nutzen Manuela Lenzen: Herr Helbing, wie sind Sie als Physiker an die Fakultät für Geistes-, Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften geraten?  

How do you evacuate a large city like Tokyo in the event of a natural disaster? For his interdisciplinary research on this topic, Leonel Aguilar (D-​GESS, D-​INFK), a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, has won a prize for "Innovators under 35 in Latin America".  

Influenza season is in full swing and you can help to fight it! A team of researchers led by the COSS chair at ETH Zurich and the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva launched Grippenet.ch, a webpage and mobile App based platform aimed at providing participatory monitoring of Influenza. Click to learn more and download the mobile app!

On the 16.09.2017 Prof. Helbing will give a talk titled "Superintelligenz – und dann?"

The contribution "Groundwater usage: Game theory and empirics" by Caleb Koch won the CSF award for best presentation.

We are looking for two student assistants who would support us in web development. 

We are looking for a perfectionistic student assistant who would support us in web content management, social media presence, small graphic design tasks, video cutting, and other administrative work such as organizing and running workshops. 

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow in the area of Big Data and Data Science with a particular focus on Social Mining within a EU funded project. The project aims to establish a Social Mining and Big Data Ecosystem for ethically sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining to the various dimensions of social life.

Two papers from COSS have been accepted for publication in AINA 2017.

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.

The Computer Graphics Laboratory is looking for a student assistant who can program in C++/C#, has experience in computer networking, artificial intelligence, and/or computer animation, and preferrably a prior experience with Unity game engine.

Are you studying in a field related to computer science / engineering / mathematics? Do you want to be among the first people worldwide to profit from top-notch hands-on free education in Blockchain and Internet of Things?

How can we use technology, arts and research for peace, towards transformation? This is the core question of the conference, which will take place on September 9 - 11, 2016 in Zürich, Switzerland.

at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Augsburg (DE) on the 12.09.2016.  

22nd and 23rd of April, COSS hosts the first nervousnet Hackathon! Developers, entrepreneurs, data specialists, early adopters, end users and everybody else interested in building digital democracy together, join us for the first nervousnet Hackathon!

Do you have excellent mathematical and computational skills, English language skills, social skills, and international experience? Apply now for this new, interesting and challening position.  

Open sharing of data that are collected with smart devices would empower citizens and create jobs, say Dirk Helbing and Evangelos Pournaras in their Nature Comment.

Delft University of Technology appoints Dirk Helbing as professor for the new research programme "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future" at the faculty of Technology, Policy and management.

Prof. Dirk Helbing will in conjunction with the Delft University of Technology staff supervise a new PhD program. We are looking for 10 PhD candidates with a background in computational social science, data science, computer and engineering science, socio-physics, econo-physics, or similar, to jointly study and design complex socio-technical systems.

With great sadness I have learned about the crowd disaster in Mina, close to Mecca.

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow in machine learning, artificial and collective intelligence

Wir suchen per sofort oder nach Vereinbarung eine/einen Office Managerin /-Manager.

Wir suchen per sofort oder nach Vereinbarung eine/einen Projektmanagerin /-Manager mit diplomatischer Erfahrung.

From June 24th to July 1st the COSS team will hold its annual summer workshop.

We offer a thesis supervised by Prof. Christoph Hoelscher (ETH-COG), Dr. Tyler Thrash (ETH-COG), Prof. Mubbasir Kapadia (DRZ/Rutgers), and Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH-COSS).

We are looking for student assistants with knowledge of software engineering, and distributed systems. The work will be pursued in the context of the NervousNet project.

Michael Mäs has been an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and the ICS at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands since February 2015.

We are looking for a PhD student with an excellent background in software engineering, computer systems, computer networks or distributed systems. The work will be pursued in the context of the Nervousnet Project.

We are looking for student assistants with a background in software engineering, computer systems, computer networks or distributed systems.

Write your thesis at COSS about Human Interactions in Networked Virtual Environments.  

To reflect the broader scope of our research the "Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation" (SOMS) has been renamed to "Professorship of Computational Social Science" (COSS). At the same time we have adopted the new webdesign of the ETH Zurich.

An article co-authored by Dirk Helbing has been published in Science 345 (2014).

The article co-authored by Dirk Helbing and Karsten Donnay was published in the prestigious American Journal of Political Science 58(1), 226-245.