May 16, 2013 Rico Sennrich wins 2013 Mercator Award

Rico Sennrich wins a Mercator Award for his research on "Domain-specific Statistical Machine Translation". With the Mercator Awards, the Graduate Campus annually awards a research prize for outstanding young academics at the University of Zurich. The prize aims at research projects of societal relevance using inter- or transdisciplinary approaches.

May 16, 2013 A documentary about Prof. Scaramuzza's research on vision-controlled autonomous micro helicopters for search and rescue operations by the Swiss French television RTS

Article on RTS.ch: "Des drones pour sauver des vies"

Mar 18, 2013 Sven Seuken wins Google Faculty Research Award

Sven Seuken wins a Google Faculty Research Award for his research project on "Human Recommender Systems." The award amounts to $76,000 for one year. Google Faculty Research Awards are highly competitive, and this round, the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich was the only Swiss institution to receive such an award.More...

Mar 12, 2013 One of the IFI's Best 2012 Ph.D. Thesis

One of the IFI's Best 2012 Ph.D. Thesis of Fabio Hecht Submitted to the GI Ph.D. Thesis Competition.

Mar 1, 2013 Der Spion vor deinem Fenster

Article about Davide Scaramuzza research in the Weltwoche Magazine Nr. 9.13

Feb 20, 2013 Schweizer doodeln mit Weitsicht

Eine gemeinsame Studie DDIS Gruppe des IfI's und der Universität und Harvard zeigt auf, wie sich verschiedene Kulturen bei der Terminfindung via Doodle unterscheiden. Und: Keiner doodelt häufiger als die Liechtensteiner.

Feb 14, 2013 Youtube frisst täglich soviel Strom wie die Schweizer Haushalte

Der Zürcher EMPA-Forscher Lorenz Hilty hat herausgefunden: Durch den Internet-Datenverkehr wird nicht soviel Strom verbraucht, wie man das bisher dachte. Aber es sei immer noch zuviel.

Feb 12, 2013 Von selbst geschieht nichts

«Von selbst geschieht nichts»

Jan 17, 2013 Lorenz Hilty affiliated professor at KTH Stockholm

The Center for Sustainable Communications at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) appointed Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hilty as affiliated professor in ICT for sustainable development. We sincerely congratulate him on this assignment and wish him a lot of success!

Jan 14, 2013 Article on Connected TV

In its article on Connected TV, Alpha Galileo covers Vista-TV, a project coordinated by Prof. Abraham Bernstein.

Jan 14, 2013 Interview mit Lorenz Hilty

Lorenz Hilty, Professor für Informatik an der Universität Zürich und Empa-Forscher, skizziert seine Vision eines intelligent gesteuerten Energieverbrauchs. Die von ihm organisierte Konferenz «ICT for Sustainability» (ICT4S) soll im Februar in Zürich als Startschuss dienen.

Jan 14, 2013 Roboy in the press

Press clippings about Roboy, the humanoid Robot currently under construction at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich.

Dec 17, 2012 Best Bachelor Thesis Award in 2012

The Bachelor Thesis of the CSG student Jeton Memeti was awarded the best Bachelor Thesis in 2012 from the Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme group (KuVS - Communications and Distributed Systems), the formally recognized networking expert group of the German Computer Science Association (GI). Jeton was invited for that reason to present at the NetSys 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany his Bachelor Thesis' results.

Dec 11, 2012 First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability

IFI's Informatics and Sustainability Research Group and the ETH Energy Science Center are jointly organizing the "First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability" in Zurich.

Nov 19, 2012 IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award

IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award

Nov 8, 2012 The CSG@IFI is by now officially an Ubuntu and Debian mirror site

The CSG@IFI is by now officially an Ubuntu and Debian mirror site

Oct 30, 2012 Article in Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 11, Pages 76-87:The Challenges Ahead for Bio-Inspired 'Soft' Robotics by Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, Fumiya Iida

Oct 25, 2012 Excellent! Sebastian Müller Awarded for his Master's Thesis

Sebastian Müller, who is now a PhD student at s.e.a.l research group has received one of UZH's semester awards for his 2011 Master's thesis "SmellTagger: Augmenting Design and Code Reviews with Multi-Touch Technology".

Oct 15, 2012 Crowdlang and CrowdOS supported by SNF

CrowdLang and CrowdOS, a programming language and operating system for human and machine computers (developed at the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group) is now supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). For more infos, see link below:

Jul 9, 2012 CatchMyPain.com wins biggest Swiss entrepreneurship award

The start-up Sanovation AG is among the winners of this year’s W.A. de Vigier entrepreneurship award. The team will receive CHF 100’000 to support their work on a worldwide chronic pain diary, called CatchMyPain.com.

Jun 20, 2012 IfI Professor Lorenz Hilty in the News with Report on Geolocation

The Swiss Center for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS) presented the results of a project led by Lorenz Hilty, professor at Ifi and Empa, to the media. The report titled "Lokalisiert und identifiziert" has been published by VDF Publisher at ETH as a book and is available in German (including an English summary) for download

Jun 6, 2012 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!).

Jun 4, 2012 Davide Scaramuzza wins 2012 European Young Researcher Award

Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Lab is the recipient of the 2012 European Young Researcher Award. He has been awarded by the Euroscience Selection Committee for his excellent work in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics.

Apr 26, 2012 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 2012 issue of the Communications of the ACM. A small movie accompaning the publicsation was also publsihed in the CACM on-line edition.

Apr 29, 2012 UZH confers an honorary doctorate upon Prof. Thomas Malone

The Faculty of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Technology of the University of Zurich confers an honorary doctorate upon Prof. Thomas Malone, PhD, in recognition of the importance and diversity of his scientific contributions to the interaction between information technology and economic sciences, particularly the influence of information technology on market structures, coordination problems, and collective intelligence.

Jan 13, 2012 Abraham Bernstein in 20 Minuten Science Pages

The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" published an article (second page; local copy) today (13.1.2012) about Abraham Bernstein's work on Crowdsourcing. The article (in German only) discusses how the wisdom of crowds has been leveraged for centuries and that the Internet offers new opportunities to bring Crowdsourcing to new levels.

Dec 30, 2011 DDIS Project CrowdLang highlighted in UZH Magazin

Magazin Title Page

The Current Edition of the UZH Magazin highlights DDIS project CrowdLang with a two page article. The article explains how CrowdLang can be used to accomplish non-trivial tasks with a large number of crowdworkers. 

Dec 16, 2011 EU ITN on Data Intensive Visualization and Analysis (DIVA)

In collaboration with six partners from Italy, Germany, Sweden, France and Hungary, Prof. Renato Pajarola from the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab (VMML vmml.ifi.uzh.ch) has been awarded a 4-year EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) on Data Intensive Visualization and Analysis (DIVA).

Dec 5, 2011 Interview with Prof. Bernstein in UZH News

UZH News has published an interview with Prof. Bernstein on crowdsourcing.

Nov 3, 2011 Special Seminar: Open Government Data in the Cloud

On November 21 at 16:00, Mark Gayler, Open Software Evangelist atMicrosoft Corporation, is going to give a special seminar on Open Government Data in the Cloud.

Oct 12, 2011 DDIS Student Katharina Reinecke wins Mercator Dissertation Award

DDIS Graduate Katharina Reinecke wins the Mercator Dissertation award with her thesis "Culturally Adaptive User Interfaces". The dissertation investigates how to build user interfaces that automatically adapt to a user's cultural background. She finds that her approach significantly improves the users' efficiency.

Oct 4, 2011 Three new Assistant Professors at IfI / Drei neue Assistenzprofessuren am IfI

The University council has appointed three new assistant professors at IfI.
Der Universitätsrat hat drei neue Assistenzprofessoren am IfI ernannt.

Aug 24, 2011 Sven Seuken appointed Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Computation and Economics

Dr. Sven Seuken has been appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Computation and Economics at the Department of Informatics.

Jun 30, 2011 AIS digital library available for UZH students and researchers

IfI has negotiated full access to the AIS digital library...

May 4, 2011 Marc Vontobel und Pascal Kaufmann lancieren die Starmind Know-How Company

Marc Vontobel und Pascal Kaufmann lancierten am 19.04.2011 die Starmind Know-how Company. Mehrere...

Apr 28, 2011 Manuela Züger erhält Semesterpreis der UZH

Manuela Züger hat für ihre Bachelorarbeit “Potential Use of Genetic Programming in Storm Warning...

Apr 28, 2011 Wie der Körper das Denken prägt

Reportage über die Forschung von Prof. Rolf Pfeifer

Jan 10, 2011 International PhD Student Guide

The University of Zurich offers a web page with a wide range of information relevant to your...

Oct 2, 2010 Registering for ETH-Modules

Ab Herbstsemester 2010 werden alle Studierenden der Universität Zürich, welche an der ETH...

Sep 7, 2010 SNF Research Grant on Systems of Systems Analysis (SoSYA)

Prof. Harald Gall from the Software Evolution and Architecture Lab, in collaboration with Prof....

Sep 7, 2010 SNF Research Grant on Multiscale Volume Visualization and Analysis

Prof. Renato Pajarola from the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab, in collaboration with Prof....

Aug 31, 2010 Dr. Elaine M. Huang appointed as Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

She will be the head of the new People and Computing Lab and is the successor to Professor Helmut...

Apr 15, 2010 "NCCR Robotics" officially approved!

National Competence Center Research (NCCR) approved

Apr 14, 2010 Final list of speakers for IfI 40th anniversary symposium

We are glad to announce the final list of speakers for 40th anniversary symposium

Mar 29, 2010 Bruker Biospin releases TopSpin 3.0 with DDIS Software Inside

DDIS/IfI Software inside

Jan 28, 2010 Renato Pajarola has been appointed associate editor of Computers and Graphics (Elsevier)

Prof. Renato Pajarola has been appointed as associated editor of Computer and Graphics, an...

Jan 21, 2010 Abraham Bernstein has been elected as associate editor of the ACM TiiS

TiiS (Transactions on intelligent information systems)

Jan 20, 2010 Zeit online ueber ShanghAI Lectures

In einem Seminar in Künstlicher Intelligenz der Uni Zürich treffen sich 370 Studenten aus aller...

Jan 20, 2010 DDIS and SEAL PhD student Amancio Bouza wins "Web 2.0 @ UBS" competition Collaborative Filtering As A Driver to Enable Clients to Explore, Share Experience and Build Recommendations for Products & Services

Collaborative Filtering As A Driver to Enable Clients to Explore, Share Experience and Build...

Jan 11, 2010 Prof Harald Gall has been elected as Associate Editor of TSE

TSE (Transactions on Software Engineering)