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Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences

Understanding People - Steering Developments - Grasping Knowledge

A unique profile

With the D-GESS department, ETH Zurich can offer an extraordinary range of research and teaching, which strengthens the university’s position. Learn more about D-GESS

Four core areas

Its orientation towards the four core areas of Behavior (behavioral science), Governance (political science), Knowledge (humanities) and Law & Economics helps D-GESS maintain a clear profile in teaching and research.

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D-GESS departement proudly presents its new brochure (PDF, 1.7 MB)

Golden Owl 2016

Golden Owl for Prof. T. Schmidt

Prof. Tobias Schmidt (Energy politics) receives Golden Owl for excellent teaching.
Congratulations!

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Science in Perspective

Science in Perspective

The study programme Science in Perspective (formerly compulsory elective courses) enables students at ETH Zurich to develop new perspectives on their core subjects’ scientific and technological issues. Read more  

News

29.11.2016

China Daily USA: Price of anarchy, a price worth paying

In an article for China Daily USA, Prof. Carlo Ratti of MIT and Prof. Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich argue that while the world is heading towards a data-driven optimized society, a certain amount of randomness is a fair price to pay if we would like to preserve innovation. Read more 

29.11.2016

NRC: Meanwhile, Google is working on building an army

The daily Dutch newspaper NRC published an article in which Prof. Dirk Helbing warns against the dangers of relying too heaily on big data, and how that may lead to totalitarian systems with "little or no democratic control". Read more 

29.11.2016

EuroScientist: Self-organised scientific crowds to remedy research bureaucracy

EuroScientist published an article discussing how to remedy research bureaucracy. In the article, the opinions and writings of Prof. Dirk Helbing in the FuturICT blog are cited, to show how bureaucracy might be hindering innovation and how to tackle this problem. Read more 

Current Events

Scientific Lecture

Sociology (PDF, 152 KB)

December 16, 2016

 

The Turing Centre

Lecture Series 2016

Images of Mathematics

 

 
 
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