FuturICT and Social Sciences: Big Data, Big Thinking

Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert, Giulia Bonelli, and Dirk Helbing (19 July 2011)

Imagine storing all the computational information produced in the world in just one year: you would have a pile of DVDs able to reach the Moon and back. How about all the data collected since the beginning of the computer era? The quantity is so huge that traditional units of measurement cannot cope. For this reason a few years ago computer scientists started talking about “Big Data”, referring to the gathering, formatting, analysing and manipulating of a massive amount of digital information.
Guest Editorial: Achilles' heels of current economic theories - The debate

Dirk Helbing, ETHZ, Switzerland (18 April 2011)

A guest editorial by Dirk Helbing (ETHZ, Switzerland) presenting an ongoing debate on the Achilles' heels of current economic theories.
Worrying signs of “new thinking”

YC Zhang (12 April 2010)

During the spectacular financial market crashes and the resulted recession, there has been renewed assault on the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and its theoretical basis—mainstream economics. George Soros announced Oct. 2009 that he will put 50 million dollars over ten years to establish an “Institute for New Economic Thinking”.
Solving the apparent diversity-accuracy dilemma of recommender systems

Fribourg team (24 March 2010)

Focus of our research group changes in time and so it happened that in the last few years we were thinking more about information filtering than about financial markets. As a landmark of this period, we recently got a paper published in PNAS.
Registration and paper upload problems fixed

Econophysics Team (6 May 2009)

The problems that some users have experienced uploading papers or registering with Econophysics Forum have been fixed. Many thanks for your patience while we tracked down the source of this problem!