Category: News

One step ahead of burglars

A new machine-learning method developed by Cristina Kadar and colleagues makes it possible to predict burglaries even in sparsely populated areas. More information can be found at: https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/05/burglary-prediction.html

Collegium Helveticum Retraite 2019: Poster Session

In the week 08-12 April 2019 the Collegium Helveticum Retraite 2019 took place. It has been an opportunity for researchers to discuss both the ongoing projects at Collegium Helveticum and the research perspectives for 2020. Andrea Ferrario from the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and the ETH MTEC Technology Marketing Chair had the possibility to…
Read more

ETH-exhibition “goMATH – going the MATH way” 11-22 March 2019

From 11 to 22 March, the exhibition “goMATH – going the MATH way” in the main hall of ETH Zurich presents a number of portraits of contemporary female mathematicians at different stages in their career – from academia as well as business. The exhibition is part of a series of events organized by the Department of Mathematics…
Read more

ETH Spring Semester 2019: a data science-driven lecture from the Chair of Technology Marketing

Today 18.02.19, the ETH Spring Semester 2019 starts; the Chair of Technology Marketing at ETH hosts the lecture Marketing Analytics, with lecturers PD Dr. Sebastian Tillmanns – Chair of Technology Marketing Dr. Andrea Ferrario – Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing Students will face a data science team problem to be solved…
Read more

A commentary on the ‘Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI’ European Commission’s document

Algorithmwatch has recently published a blog entry containing a commentary on the ‘Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI‘  European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (EU HLEG on AI) document. Andrea Ferrario from the Mobilab for Analytics at ETH and the ETH MTEC Technology Marketing Chair is one of the authors of the commentary, which…
Read more

Innovedum Fund sponsors breakthrough project on holographic reality and data science education

The project “rETHinking data science education in management” submitted by Dr. Andrea Ferrario, Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at the ETH MTEC Technology Marketing Chair Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel, ETH MTEC Management Information Systems Chair Dr. Erik Jentges, ETH MTEC Teaching Innovations Lab has recently won a grant from the ETH Innovedum fund. The project aims at further improving data science…
Read more

NZZ: Higher Revenues for SMEs with Patents

Lab results showing that SMEs with patents grow 10% stronger in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/schweizer-firmen-vernachlaessigen-oft-patentfragen-und-gehen-damit-grosse-risiken-ein-ld.1432143

Lab results on successful SME published

More success for SME with patents and women developers. New results of the Lab published. https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2018/10/mueller-meins-11-2018/

The Lab at the Collegium Helveticum | Themenwoche 5-12 October 2018

Last week, the Lab participated in the Collegium Helveticum Themenwoche on ‘Algorithmen und ihre Anwendung’. Organized in daily workshops, lectures and public events, the Themenwoche had as goal the discussion of questions, challenges and problems arising from the conception and use of algorithms in contemporary digital societies. Raquel (PhD student at the Lab) gave a…
Read more

AAMAS’18 Best Student Paper Award

Last week our paper “Agent-Based Simulation of Offender Mobility: Integrating Activity Nodes from Location-Based Social Networks” presented at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018) authored by Raquel Rosés, Cristina Kadar, Charlotte Gerritsen,  and Chris Ovi Rouly won the Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper AWARD! AAMAS is part of the Federated AI Meeting…
Read more