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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.

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Gesundheitsdaten: Kommt die Regulierung schon zu spät?

Während der Konferenz: «Privatsphäre, Datenschutz, Gemeinwohl: Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Herausforderungen der Nutzung von Gesundheitsdaten für die Forschung» hält Professor Helbing einen Vortrag zum Thema: ‘Gesundheitsdaten: Kommt die Regulierung schon zu spät?’.

Digital Religion(s) go public

Professor Dirk Helbing takes part in the panel discussion and addressed the following questions from his professional perspective and expertise: - What do you expect from this UFSP in the field of technological-social developments?  - Are religion and digitality two all too unequal siblings or do they form a logical and absolutely necessary connection?  

Who Is Messing With Your Digital Twin? Body, Mind and Soul for Sale?

Professor Dirk Helbing takes part in the TEDx Conference “The Dawn of a New Era” in Geneva. With his talk “Who Is Messing With Your Digital Twin? Body, Mind and Soul for Sale?” he describes future challenges of the digital age.

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Selected publications

XL Ren, N Gleinig, D Helbing, N Antulov-Fantulin. external pageGeneralized network dismantling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (14), 6554-6559, 2019.

Stefano Duca and Heinrich H. Nax. external pageGroups and scores: the decline of cooperation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018.

external pageScience of science. Science. Volume: 359, 2018.

Evangelos Pournarasa, Mark Yao, Dirk Helbing. external pageSelf-regulating supply-demand systems. Future Generation Computer Systems.
Volume 76, 2017.

Evangelos Pournaras, Peter Pilgerstorfer, Thomas Asikis. external pageDecentralized Collective Learning for Self-managed Sharing Economies. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2018

Tian Guo, Albert Bifet, and Nino Antulov-Fantulin. external pageBitcoin Volatility Forecasting with a Glimpse into Buy and Sell Orders. IEEE ICDM. 2018

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

P. Seele and D. Helbing. external pageBoost sustainability through social justice in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Nature. 2018.

Dirk Helbing, et.al. external pageWill Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?. Scientific American, 2017.

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Media Responses

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.

Should we let algorithms make life-and-death decisions?

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.

Death by Algorithm

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.

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Essays

"Ethisch sterben lassen - ein moralisches Dilemma"

Ein Gastkommentar von Dirk Helbing und Peter Seele in der NZZ

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.

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.

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