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Postdoc Position focused on Data Science in a Computational Social Science Team
A new open position is available in our group.
Andrea Musso nominated member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna Junior Fellows.
Complexity Science Hub Vienna Junior Fellows are invited to spend time at the Hub to conduct research with Hub internal faculty. https://www.csh.ac.at/junior-externals/
«Kann KI den Verkehr und die Mobilität positiv beeinflussen?»
Interview von Peter Ilg mit Dirk Helbing aus Sicht von ChatGPT
ETH Treffpunkt Science City
Überwachungsstaat oder digitale Demokratie?
Zukünfte, die (Plural)
In unserer zunehmend komplexen Welt gibt es die Zukunft nur noch in der Mehrzahl.
Paneldiskussion
Klima retten mit Belohnungssystemen
Smart Cities
Digitaler Zoo oder Mitmachgesellschaft?
Die Gefahr der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Prof. Dirk Helbing im Interview über die digitale Transformation und ethische Probleme
Ethik Digital
Dirk Helbing über Privatheit, Menschenrechte und Society 5.0
Samstagsgespräch mit Verkehrsforscher
«Wir sind von der Evolution für den Strassenverkehr einfach nicht gemacht»
Andrea Musso awarded ETH Zürich Doc.Mobility fellowship
The ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship allows doctoral students at ETH Zurich to carry out part of their doctoral research at an institution abroad. Andrea will visit Harvard University and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
Marcin Korecki awarded ETH Zürich Doc.Mobility fellowship
The ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship allows doctoral students at ETH Zurich to carry out part of their doctoral research at an institution abroad. Marcin will visit the University of Tokyo.
Postdoc position on “Creating bio-inspired co-evolutionary incentive systems to promote recycling, using Internet of Things technologies”
A new open position is available in our group.
Postdoc position on “Creating new socio-ecological incentive systems to support sustainable action, recycling and sharing, using Internet of Things technologies”
New open postdoc position position in the group.
Postdoc Opening: “Creating new socio-ecological incentive systems to support sustainable action, recycling and sharing, using Internet of Things technologies and multiple incentive systems”
We have a new open postdoc position position in the group.
Co-creation workshop
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.
Participatory Resilience Hackathon
An exciting hackathon that allows you to earn 3ECTS in 5 days.
Intelligent traffic lights for optimal traffic flow
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.
Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / Semantic Urban Elements for Cyber-Physical Cities
A new position available at the group.
Wir sind an der Schwelle zur Dystopie angelangt
A visionary interview given by Dirk Helbing 2 years earlier.
Apologies
Regarding a slide from a lecture on February 21, 2022.
Interview 2 with Prof. Dirk Helbing
Fragen: Ursina Enz, Freie Journalistin, Zürcher Studierendenzeitung Antworten: Prof. Dirk Helbing
Interview 1 with Prof. Dirk Helbing
Fragen und Antworten zur «inappropriate slide» Fragen: Jonas Roth, NZZ, Ressort Inland Antworten: Prof. Dirk Helbing
Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / Large-Scale Traffic Simulation and Smart Cities
A new position available at the group.
Digital Society Lecture 24.02.2020
A transcript of a Digital Society: Ethical, Societal and Economic Challanges lecture from 24.02.2020
Digital Society Lecture 21.02.2022
A transcript of a Digital Society: Ethical, Societal and Economic Challanges lecture from 21.02.2022
PhD or Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / More Innovative Cities and Co-Creation
A new position available at the group.
Controlling complex systems with artificial intelligence
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.
PhD position in Computational Social Science / More Innovative Cities and Co-Creation
A new position available at the group.
Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / Large-Scale Traffic Simulation and Smart Cities
A new position is available at the group.
PhD position in Computational Social Science / More Innovative Cities and Co-Creation:
New PhD position open.
Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / Digital Democracy and Human-Centered AI:
New postdoc position open.
Postdoc position in Computational Social Science / Multi-Agent Traffic Modeling and Simulation
New postdoc position open.
Challenge US!
An initiative to help small and medium sized companies to manage their (big) data problems
COSS Job Opening
PhD or Postdoc position in Computational Social Science
COSS job opening
Postdoc or PhD position in Computational Social Science. Application deadline: 14 December 2020
Leonel Aguilar awarded as an innovator under 35
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".
Mehr Teilhabe von unten wagen
Students win two prizes revamping the Finance 4.0 demonstrator
Evangelos Pournaras wins the FAS 2019 Best Demo Paper Award
Dr. Evangelos Pournaras, Edward Gaare, Renato Kurz, and Atif Nabi Ghulam win the best demo paper award for "Democratizing data analytics: crowd-sourcing decentralized collective measurements".
From Game Theory to Computational Social Science and Beyond [Workshop]
Together with the From Game Theory to Computational Social Science and Beyond block course, the From Game Theory to Computational Social Science and Beyond workshop is held at the chair of computational social science.
Open Position: Web&Mobile Programming Student Assistant
New open position for a student assistant in the area of web and mobile programming at the chair of computational social science
Climate City Cup Initiative Launch in July 2019
The Climate City Cup is a competition for finding the most useful means in fighting climate change and spurring social collaboration on the city level. It aims to enable citizens to take on fast actions, get engaged and activated without waiting for national or international regulatory pressure.
2 SEAMS papers and ACM badge award for Evangelos Pournaras
Acceptance of two papers at the very competitive symposium of SEAMS2019:
BETH 2019 Starts
From today, February 2nd, BETH19 starts
Heinrich H. Nax wins a SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship for the Project "Markets and Norms“
On the 15.11.2018 Heinrich H. Nax won a SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship for the Project "Markets and Norm
Dirk Helbing is invited to be a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in 2019/20
Dirk Helbing is invited to be a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in 2019/2
Blockchain in Science and Education
Intersecting blockchain and science has a great potential for incentivizing collaboration and openness in science, finding new ways of funding research projects, and empowering the scientific community.Join the discussion about the place of peer-to-peer technologies in the scientific ecosystem organized by the ETH Zurich Spinoff Validity Labs and the ETH Library Lab
Blockchain Research at University Zurich
After the summer break, we are resuming our Blockchain Research Zurich Meetup. To kick off the autumn series with our fourth meetup, Prof. Claudio Tessone is guest-hosting us at UZH. This gives us all a nice opportunity to learn about what topics our colleagues at UZH are working on in the blockchain space.
Evangelos Pournaras gives a talk at GI Dagstuhl seminar on Self-Adaptive Learning
Evangelos Pournaras gives a talk at the GI Dagstuhl seminar, titled 'Self-adaptive Learning in Decentralized Combinatorial Optimization'. The talk took place at Schloss Dagstuhl, August 19 – 24, 2018.
A contribution by Pournaras et al. was ranked top 5 at the SEAMS symposium.
Evangelos Pornaras, Mark Ballandies, Dinesh Achatya, Manish Thapa, Ben-Elias Brandt contribution titled Prototyping Self-managed Interdependent Networks was ranked among the top 5 contribtions .at the SEAMS symposium.
Heinrich H. Nax wins a Heinz Sauermann Prize
Heinrich H. Nax was awarded a Heinz Sauermann Prize in support of his experimental research in economics by the German association for experimental economics (Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung).
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.
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.
Grippenet: a participatory system to monitor and fight the Flu.
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!
Empower Polis wins the first prize at the ETH policy challenge
The team of Empower Polis formed by Evangelos Pournaras, Atif Ghulamnabi, Mark Ballandies and Michael Noack wins the first prize at the ETH policy challenge!
Dr. Evangelos Pournaras will give a keynote speech at ICITST
Dr. Evangelos Pournaras will be among the keynote speakers at the "International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions" with a contribution titled Participatory Self-management Systems for Resilient Smart Cities.
Prof. Dirk Helbing will present at the Petersberger Gesprächen
On the 16.09.2017 Prof. Helbing will give a talk titled "Superintelligenz – und dann?"
Evangelos Pournaras will give a talk on "Making sharing economies more sustainable"
On 02.09.2017 Dr. Evangelos Pournaras will give a talk on "Making sharing economies more sustainable" at Scientifica.
Caleb Koch won the CSF Award for best presentation
The contribution "Groundwater usage: Game theory and empirics" by Caleb Koch won the CSF award for best presentation.
International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems
The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017) will be held along with the 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). SASO is part of the Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*).
Two new papers accepted for publication in AINA 2017.
Two papers from COSS have been accepted for publication in AINA 2017.
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
ASSET project
Networking and inspiration for the ASSET project.
The 2nd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems
at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Augsburg (DE) on the 12.09.2016.
New Name, New Website
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.