Department of Informatics – DDIS

• DDIS Doodle Study mentioned in press

  A joint study by the DDIS group, Harvard University and Doodle looks at cultural differences when scheduling meetings. The study that is presented this week at the prestigious CSCW conference was picked up by the press including onpage 2 of the Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes. Zum Artikel: Schweizer doodeln mit Weitsicht Direkt zum Paper: Doodle Around the WorldMore...

• Abraham Bernstein interviewed on for eZurich Publication

  eZurich, the ICT initiative of the City of Zurich, has published a magazine summarizing the achievements of the first year. On Page 11 of that publication they published a brief summary of an interview with Abraham Bernstein.More...

• Abraham Bernstein interviewed by Swiss Radio DRS 1 on Collective Intelligence

  Abraham Bernstein, Professor at IFI, was interviewed on Collective Intelligence by the Swiss Radio DRS radio show Wissen aktuell in their June 5 edition. The show is available as a podcast or as a download (in German!). The Interview touches on DDIS initiatives on how to coordinate large crowds to achieve intelligent outcomes as witnessed [...]More...

• DDIS helps the City of Zurich to put the first Swiss Open Government Data Site Online

  The city of Zurich announced today that it will publish Switzerland’s first Open Government Data site on June 28, 2012 at http://data.stadt-zuerich.ch. DDIS members Mengia Zollinger and Abraham Bernstein contributed to this effort. The project, which is part of the city of Zurich’s eZurich initiative, will provide the public with a variety of datasets collected within the city’s administration. The [...]More...

• Programming the Global Brain published in the Communications of the ACM

  The paper Programming the Global Brain by Abraham Bernstein (UZH), Mark Klein (MIT), and Thomas W. Malone (MIT) was published in the May 2012issue of the Communications of the ACM. The paper discusses the how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain. It argues that the differences between humans and computers require to make advances in [...]More...