IfI News 2013
News list
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IfI at Silvesterlauf Zürich 2013
On December 15, Thomas Fritz and Renato Pajarola participated in Zurich's racing event "Silvesterlauf" and proved that IfI members are fast and fit in all tracks of life.
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Davide Scaramuzza's MS student Benji Keiser wins KUKA Best Student Project 2013
Link to the project description:
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Lorenz Hilty on power consumption of the internet (WWF Magazine)
The current issue of the WWF Magazine cites Lorenz Hilty on the topic of power consumption and energy efficiency of the internet.
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Rolf Pfeifer and Roboy at the "Tages-Anzeiger Forum"
Rolf Pfeifer and Roboy participated in the conference "Algorithmus - Wie nutzen wir die Big Data-Flut?" organized by the newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.
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Davide Scaramuzza on drone delivery (media coverage)
Amazon's drone delivery plan was widely covered in Swiss media:
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Article on Prof. Bernstein's MOOC in the UZH News
On the occasion of the UZH "Tag der Lehre" 2013 Prof. Abraham Bernstein gave a lecture on his experiences with the Massive Open Online Course "Informatik für Ökonomen".
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New Collaboration with Zhejiang University and Alibaba
We are happy to announce a new collaboration between the University of Zurich, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) and the Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, China). On November 11th, the new "Interdisciplinary Research Lab on Service, Economics, Management and Compution (SEMCom)" was opened at Zhejiang University in China. The primary goal of this new collaboration is to enable interdisciplinary research collaborations on topics related to service computing, electronic market design, and e-commerce. More...
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Robotics and Perception Group on arte X:enius
A videoon drones developed by Davide Scaramuzza and his team of the Robotics and Perception Group was featured on arte TV's science program X:enius.
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The online professor: Two interviews with Abraham Bernstein on Swiss radio SRF
href="http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people/bernstein.html">Abraham Bernsteingave two interviews on the recent start of his online lecture "Informatik für Ökonomen"on Coursera.org. One was featured in the SRF news program "Heute morgen"(it starts at 6:18), the second in SRF's regional news
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Magazine article on the development of an artificial human hand
Articlein the Swiss magazine "Der Beobachter" (in German):
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Five IfI Master Students in Stanford
Five IfI master students particiapted in the global SUGAR course at the d.school of Stanford University.
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IfI an der tunZürich.ch
Das Institut für Informatik hat an der tunZürich.ch teilgenommen. Die Erlebnisschau hat die Nachwuchsförderung in Technik und Naturwissenschaften zum Ziel.
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New SNF-Grants for IfI
This year IfI has been very successful in acquiring SNF funding for new projects:
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Prof. Pfeifer's talk at TEDxZurich
"How the body shapes the way we think – a new view of intelligence"
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Magazine article on Roboy and other humanoid robots
The Austrian magazine "Terra Mater" covers the topic of humanoid robots in its current issue
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Prof. Scaramuzza's research on drones featured in "Die Zeit"
The German newspaper "Die Zeit" features an article about Prof. Scaramuzza's research on drones
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Environmental Informatics Students' Award for IFI Master students
Stefan Badertscher and David Oertle won the 2nd prize of the Environmental Informatics Students' Award 2013 for their development of a system supporting company-internal cap-and-trade of CO2 emission permits.
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Abraham Bernstein teaches first UZH MOOC (Swiss TV news and newspaper article)
The assessment course "Informatik für Ökonomen 1" will be available on Coursera.org to students and to the general public as of October 2013.
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CTI Research project "PainHawk" launches CatchMyPain iPhone app
The IFI spin-off Sanovation AGis working together with the SEALgroup and the Clinics of Valenson an electronic pain diary. The diary will help to treat chronic pain patients more efficiently.
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Abraham Bernstein Interviewed in the Swiss Daily Newspapers "Tages-Anzeiger" and "Der Bund"
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery is increasingly of public interest. In the context of the recent discussions about the data gathering by the US NSA and the British GCHQ, the Swiss Daily newspapers "Tages-Anzeiger" and "Der Bund" decided to interview Abraham Bernstein to explain the very basics of large-scale Data Analysis.
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Lorenz Hilty on "beaming" and virtual reality (Einstein TV series)
Filmed at the IFI AI Lab, Lorenz Hilty talks about "beaming" and virtual reality, in connection with an ongoing ETH research project
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Interview with Rolf Pfeifer in Tages-Anzeiger
"Rolf Pfeifer, the developper of 'Roboy'talks about artificial intelligence": Supplement to Tages-Anzeiger "Ingenieurwesen" (pp. 8-9), May 24, 2013
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Rico Sennrich wins 2013 Mercator Award
Rico Sennrichwins 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.
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A documentary about Prof. Scaramuzza's research on vision-controlled autonomous micro helicopters for search and rescue operations by the Swiss French television RTS
Articleon RTS.ch: "Des drones pour sauver des vies"
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Sven Seuken wins Google Faculty Research Award
Sven Seukenwins 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...
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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.
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Der Spion vor deinem Fenster
Article about Davide Scaramuzza research in the Weltwoche Magazine Nr. 9.13
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Article on Connected TV
In its article on Connected TV, Alpha Galileo covers Vista-TV, a project coordinated by Prof. Abraham Bernstein.
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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.
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Roboy in the press
Press clippings about Roboy, the humanoid Robot currently under construction at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich.