News:

• Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems «Data mining and modeling of complex techno-socio-economic systems» May 14, 2012, Lipari Island

• FuturICT - Participatory Computing for Our Complex World - «Videos Online» March 21, 2012, ETH Zurich

• The wisdom of crowds
  The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave
• The Economist

• Es braucht ein neues Finanzsystem (in German, Automatic English Translation)
• Zwei ETH-Wissenschaftler erklären, warum die Weltwirtschaft krank ist, Adam Smith unrecht hatte – und wir ganz anders über Geld nachdenken müssen.
  Zeit Online
  

• Wenn Gier die Gesellschaft zerstört (in German, Automatic English Translation)
• Ein bisschen Eigennutz tut allen gut, doch zu viel davon lässt das System einstürzen: Zwei Forscher der ETH zeigen am Computer, wie Gier eine Gesellschaft zerstört.
  Tages Anzeiger
  

• When We're Cowed by the Crowd
• A new study by Swiss scientists suggests that the interconnectedness of modern life might be making it even harder to benefit from our collective intelligence.
  The Wall Street Journal
  

• A More Human Virtual Crowd
• A new vision-based approach could help prevent crowd disasters.
  Technology Review
  

• Wisdom about Crowds
• To model the behaviour of humans en masse, treat them as people, not molecules
  The Economist
  

• How crowds move: because people want to be free
  USA Today
  

• Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
  BBC
  

• Freie Fahrt im intelligenten Straßennetz (in German, Automatic English translation).

• Draußen eigene Wege gehen (in German, Automatic English translation).

• Nutzt die Möglichkeiten des Computers! (in German, Automatic English translation).
• Wie entstehen Massenpaniken? Und noch wichtiger: Wie lassen sich Tragödien wie in Duisburg verhindern?

• Im Wunderland – wir haben eine kognitive Grenze überschritten (in German, Automatic English translation).

• Science magazine reports about the Workshop on "Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems".

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Further Information and Activities:

• International Workshop on «Agent-Based Models and Complex Techno-Social Systems»July 2-4, 2012, ETH Zurich

• Interdisciplinary Seminar «Modeling Complex Socio-Economic Systems and Crises»
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Past Workshops:

• International Workshop on «Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems 2011» June 20-25, 2011, ETH Zurich 

• International Workshop on «Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systes 2009» June 8-12, 2009, ETH Zurich
• with two Satellite Workshops on «Extreme Events in Agent-Based Socio-Economic Models» and «Modelling Interdependency between Technological and Human Systems under Crisis Scenarios»
  

• »watch conference talks at videolectures.net