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UZH joins Hugging Face’s Academia Hub
Giorgia Ramponi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, brings her Reinforcement …
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Dan Olteanu named 2025 ACM Distinguished Member
Great news: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Prof. Dr. Dan Olteanu, who …
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Dan Stokesberry Award for Burkhard Stiller
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller has been awarded the “Dan Stokesberry Award” in May 2025 during the …
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Database Theory Test of Time Award
The International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) presented the Test of Time Award 2026 to …
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In the media: Blockchain – from hype to design
Claudio Tessone shares insights on how the future of blockchain and crypto will rely on economic …
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SNSF Starting Grant for Giorgia Ramponi
Giorgia Ramponi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics since 2024, has received a …
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The impact of open access publishing
André Meyer reflects with UZH Bibliothek on the practical impact of archiving research articles on …
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EU HORIZON Grant for “CRYPTOACTION”
Claudio Tessone, as part of a consortium with 16 partners and 2 associated organizations, has …
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Semester Award for Tarek Alakmeh
Tarek Alakmeh has been awarded a Semester Award for his outstanding Master’s Thesis “Decoding a …
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Pooja Rani appointed to Professorship in Mannheim
We are delighted to congratulate our IfI postdoc Pooja Rani on her next career step.
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Semester Award for Kevin Bründler
Kevin Bründler has been awarded a Semester Award for his outstanding Master’s Thesis “Exploring …
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AI in Focus: From trust to the future of work
Abraham Bernstein researches with both a technical and a social science approach to understand the …
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Women in Informatics Network Zurich founded
The →Women in Informatics Network Zurich (WINZ) ACM-W Student Chapter was founded on 29 …
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Killer-Drohnen sollten jetzt schon verboten werden
In diesem Interview mit dem Tages-Anzeiger warnt Davide Scaramuzza, Leiter der Robotics and …
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Giorgia Ramponi: Top 100+ Women in AI & Data – Switzerland 2025
Congratulations! Giorgia Ramponi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, has been …
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In the media: "A picture says more than a thousand words"
With numbers and algorithms, Renato Pajarola creates impressive visualizations that reveal hidden …
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OCAM – Runner-up Best Paper Award at Eurographics Computer Graphics & Visual Computing Conference
Congratulations! The paper “OCAM: Occlusion-aware Completeness via Coverage Analysis with Monte …
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Tülin Kaman: Verena Meyer Visiting Professor at the Department of Informatics (Fall 2025 – Spring 2026)
We warmly welcome Tülin Kaman, who will be offering her lectures at the Department of …
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TrailView – Best Paper Award at Web3D 2025
Congratulations! The paper "TrailView: An Interactive 3D Hike Planning Tool" by Julian A. Croci, …
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Promotion of Prof. Anikó Hannák
As of 1 September 2025, Prof. Anikó Hannák has taken up the position as associate professor of …
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UZH Innovation Grant awarded for GeoFoundation Startup Initiative
Congratulations to Kilian Sprenkamp, PhD student at the Information Management Research Group and …
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HEC Lausanne (UNIL), the University of Zurich (UZH) and UNHCR join forces to meet the needs of refugees
As soon as they arrive in a host country, refugees face urgent questions: how to access …
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Lena Jäger takes over dual Professorship
Lena Jäger, Head of Digital Linguistics at the Department of Computational Linguistics (CL), will …
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SDG Impact Award 2025 for Maya Guido
Congratulations! Maya Guido was awarded the SDG Impact Award at the Faculty of Business, Economics …
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SDG Impact Award 2025 for Dario Stähelin
Dario Stähelin was honored with the SDG Impact Award at the Faculty of Business, Economics and …
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Adaptive political questionnaires for voting advice applications
In collaboration with Smartvote, Abraham Bernstein and his PhD student Fynn Bachmann have …
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Best Paper Award for IVDA at EuroVA 2025
The paper “A Design Space for the Critical Validation of LLM-Generated Tabular Data” …
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ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for Pavlina Wurzel Gonçalves, Pooja Rani and Alberto Bacchelli
Congratulations! The paper «Code Review Comprehension: Reviewing Strategies Seen Through Code …
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Sven Seuken: new journey
Sven Seuken, Head of the Computation and Economics Research Group, leaves the Department of …
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New podcast episode: Flow instead of frustration
In this DIZH-podcast episode, André Meyer talks about how we get into flow – a state of deep …
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SIGMOD Research Awards for Project on Cardinality Estimation
A recent breakthrough on the longstanding problem of cardinality estimation in database systems …
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Alexandra Diehl becomes Associate Professor
We are delighted to congratulate our IfI postdoc Alexandra Diehl on her next career step.
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Best Paper Award (2nd Runner Up) for Aleksandra Garazha, Cédric Merz, Gerhard Schwabe and Liudmila Zavolokina at ICIS 2024
Congratulations! The paper «Resilience in Times of Crisis: Empowering Refugees with Self-Sovereign …
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FAN Award for Stefania Ionescu
Stefania Ionescu receives one of this year’s FAN Awards for her dissertation «Society as a …
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UZH Mentoring Award for Anikó Hannák
Anikó Hannák receives one of this year’s UZH Mentoring Awards. Congratulations!
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Was können Roboter?
Davide Scaramuzza spricht darüber, warum uns humanoide Roboter so faszinieren und weshalb es noch …
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Ivan De Oliveira Nunes becomes Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
As of 1 February 2025, Ivan De Oliveira Nunes joins the Department of Informatics as tenure-track …
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Two-year project «FlowTeams» receives DIZH Founder Grant
André Meyer, in collaboration with Thomas Fritz, has received funding from the DIZH for their …
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Drone technology on Mars
Davide Scaramuzza is collaborating with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the 2030 Mars …
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UZH Innovation Grant for Atomic
Atomic, a Task and Note Taking System, has been selected for the UZH Innovation Grant. …
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DSI Health Innovathon
Clara-Maria Barth, a PhD student at the Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group and People and …
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Semester Award for Paul Ferdinand Safari
Paul Ferdinand Safari has been awarded an FS2024 Semester Award for his outstanding Bachelor’s …
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ICWSM 2024: Best Paper Honorable Mention
The paper «Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search's Market Shares Under Vertical …
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Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship for Konstantinos Kitsios
Konstantinos Kitsios from the Zurich Empirical Software Engineering Team receives one of this …
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Bigger brains thanks to longer childhood
Christopher P.E. Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce de León, former researchers at the Department of …
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Was Algorithmen mit einer funktionierenden Demokratie zu tun haben
Abraham Bernstein erklärt im DSI Spotlight, wie Algorithmen die Meinungsbildung positiv …
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Cybathlon Jury Award for Sight Guide's assistance system
Congratulations! Davide Scaramuzza and his team have been awarded the Jury Award at the Cybathlon …
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Inaugural lecture by Giorgia Ramponi
Giorgia Ramponi investigates reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multi-agent systems, …
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Teamwork mit Menschen und Maschinen
Wie könnte sich die Arbeitswelt durch die Anwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) verändern? …
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SNF Project Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Mennatallah El-Assady
Congratulations! Jürgen Bernard, together with Mennatallah El-Assady from ETH Zürich, has been …
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Mit Köpfchen und KI
Wie wird in Zukunft unsere Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) aussehen? Wie lassen …
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DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Viktor von Wyl
Jürgen Bernard and Viktor von Wyl receive a DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant from the UZH …
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Best Reviewer Award to Manuel Günther
Manuel Günther receives the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics’ Best Reviewer Award …
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KI in Bildung und Forschung
Wie können und sollten Hochschulen mit der raschen Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) …
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Semester Award for Simon Klaassen
Simon Klaassen has been awarded an HS23 Semester Award for his outstanding Bachelor's thesis, …
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Semester Award for Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin
Ann-Kathrin Kübler, Hannah Rohe and Joël Inglin have been awarded an HS23 Semester Award for their …
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DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for André Meyer, Malte Döhne and Thomas Fritz
The Digital Device Use Self-monitoring Platform (D2USP) establishes an infrastructure for research …
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Semester Award for Kexin Shi
Kexin Shi has been awarded a HS23 Semester Award for her outstanding Master's thesis, entitled …
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European PhD Award for Elia Kaufmann
Davide Scaramuzza's former PhD student Elia Kaufmann has been awarded the prestigious European PhD …
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Collegium Helveticum fellowship for Francesco Sovrano
Francesco Sovrano from Zurich Empirical Software engineering Team receives an Early-Career …
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Abschiedsvorlesung von Lorenz Hilty
Ende Juli 2024 wird Lorenz Hilty, Professor am Institut für Informatik IfI der Universität Zürich …
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Bio-Inspired Cameras and AI Help Drivers Detect Pedestrians and Obstacles Faster
Recognizing obstacles – especially pedestrians – quickly and reliably is crucial for any …
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Tarek Alakmeh gewinnt den Engagement Award 2024
An der Promotionsfeier der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät konnte das Publikum wählen, wer …
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Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Seit 2010 ist Lorenz Hilty Professor am Institut für Informatik IfI der Universität Zürich UZH. …
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IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award to Davide Scaramuzza
Congratulations! Davide Scaramuzza has been awarded the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award during the …
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ACM Gems of PODS talk by Dan Olteanu
Dan Olteanu will deliver the Gems of PODS talk at the PODS 2024 conference to be held in Santiago, …
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Daniel Gehrig receives UZH Annual Award for his PhD thesis
Congratulations to our former PhD student Daniel Gehrig for receiving the prestigious UZH Annual …
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Podcast: Paradigmen der Informatik – grosse Fragen und kleine Revolutionen einfach erklärt
Im Podcast «Paradigmen der Informatik» diskutieren Bachelorstudierende fundamentale Fragen …
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DIZH outreach grant for André Meyer
André Meyer and his team at UZH and USZ won a DIZH outreach grant for their research …
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Mining Coins
Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrency were created to overcome the monopoly of money. But what …
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Prof. Dr. Giorgia Ramponi joins our Department of Informatics
As of 1 February 2024, Giorgia Ramponi joins IfI as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Artificial …
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50 Jahre Institut für Informatik
2023 feierte das Institut für Informatik sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Genau genommen ist das IfI …
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ICWSM 2023: Best Paper Award
The paper «Google the Gatekeeper: How Search Components Affect Clicks and Attention» by …
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Smartwatch app «MindfulPacer» helps Long Covid patients
André Meyer-Baron and Carlo Cervia-Hasler developed «MindfulPacer» and were recently awarded with …
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Best Paper Award for Davide Scaramuzza’s lab at IROS 2023
Congratulations! The paper “Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware …
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Dan Olteanu named PVLDB Distinguished Associate Editor
Dan Olteanu is honoured as Distinguished Associate Editor at Very Large Data Base (VLDB) 2023 for …
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Digitising the environmental paradigm
On 19 September 2023, Lorenz Hilty gave a keynote in the Lecture Series «Making Sense of the …
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AI Drone beats Human World Champions
It is the first time that an autonomous mobile robot has beaten human champions in a real physical …
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Scientifica 2023
At Switzerland's largest science festival, you will experience a week of research and science in …
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DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for Jürgen Bernard: SDG Research Scout
Jürgen Bernard has received a DSI Infrastructure & Lab grant. Together with the teams of …
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Ning Wang receives a FAN Fellowship
Ning Wang joined recently the Informatics and Sustainability Research Group. She receives one of …
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Honorary Fellow Award an Lorenz Hilty
Die ICT4S Community hat auf ihrer Jahreskonferenz in Rennes, Frankreich, den ersten Honorary …
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In den Medien: New Work und FlowTeams
Um eine gute Produktivität und ein hohes Wohlbefinden zu erreichen, benötigen …
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Damaris Schmid hat den Engagement Award gewonnen
Damaris Schmid wurde an der Promotionsfeier der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät mit dem …
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The Carbon Footprint of Smartphones
The carbon footprint of smartphones is largely underestimated, as the focus has been mainly on the …
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Inaugural lecture by Dan Olteanu
Dan Olteanu investigates the principles behind computational challenges for data processing and …
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Digitalisierung neu denken und umsetzen
Die weltweite Mehrfachkrise wirft Fragen nach einem grundlegenden Veränderungsprozess auf. Dabei …
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Two-year project "Government as a Platform" receives DIZH funding and opens two PhD positions
Liudmila Zavolokina, in collaboration with Gerhard Schwabe and Gianluca Miscione, has received …
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A new testing facility at Dübendorf Airport for drones
LINA, the new testing facility, is unique in Europe. It was realised thanks to the …
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In den Medien: So verändert ChatGPT die Bildungs- und Berufswelt
Martin Volk spricht unter anderem darüber, wie ChatGPT das Schreiben von Seminararbeiten …
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In the media: Ethical issues with AI
Robotics researcher Davide Scaramuzza warns about deadly consequences of using drones and …
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Best Paper Award for Liudmila Zavolokina, Kilian Sprenkamp and Birgit Schenk
Congratulations! The paper «Citizens' Expectations about Achieving Public Value and the Role …
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In the media: Robotics stories
The autonomous drone race by the Robotics and Perception Group is one of the top 10 robotics …
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SNF Sinergia grant for Abraham Bernstein
Abraham Bernstein has received, together with partners from the University of Zurich and the …
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In the media: Autonomous drones
Robotics researcher Davide Scaramuzza speaks about the petition on militarian drones.
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UZH: Europe's best University in Blockchain (3rd worldwide)
Thanks to the Blockchain Center, the University of Zurich ranks third in this year's Blockchain …
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Burkhard Stiller receives LCN Lifetime Achievement Award
At the 47th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) in Edmonton, Canada, Prof. Dr. …
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Inaugural lecture by Alberto Bacchelli
Alberto Bacchelli pursues with his research the goal to make developers more effective and to …
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Study on digital products and climate protection
A new study looks at the positive and negative climate effects of digital products and services.
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Burkhard Stiller appointed new Director of the Department of Informatics IfI
The University of Zurich UZH has appointed Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller as new Director of the …
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GoodBrother International Conference on Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society
Anton Fedosov, a postdoctoral researcher at the People and Computing Lab at IfI, co-organized …
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Georges Giralt PhD Award for Antonio Loquercio
Davide Scaramuzza’s former PhD student Antonio Loquercio won the Georges Giralt PhD Award at the …
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DIZH Rapid Action Grant for Gerhard Schwabe and Liudmila Zavolokina
The DIZH (Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions) supports four …
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Congratulations for the Semester Award HS21
Maximilian Böker has been awarded a HS2021 Semester Award for his BSc thesis, entitled «An …
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In memoriam: Honorary Doctor Prof. Gordon B. Davis
Gordon B. Davis passed away on 6 May 2022 at the age of 91. He received the Honorary Doctorate of …
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Dan Olteanu wins Test of Time Award
The International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) presented the Test of Time Award …
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Informatiktage 2022
Die sechste Ausgabe der Informatiktage ging erfolgreich über die Bühne. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem …
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Replicability Stamp Award
The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative has awarded the paper «Visualizing Graph Neural …
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Der 11. Februar ist der «Internationale Tag von Frauen und Mädchen in der Wissenschaft» der …
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DIZH Rapid Action Grant for André Meyer
André Meyer won a DIZH Rapid action grant for his research project «FlowLight». The DIZH …
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In the media: The event camera
According to Davide Scaramuzza event cameras are about 40 times as efficient as …
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Informationskrise und Pandemie
Die Pandemie stellt Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur auf die Probe. Was kann man aus den bisherigen …
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In den Medien: TV oder Handy – Wie schneidet Streaming in der CO2-Bilanz ab?
Im digitalen SRF-Umwelt und Klimaformat «SRF CO2ntrol» erklärt Lorenz Hilty, wie wir den …
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Best Paper Award for Jürgen Bernard
Jürgen Bernard has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vis Conference 2021 for an …
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Horizonte: Gleiche Information, andere Schlussfolgerung
Haben Status, Geschlecht oder Hautfarbe einen Einfluss auf Redezeit und Teilnahme?
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Congratulations for the Semester Award FS21
Janosch Baltensperger has been awarded for his BSc thesis, entitled «Continuous Deep …
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ESEC/FSE 2021 Test of Time Award: Don’t touch my code!
Congratulations! The paper Don’t touch my code! examining the effects of ownership on software …
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SNF grant for Harald Gall and Pasquale Salza: Machine Learning Assisted Software Development
Congratulations! Harald Gall and Pasquale Salza have been granted SNF funding for their project …
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Professur für Ingo Scholtes in Würzburg
Ingo Scholtes, SNF-Professor für Data Analytics am IfI, ist einem Ruf an die …
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SNF grant for Alberto Bacchelli: Software Engineers as Quality Experts
Congratulations! Alberto Bacchelli, together with two co-applicants from Delft University of …
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Blockchain: UZH Best in Europe, 4th Worldwide
Thanks to the Blockchain Center, the University of Zurich is on the fourth place in a ranking of …
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Flying High-Speed Drones with AI
In a recent study published in Science Robotics, Davide Scaramuzza and his team trained an …
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SNF Ambizione grant for Luca Rossetto
Luca Rossetto from the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group receives the Ambizione …
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Claudio Tessone becomes Professor for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
As of 1st August 2021 the Board of the University has appointed Claudio Tessone as Associate …
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Drohne besiegt Profi-Drohnenpiloten
Der neu entwickelte Algorithmus von Davide Scramuzzas Forschungsteam lässt eine Drohne …
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EuroVis 2021 Young Researcher Award to Jürgen Bernard
Jürgen Bernard has received the EuroVis 2021 Young Researcher Award “in recognition of his …
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Home Office und Klimaschutz
Jan Bieser hat sich in seiner Dissertation mit Umweltaspekten von Home Office und Co-Working …
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Herzliche Gratulation zum Abschluss
Wir gratulieren allen Absolventinnen und Absolventen und wünschen viel Erfolg für die Zukunft!
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Second place Award at ACM CHI 2021 conference
Natalia Obukhova, a master's student from IfI, receives the second place award from the Student …
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DIZH postdoc fellowship for Liudmila Zavolokina
Liudmila Zavolokina won one of four highly competitive DIZH postdoc fellowships for her …
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Congratulations for the Semester Award HS20
Thomas Mannhart has been awarded a HS2020 Semester Award for his BSc thesis, …
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Zichao Zhang receives the Annual Award from the Faculty of Business and Economics
The Annual Award 2021 goes to Zichao Zhang for his dissertation «Active Robot …
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Developing autonomous drones for space missions
The research of the Robotics and Perception Group inspired the design of the drone technology …
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Sharing Economy Communities and Their Supporting Technologies
Anton Fedosov has been invited to participate in the Sharing and Caring podcast series. In the …
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SNF Sinergia grant for Renato Pajarola
Renato Pajarola has received, together with partners from the EPFL and the University of …
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UZH-Startup-Label für PolygonSoftware
Die UZH-Informatikstudenten Joel Barmettler, Marius Högger und Frank Huber gründeten vor zwei …
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Informatiktage 2021
Die Informatiktage gehen in die sechste Runde. Dieses Jahr stehen Schulklassen und Lehrpersonen im …
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Wie Drohnen absturzsicher werden
Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza zeigt, wie eine Drohne vor dem Absturz bewahrt …
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Herzliche Gratulation zum Abschluss
Wir wünschen allen Absolventinnen und Absolventen viel Erfolg für die Zukunft!
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Schweizer Digitaltage 2020
Abraham Bernstein und Lorenz Hilty haben an den Schweizer Digitaltagen 2020 teilgenommen.
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Erfolgreicher Start für Forschungsprogramm «Digitale Transformation»
«Das Nationale Forschungsprogramm «Digitale Transformation» (NFP-77) unter der Leitung von …
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Teachers of the Hour 2020
Michael Böhlen, Renato Pajarola und Sven Seuken wurden als "Teachers of the Hour" nominiert. …
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In den Medien: Digitales Treibhaus
Der Anteil der Digitalisierung an den globalen Treibhausemissionen wird zwischen einem und drei …
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Unirat der Universität Luzern
Abraham Bernstein wurde vom Regierungsrat des Kantons Luzern zum neuen Mitglied des …
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Study on 5G and climate protection
Together with Empa, Swisscom and Swisscleantech, the ISR Group has published a study on the …
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SNF project grant for Alberto Bacchelli
Congratulations! Alberto Bacchelli has received a SNF grant for the project «Enhanced …
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WEF Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow
Jan Bieser has been nominated Fellow of the «Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow» …
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Alberto Bacchelli Associate Professor ad personam for Empirical Software Engineering
As of 21 September 2020 the Board of the University has appointed Alberto Bacchelli …
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Data Science und Sozialwissenschaften - Eine Geschichte voller Missverständnisse
Ingo Scholtes war Keynote Speaker an der Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Fachdidaktik.
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Keynote at the Very Large Data Bases 2020 Conference
Dan Olteanu was keynote speaker at VLDB (Very Large Data Bases 2020). VLDB is a premier …
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Jürgen Bernard becomes Assistant Professor for Interacting with Data
As of 1 September 2020 the Board of the University has appointed Jürgen Bernard as Assistant …
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Die Wissenschaft der Komplexität
In «ada», dem Magazin zur digitalen Transformation, spricht Ingo Scholtes über die …
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SNF project grant for Anikó Hannák
Anikó Hannák has received, together with Frank Esser, Sina Blassnig, and Claes de …
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Soziologie und Informatik
Im Data Science-Podcast «The Erium» spricht Ingo Scholtes über die Schnittstellen …
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Covid-19 und die Digitale Gesellschaft
Ein Gespräch mit Abraham Bernstein, Professor für Informatik und Direktor der Digital Society …
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Drohnen lernen akrobatisches Manöver
Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza hat einen neuartigen Quadrokopter entwickelt.
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Manuel Günther becomes Assistant Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
As of 1 July 2020 the Board of the University has appointed Manuel Günther as Assistant Professor …
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Klimaschutz durch digitale Technologien
Die Forschungsgruppe «Informatik und Nachhaltigkeit» des IfI hat mit dem …
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In den Medien: Daten nutzen, denn Daten nützen
Wie können Personendaten im Kampf gegen Covid-19 genutzt werden – ohne dass dabei Nachteile …
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Dan Olteanu becomes Professor for Big Data Science
As of 1 May 2020 the Board of the University has appointed Dan Olteanu as Professor for …
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Wenn Algorithmen für uns entscheiden
Im Umgang mit künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) empfiehlt die neue TA-Swiss Studie klare …
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KurzarbeitGoesDigital und CrowdvsCovid
Rosni Kottekulam Vasu und Florian Ruosch haben mit über 4600 Personen am …
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Early Postdoc.Mobility-Stipendien
Steffen Schuldenzucker und Gianluca Brero haben je ein SNF-Early PostDoc.Mobility-Stipendium …
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In den Medien: Die faltbare Drohne
Die ideale Drohne gemäss Davide Scaramuzza unterstützt bei einem Erdbeben Feuerwehr …
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In den Medien: Flinke Drohne
Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza verkürzt die Reaktionszeit von Drohnen. Dank spezieller …
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Is sharing research on Github enough?
A recently-awarded paper by Chat Wacharamanotham, Lukas Eisenring, Steve Haroz and …
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Peter Stucki, 1937–2020
The University of Zurich and the Department of Informatics mourn the loss ofProf. Dr. Peter …
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Im UZH Magazin: Nicht weniger Arbeit, aber andere
Abraham Bernstein, Professor für Informatik und Direktor der Digital Society Initiative, …
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Im UZH Magazin: Das verborgene Leben der Algorithmen
Anikó Hannák ist Assistenzprofessorin für Social Computing. Sie erforscht, ob …
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Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award for Alberto Bacchelli
Alberto Bacchelli, SNF Professor at the Department of Informatics, has been awarded for his …
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Im UZH Magazin: Wie Märkte klüger werden
Der Informatikprofessor Sven Seuken hat sich auf das Design und die Analyse von …
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Kantonsrat unterstützt DIZH
Die Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen kann mit einer Summe von 300 Millionen …
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Abraham Bernstein appointed as SATW member
Abraham Bernstein, Professor at the Department of Informatics, has been appointed as an individual …
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AUSFALL WEGEN COVID-19 Informatiktage 2020
AUSFALL WEGEN COVID-19 Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation bezüglich COVID-19 müssen wir leider …
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzza, Professor at the Department of Informatics, wins a Consolidator Grant by …
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Herzliche Gratulation zum Abschluss
Wir wünschen allen Absolventinnen und Absolventen viel Erfolg für die Zukunft!
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Silber am internationalen Drohnenrennen
Wir gratulieren Davide Scaramuzza und seinem Forschungsteam zum 2. Platz am internationalen …
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In den Medien: Wenn der Drucker verkündet, dass die Patronen leer sind
Immer wieder passiert es, dass eigentlich gut funktionierende Hardware durch Software entwertet …
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Farewell, Beat!
After about 33 years of supporting IfI professors, employees, and students, Beat Rageth started a …
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FS2019 Semester Award for Master Thesis
Matthias Felix has been awarded a FS2019 Semester Award for his MSc thesis, entitled «Social …
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FS2019 Semester Award for Bachelor Thesis
Valérie Erb has been awarded a FS2019 Semester Award for her BSc thesis, entitled «Physio-Coac…
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In den Medien: Die faltbare Drohne
Davide Falanga und Kevin Kleber zeigen, wie sie am Prototyp der weltweit ersten faltbaren Drohne …
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Aniko Hannak becomes Assistant Professor for Social Computing
Aniko Hannak will formally start her professorship January 1, 2020, but joins IfI November 1, …
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Zurich meets Seoul
UZH is partner at the festival «Zurich meets Seoul» with events on «Zurich and …
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In den Medien: Chancen für smarten Umweltschutz
Es gibt drei Bereiche, erklärt Lorenz Hilty, in denen die Chancen der Digitalisierung überwiegen, …
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Abraham Bernstein: Digital Shaper 2019
Abraham Bernstein, Professor am Institut für Informatik und Gründer der Digital Society Initiative …
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SNF Ambizione grant for Fabio Palomba
Our society runs on software: Ranging from financial transactions to health treatments, and more, …
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Semesterstart 16.9.2019
Das Herbstsemester 2019 beginnt am Montag, 16. September 2019.
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Inaugural lecture by Ingo Scholtes
On September 16, Ingo Scholtes will discuss challenges in the analysis of temporal data on social, …
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In den Medien: Wie klimaschädigend ist Videostreaming wirklich?
Videostreaming sei so klimaschädigend wie Flugreisen – das ist eine weitverbreitete Annahme. Aber …
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Master's programs: Application is now open
Join one of our Master's programs in Informatics.
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In den Medien: Drohnenrennen in den USA
Das Team von Davide Scaramuzza spielt in der Forschung zu autonom fliegenden Drohnen weltweit an …
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Winners of Search & Rescue Challenge
Manasi Muglikar from the Robotics and Perception Group and her team won the …
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Lorenz Hilty im Unirat der Universität Konstanz
Der Senat der Universität Konstanz hat Lorenz Hilty neu als Mitglied in den Universitätsrat …
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Martin Volk übernimmt Doppelprofessur am Institut für Informatik
Martin Volk, Leiter des Instituts für Computerlinguistik (CL), wird seine Vorlesungen ab …
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ESEC/FSE 2019: Test of Time Award goes twice to the Department of Informatics
Congratulations for «Cross-project Defect Prediction: A Large Scale Experiment on Data vs. …
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DESRIST 2019: Best Paper Award 2019
The Vinton Cerf Best Paper Award goes to Liudmila Zavolokina, Noah Zani, and Gerhard Schwabe …
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Wettkampf der weltbesten Drohnenteams
Davide Scaramuzza und sein Forschungsteam hat sich qualifiziert für das …
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FOSS Impact Award
A special mention at the leading Software Engineering Conference MSR 2019 goes to Christoph Gote …
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Herzliche Gratulation zum Abschluss
Wir gratulieren allen Absolventinnen und Absolventen und wünschen viel Erfolg für …
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Innovation: UZH auf Platz 9
Die Universität Zürich zählt zu den innovativsten Universitäten Europas.
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CHI 2019: Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award at the CHI 2019 in Glasgow (UK) goes to Alexander Eiselmayer, Chat …
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Ehrendoktortitel für Prof. Kathleen M. Carley
Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Zürich hat den Ehrendoktortitel an …
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UZH-Lehrpreis für Chat Wacharamanotham
Chat Wacharamanotham ist seit Juni 2016 UZH-Professor für Interaction Design bzw. Human Computer …
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Alumni Award für Alain Gut
UZH Alumni stiftet erstmals den Alumni Award. Der Preis geht an Alain Gut. Herzliche …
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Master's programs: Apply by 30 April 2019
Join one of our Master's programs in Informatics. And do not forget to apply by 30 April 2019.
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Drone Hero Europe 2019
Davide Falanga and Kevin Kleber from the Robotics and Perception Group won the Innovative Drone …
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In the media: Are faster drones possible?
The camera-based perception is the greatest challenge of autonomous drone flight.
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In den Medien: E-Voting
Burkhard Stiller spricht über das E-Voting-System.
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cardossier-Community gründet Verein
Am 5. März 2019 wurde in Zürich der Verein cardossier gegründet. Der Verein entwickelt, …
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In den Medien: Blockchain verstehen
Gerhard Schwabe stellt in der SRF-Sendung «Einstein» das Cardossier-Projekt vor.
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Computergestützte Ansätze für das Fach Filmwissenschaften
Mit der am Institut für Informatik entwickelten Software VIAN werden Filme analysiert, …
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HICSS 2019 und ICIS 2018: Erfolg für Blockchain-Paper
Auf der Konferenz HICSS 2019 und auf der Konferenz ICIS 2018 wurden drei …
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In den Medien: Die Stimme verstellen bringt nichts
Phonetik-Professor Volker Dellwo vom Institut für Computerlinguistik gibt einen Einblick in die …
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In the media: Drone in Rescue Missions
Researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and the …
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BSc, MSc, and PhD Graduations 🎓
The Department of Informatics congratulates its 10 Bachelor, 25 Master, and 8 PhD students to …
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Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung
Im Auftrag des Bundesrats schreibt der Schweizerische Nationalfonds das Nationale …
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In den Medien: Der digitale Wandel in der Schweiz
Abraham Bernstein hat als Gast den SRF-Themenabend «Dataland» begleitet.
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Keynote an der Bits & Bäume-Konferenz
Lorenz Hilty war Keynote Speaker an der Bits & Bäume-Konferenz in Berlin. Seine Hauptthese: …
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Visual Computing ACM-Lectures available
Renato Pajarola has been appointed as a Distinguished Speaker for the Association for Computing …
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In den Medien: UZH-Fokus auf Digitalisierung
Die UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI) wurde vor zwei Jahren vom Informatik-Professor Abraham …
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Four Open Professorships
We are hiring! These four professorships are currently available at the Department of Informatics: …
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In den Medien: Die Verlässlichkeit von Wikidata und Wikipedia
Über die Mechanismen und Tools der Wikimedia-Projekte spricht Cristina Sarasua im Interview.
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EnviroInfo 2018: Best Paper Award
Maria J. Pouri, PhD student at the Department of Informatics and her supervisor Lorenz Hilty, got …
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Burkhard Stiller: Member of Scientific Council in Luxembourg
The Luxemburg National Research Fund (FNR) is the main funder of research activities in …
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H2020-MSCA-ITN Grant for Renato Pajarola's EU-Project EVOCATION
Renato Pajarola, Chairman of the Department of Informatics, wins a substantial funding for …
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«100 Ways of Thinking» mit Davide Scaramuzzas Drohnen
Anlässlich der Langen Nacht der Zürcher Museen am 1. September 2018 zeigt Davide Scaramuzza zwei …
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Renato Pajarola appointed new Chairman of the Department of Informatics
The University of Zurich has appointed Renato Pajarola as new Chairman of the Department of …
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In den Medien: Drohnen in Katastrophengebieten
Davide Scaramuzza und sein Forschungsteam entwickelt autonom fliegende Drohnen.
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Welche Auswirkung hat künstliche Intelligenz auf die Gesellschaft?
Im Auftrag der Stiftung TA-Swiss arbeiten drei Institutionen zusammen, um die Herausforderungen …
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ERC Starting Grant for Sven Seuken
Sven Seuken, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, wins a starting grant by …
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In den Medien: Renn-Parcours mit Hindernissen
Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza konstruiert «sportliche» Drohnen.
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CGI 2018: 2nd Best Paper Award
Reconstructing and visualizing sharp corners of an object in a faithful way is a challenging task …
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In den Medien: Weniger Risiko beim Kauf von Gebrauchtwagen
Die Blockchain-Technologie wird viele Geschäftsfelder beeinflussen und sie transparenter und …
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UZH Research Grant for Claudio Mura
Claudio Mura has received the research grant «Forschungskredit» from the University of Zurich.
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Farewell, Enrico!
After almost 40 years of supporting IfI professors, employees, and students, Enrico Solcà started …
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PhD Summer School 2018
The IfI Summer School 2018 has a hot topic: More than 60 students from 10 countries are attending …
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Martin Glinz im Beirat von 3L Informatik
Die Verbände SwissICT und Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft haben das Joint-Venture 3L Informatik …
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Höhenflug mit Deep Learning
Die Drohnen aus Davide Scaramuzzas Robotics and Perception Group können selbständig in der Stadt …
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BSc, MSc, and PhD Graduations 🎓
The Department of Informatics congratulates its 47 Bachelor, 20 Master, and 6 PhD students for …
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Burkhard Stiller on Network Blocking in "10 vor 10"
On 10 June 2018, Swiss citizens will vote on blocking access to online gambling sites.
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REFSQ 2018 Best Paper Award
Sofija Hotomski, Eya Ben Charrada, and Martin Glinz have won the Best Paper Award at REFSQ …
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Alle müssen lernen, mit Daten umzugehen
Interview mit Abraham Bernstein zum Thema «Wie machen wir unser Bildungssystem für …
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SNSF Professorship at IfI: Ingo Scholtes
Ingo Scholtes, senior assistant and lecturer at ETH Zurich, has just been awarded a professorship …
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Wer spricht denn da? Synthetische Stimmen täuschend echt
Phonetik-Professor Volker Dellwo über die menschliche Stimme im Zeitalter der …
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Is digital democracy too risky – or the chance of a generation?
Abraham Bernstein is one of the experts discussing the chances and risks of digital democracy.
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Abraham Bernstein on Digitalization and Politics
Abraham Bernstein encourages the government to embrace digitalization also in political …
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BSc, MSc, and PhD Graduations
The Department of Informatics congratulates its 30 Bachelor, 25 Master, and 13 PhD students for …
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Thomas Fritz appointed Professor for Human-Oriented Software Engineering
Thomas Fritz has been appointed Associate Professor for Human-Oriented Software Engineering.
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Bitcoins vs. Bargeld
Wie sicher ist die Bezahlung mit Bitcoins wirklich?
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Burkhard Stiller über Blockchains
Im Rahmen der UZH Lunchveranstaltung «Digitales Marketing und digitale …
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Sven Seuken among "Top 40 under 40"
Sven Seuken was selected by the magazine Capital as one of the outstanding talents under 40 …
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Live Paper in SRF Wissen
In der Hypothekarbank Lenzburg kommt «Live Paper» zum Einsatz: Objekte der realen Welt …
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UZH Teaching Funds for ZPAC project
Each year the University of Zurich supports innovative concepts in teaching. The …
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UZH-Lehrkredit für IMRG-Projekt
Jedes Jahr schreibt die Universität Zürich einen kompetitiven Lehrkredit zur Unterstützung …
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Blockchain-based Car Dossier
Managing the history of a vehicle is useful for insurance companies, garages, used-car dealers, …
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Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab on Digital Change
The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab of the University of Zurich was established in 2016 by the …
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Das Finanzwesen im Umbruch
Am Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab der Universität Zürich dreht sich alles um die Frage: Wie lässt …
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Procivis and Communication Systems Group develop Blockchain-based e-voting solution
The Communication Systems Group and Swiss e-government startup Procivis will develop an electronic …
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Drones can almost see in the dark
A group of researchers around Davide Scaramuzza, head of the Robotics and Perception Group, have …
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Wenn Computer lügen lernen
Vom 22. bis 24. September findet in Vitznau der Salon Public statt. Unter dem Motto «Kluge Köpfe …
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Awards at RE'17 for RERG members
Apart from Martin Glinz' Most Influential Paper Award, members of the Requirements Engineering …
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Martin Glinz receives the Most Influential Paper Award at RE’17
Martin Glinz, head of the Requirements Engineering Research Group, received the Most Influential …
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BandwidthX Appoints Sven Seuken as Chief Economist
Sven Seuken, head of the Computation and Economics Research Group at IfI, has been appointed Chief …
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SNSF Professorship at IfI: Alberto Bacchelli
Alberto Bacchelli, former assistant professor at TU Delft, has joined IfI in August. He was …
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Es geht um unsere Zukunft
Die Schweiz macht digital mobil: Abraham Bernstein (Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems …
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CSG partner modum.io raises 4.2 million USD in 10 minutes
Pioneering the use of blockchain and IoT technologies in the pharmaceutical supply chain, UZH …
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Cross-disciplinary Project between the Department of Film Studies and IfI
Prof. Pajarola's research group, the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab, is supporting the ERC AdvG …
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Two New Associate Professorships at IfI
As per 1 September 2017, the Board of the University has appointed Dr. Davide Scaramuzza as …
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CAPATHITY: Simulating the Post-fossil Swiss City
The Informatics and Sustainability Research group and Empa’s Technology and Society Lab will work …
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New Study on Digitalization and Climate Protection Published
The Informatics and Sustainability Research group published a new study on “Opportunities and …
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100 Digital Shapers 2017: Die Vordenker
Das Schweizer Wirtschaftsmagazin Bilanz hat 100 Menschen zu den «Digital Shapers 2017» gekürt. …
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Globales Hirn: Interview in UZH News
Interview in den UZH News: «Die Digitalisierung beschleunigt die Wissenschaft und verändert die …
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We put the "IfI" in "Scientifica" :-)
The Department of Informatics is represented with a number of events at this year's Scientifica: …
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Thomas Puschmann appointed Innovation Council member
As of 1 January 2018, Innosuisse will take over the functions of the current Commission for …
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Fokus: Social Bots
Was sind Social Bots? Wie beeinflussen sie die öffentliche Meinung? Antworten gibt Abraham …
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Das Shopping der Zukunft
Wie kann maschinelles Lernen die Zukunft des Shoppings verbessern? Wie sieht es mit der Werbung …
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Kickstarting the UX/HCI Community in Thailand
Chat Wacharamanotham and his colleagues in Thailand had been awarded a funding from ACM SIGCHI …
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Informatiktage 2017 at IfI
For informatics you need full concentration, keen perception – and some perseverance, too. But in …
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Semester Award for Markus Göckeritz
DDIS student Markus Göckeritz wins the University of Zurich's Semester Award for his bachelor …
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Martin Glinz’ Farewell Lecture
In an almost fully-packed lecture hall at Binzmühlestrasse, Martin Glinz held his farewell …
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Robotics and Perception Group Wins 2017 Misha Mahowald Prize
Davide Scaramuzza's Robotics and Perception Group wins this year's Misha Mahowald Prize "for their …
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FlowLight in the New Scientist
“Can’t you see I’m busy? A desk-mounted traffic light system automatically measures how hard a …
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Timo Mennle wins 2017 Mercator Award!
Dr. Timo Mennle, who finished his PhD under Prof. Sven Seuken's supervision in 2016, won the …
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Raffaele Fabio Ciriello Assistant Professor in Copenhagen
Raffaele Fabio Ciriello from Gerd Schwabe's Information Management Research Group will soon start …
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Drone Research Media Coverage Ranks 3rd
According to an article in UZH Journal 1/2017(PDF), Davide Scaramuzza’s research on drones ranks …
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Der Mensch verliert sein Poker-Gesicht
Die Software «Libratus» von Tuomas Sandholm und Noam Brown (Carnegie Mellon University) schlägt …
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Avi Bernstein elected SNSF evaluation committee member
We are happy to announce that Abraham Bernstein was named external member of the SNSF Ambizione …
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Renato Pajarola awarded ACM Senior Membership
We are proud to announce that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently named Renato …
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Zurich Eye becomes Facebook Oculus Zurich
Zurich Eye, a project at the Wyss Translational Center Zurich, has just become part of …
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Probr wins Best Demo Award at LCN 2016
Probr, a passive WiFi tracking system developed at the Communication Systems Group, won the …
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NRP 75 application approved: PIG DATA: Health Analytics for the Swiss Swine Industry
Prof. Abraham Bernstein and Prof. John Berezowski (University of Berne) received funding from the …
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NRP 75 application approved: Privacy Preserving, Peta-scale Stream Analytics for Domain-Experts
The National Research Programme 75 “Big Data” (NRP 75) approved Profs. Michael Böhlen’s and …
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1st place for CSG-driven startup modium.io
CSG-driven start-up modum.io won 1st place in the "Future and Emerging Technologies" (FET) …
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Gerhard Schwabe appointed Fellow of the University of Siegen
Gerhard Schwabe, head of the Information Management Research Group at the Department of …
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Vertrauen in Facebook ist grösser als in jede Bank
Die Digitalisierung lässt neue Anbieter für Finanzdienstleistungen entstehen. Banken müssen ihr …
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Netzsperren sind untauglich
Internet-Sperren zum Ausschluss ausländischer Online-Spielangebote sind relativ leicht zu umgehen, …
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Digitale Genügsamkeit
Im Bericht Digitale Genügsamkeit – Nachhaltigkeit in und mit der ICT, erschienen im …
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VMML: New SNF project granted
The Swiss National Science Foundation granted VMML director Renato Pajarola a three-year project, …
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Die Bank als Teil digitaler Ökosysteme
Die branchenübergreifende Bündelung von Angeboten gewinnt auch in der Finanzwelt an …
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IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference: Lifetime Service Award for Martin Glinz
We're extremely happy to announce that Martin Glinz was honored with the prestigious Lifetime …
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UZH Digital Society Initiative
Die UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI) wurde am 14. September 2016 mit einem feierlichen Akt in …
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«Kein 1-0-1-Spiel mehr»
Vor allem im Silicon Valley entwickeln sich die grossen Technologiekonzerne immer mehr zu Staaten …
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IT-Ausbildung auf dem Prüfstand
Artikel in der Zeitschrift Computerworld Special Top 500 zum Informatik-Studium mit einem Beitrag …
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Blockchains with IoT
The UZH startup Modum.io pitched its IoT (Internet-of-Things) blockchain idea successfully at the …
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FinTech im Aufwind
Artikel zum Swiss Fintech Innovation Lab im Oec.Magazin, der Alumni-Zeitschrift der …
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Fintech und Finanzmarktregulierung
Mark Branson, Direktor der FINMA, sprach über die Regulierung von FinTech-Unternehmen in der …
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Video zu den Informatiktagen 2016
Video mit IfI-Beteiligung: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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Sustainable Informatics Presented at IT Days Zurich
Sustainability in Informatics was an important topic at the IT Days Zurich on June 3-4. Article on …
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Renato Pajarola elected Eurographics Fellow
Renato Pajarolahas been elected Eurographics Fellow 2016. The European Association for Computer …
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Blockchains for Cold Chains
The UZH startup https://modum.io pitched its blockchain idea at the ETH Entrepreneur Club and was …
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Interview with Tuomas Sandholm about Computer Poker, Kidney Exchange, and Advertising
Tuomas Sandholm is an entrepreneur and researcher who works at the intersection of computer …
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BR Johann Schneider-Ammann und IfI-Direktor Avi Bernstein
Bundespräsident Johann Schneider-Ammann und IfI-Institutsdirektor Abraham Bernstein diskutieren …
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Tuomas Sandholm receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich
On April 30, 2016, Prof. Tuomas Sandholm received an honorary doctorate from the University of …
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Impressions from Electronic Market Design Symposium
On April 30, 2016, Prof. Tuomas Sandholm received an honorary doctoratefrom the University of …
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A Question of Perception - an Interview with Davide Scaramuzza
"We are living in an exciting time, where basically we are developing new algorithms for a new …
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IfI@Minor Day MNF
Gar nicht so einfach, aus dem riesigen Angebot der Uni das richtige Nebenfach zu finden. Gut, gibt …
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Impressions of Martin Glinz' Apero
To honor Martin Glinz' achievements over the past decades as department chair and vice dean, …
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Assistant Professor for Interaction Design
As per June 1, 2016, the Board of the University has appointed Dr. Chat Wacharamanothamas …
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Swiss Fintech Innovations Association Founded
The formation of the association Swiss Fintech Innovationshas been broadly covered in the media.
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Debate on Closed Circuit TV Surveillance
The pros and cons of Closed Circuit TV surveillance are always under debate, although the …
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Die IT-Schweiz zeigt der Welt ihre Kinder
Starker Auftritt der Schweizer IT-Industrie an der weltweit grössten Computermesse. Aber auch die …
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Alexander Richter becomes professor at the IT-University of Kopenhagen
We congratulate Dr. Alexander Richteron his appointment as Associate Professor for Workplace …
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KuVS 2015 Award for the Best Bachelor Thesis Hand-over to Raphael Voellmy
Raphael Voellmy received the KuVS 2015 Award for the best Bachelor Thesis 2015 for his Thesis …
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SIGSOFT Award Winner Martin Glinz interviewed by UZH News
UZH News interviewed Martin Glinz on his newly won ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award 2016 …
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What's Fintech?
Fintech in a nutshell - explained in this video on NZZ online, featuring a short interview with …
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Martin Glinz wins the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award 2016
It is a great pleasure to announce that Martin Glinz won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service …
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New Software for Drones helps in Search for Missing Persons
A group of researchers of the University of Zurich- Davide Scaramuzzaand his Robotics and …
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Abraham Bernstein appointed new Chairman of the Department
The University of Zurichhas appointed Prof. Abraham Bernsteinas new Chairman of the Department of …
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Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab featured in the Swiss TV News "10vor10"
In this feature news videoand online by the Swiss TV news program "10vor10" Thomas Puschmann, head …
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New@IfI: Thomas Puschmann, Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab
As per February 1st, 2016, Thomas Puschmann has set up office at IfI. Thomas Puschmann is head of …
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FLAMINGO's YouTube Teaser on "What is P2P?" Just Reached Over 25 k Views!
The EU FP7 FLAMINGO NoEworks as a project on Network and Service Management aspects, for which …
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In Memoriam Klaus R. Dittrich
Klaus R. Dittrich (1950 - 2007) would have retired today
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CSG@IfI at CeBIT
UZH; is proud to present Coinblesk; at CeBIT 2016, an app developed at CSG@IfI; enabling a safe …
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Professor Lorenz Hilty receives tenure
Upon a proposal by the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics, the University Council of …
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Big Data in UZH Magazine
UZH Magazine, the science journal of the Universitiy of Zurich, addresses in its December issue …
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Computational Linguistics and an Experiment in Surveillance
Spiegel online published an article on an experiment on surveillance(in German) by Hernani …
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Continuing education: CAS with focus on „big data“ and „engineering solutions“
Das Institut für Informatik bietet ab Februar 2016 neu ein Weiterbildungsstudium an: Certificate …
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An Interview with Abraham Bernstein on Human Computation
Translating a novel in just four hours - it has been done by the start-up Kunendo. In this …
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The Cultural Adaption of Software
Whenever we decide if a software looks appealing to us, design alone is not crucial. Another key …
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Try out CoRe (Course Recommender) to plan your Fall semester 2015
All IFI students are invited to use CoRe again, IFI's Course Recommender tool that provides you …
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Social Media Unplugged
The "Moment Machine"developped by Nemanja Memarovic, Postdoc at the People and Computing Lab, and …
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Robotics and Perception Group featured in Swiss TV news "10vor10"
The Swiss Post is testing drones to be used for the transport of parcels. In this news video, RPG …
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Successful Eurographics 2015 Conference in Zürich
From May 4th to 8th, the 36th Eurographics Conference was successfully held in Zürich at …
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Aerial Drones for Transportation Services
Tages-Anzeiger online about Davide Scaramuzza'swork concerning the potential use of autonomous …
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SNF Grant for the Visualization and Multimedia Lab
The Visualization and Multimedia Lab VMML has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation …
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Forscher rüsten Drohnen zu Luftakrobaten auf
Articleon 20min.ch about the latest research of the Robotics and Perception Group (in German)
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RPG Demo at CeBIT featured on Daily Mail UK
The media got their eyes on the RPG demo at CeBIT now. Article on Daily Mail online Thank you …
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Vision-controlled Drones at CeBIT Hanover and in eZurich Newsletter
RPG'svision-controlled drones are being presented at CeBITHanover, March 16 - 20, 2015. They are …
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Davide Scaramuzza visits India's premier technology institutes
Organized by SwissNex India, Davide Scaramuzza is travelling in India from March 16 - 20, 2015. He …
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Dacuda and Volumental unveil printable 3D-selfies using Intel powered tablets using RPG's dense-3D-reconstruction software
This new application is a collaboration between the Robotics and Perception Group and the computer …
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Rosige Zeiten für gut ausgebildete Informatiker
Als Informatiker hat man gute Jobchancen - heute und in der Zukunft. Dies zeigt eine Umfrage der …
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Medienberichte zur Kooperation IfI - Stadtpolizei Zürich in der Kriminalprävention
Das berichten die Medien zum gemeinsamen Projekt des Instituts für Informatik mit der …
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Kriminalprävention: IfI kooperiert mit der Stadtpolizei Zürich
An einem Medienanlass am 16. Februar 2015 informierten die Stadtpolizei Zürich und das Institut …
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Try out CoRe, IFI's new Course Recommender tool, to find courses at UZH based on your personal preferences
All IFI students are invited to try out CoRe, a new Course Recommender tool that will give you …
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Davide Scaramuzza has been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of Dacuda AG
As per February 1, 2015, Davide Scaramuzzahas been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of …
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Sven Seuken has received a research grant from Microsoft Research
Sven Seuken has received a research grant from Microsoft Research for his project proposal …
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Basil Huber wins Fritz Kutter Award for his MSc thesis
Basil Huber, an EPFL student who did his Master's thesis at IfI in the Robotics and Perception …
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Kevin Crowston elected to the IfI Advisory Board
Professor Kevin Crowston(Syracuse University, NY, USA) has been elected to the IfI Advisory Board …
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Man vs. Machine Discussion: Abraham Bernstein at the IBM Media Talks
Thurgauer Zeitung Online covered the IBM Media Talks which took place at Kartause Ittingen this …
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IfI Bitcoin Project featured on Tages-Anzeiger online
Journalists of the online portal by the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger have tested the Bitcoin …
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Latin America Meets IfI and RPG
In the context of advancing international relations and technology transfer, the Government …
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Hello World! IfI an den UZH Studieninformationstagen
Die Studieninformationstage der Universität Zürich haben auch 2014 einen Rekord verzeichnet. 7’500 …
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Bitcoin @ Mensa Binzmühlestrasse
Students and the Communication Systems Groupdeveloped "CoinBlesk", a new and mobile Bitcoin …
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Lorenz Hilty’s book “ICT Innovations for Sustainability” is out!
“ICT Innovations for Sustainability” edited by Lorenz Hilty and Bernhard Aebischer gives a …
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Rolf Pfeifer has retired
Professor Rolf Pfeifer has retired by July 31, 2014.
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Extended Contracts for Three Assistant Professors
The University Council (Universitätsrat) has renewed the contracts of our three assistant …
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Think fast, robot: Davide Scaramuzza in the MIT News
At this year’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong Kong, Davide Scaramuzza …
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Abraham Bernstein Wins CIONET’s European Research Paper of the Year Award
Abraham Bernstein and his former PhD student Prof. Katharina Reinecke (now at the University of …
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Davide Scaramuzza wins the IEEE RAS (Robotics and Automation Society) Early Career Award
Davide Scaramuzza is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE RAS Award for his major contributions to robot …
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A 2014 Google Faculty Research Award for Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzzawon a Google Faculty Research Awardfor this year. Worldwide, only three awards …
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Three IfI PhD students win KUKA Innovation Award in worldwide competition
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, and Elias Müggler of IfI’s Robotics and Perception Grouphave …
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IfI PhD Student first woman at UZH to win a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Irina Todoran, PhD student of the Requirements Engineering Research Group, won a Google Anita Borg …
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Standing Ovations an der Abschiedsvorlesung von Rolf Pfeifer
Rolf Pfeifer, prominenter Intelligenzforscher und geistiger Vater humanoider Roboter, hielt am …
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Dank MOOC in die Top 10: Informatik für Ökonomen I ist eine der besten Vorlesungen an der UZH
Die Vorlesung “Informatik für Ökonomen I” von Prof. Abraham Bernsteinhat es zum zweiten Mal in …
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The Cloud as a Place to Store and Hide Data: IfI PhD Student's Project Featured in UZH News
Article in UZH news(in German)
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UZH, ETH, and EPFL united at CeBIT
The informatics departments of UZH, ETH, and EPFL had their first joint public appearance at the …
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Crowdsourcing Research at DDIS shown on Swiss TV
KIn the context of the Crowdsorucing effort to find the Malaysia Airlines Flight 239 airplane …
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IFI researcher Tao Li receives Chinese Government Award
Tao Li (AILab) has won the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad …
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The right career choice: Information Systems
According to Forbes, an MSc in Information Systems is number one on the list of the best master's …
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The End of Humility
But not of cuteness - if you look at Roboy, who is featured in this article on artificial …
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Are we all slaves of Artificial Intelligence?
And if so, is it really as spooky as it sounds? Decide for yourself!
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World Economic Forum 2014: possible threat by drones?
Davide Scaramuzza was interviewed in the Swiss TV program "Rundschau" on drones as a possible …
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Startup Kunendo managed by IFI members wins Venture Kick's first stage
Kunendo, a startup managed by Dr. Amancio Bouza, Damian Schärli, Patrick Minder and Prof. Abraham …
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Prof. Pajarola's PhD student Susanne Suter wins UZH Jahrespreis
Dr. Susanne K. Suter's dissertation on "Interactive Multiresolution and Multiscale Visualization …
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IfI at Silvesterlauf Zürich 2013
On December 15, Thomas Fritz and Renato Pajarola participated in Zurich's racing event …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Newspaper article on Roboy
Newspaper article on Roboyand the AILab("Höngger," October 17, 2013).
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IfI an der tunZürich.ch
Das Institut für Informatik hat an der tunZürich.ch teilgenommen. Die Erlebnisschau hat die …
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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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New SNF-Grants for IfI
This year IfI has been very successful in acquiring SNF funding for new projects:
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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' …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Rolf Pfeifer on 3sat
Documentary on Rolf Pfeifer on 3sat, June 3, 22.25
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Interview with Rolf Pfeifer in Tages-Anzeiger
"Rolf Pfeifer, the developper of 'Roboy'talks about artificial intelligence": Supplement to …
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Rico Sennrich wins 2013 Mercator Award
Rico Sennrichwins a Mercator Award for his research on "Domain-specific Statistical Machine …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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) …
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Article on Connected TV
In its article on Connected TV, Alpha Galileo covers Vista-TV, a project coordinated by Prof. …
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Interview mit Lorenz Hilty
Lorenz Hilty, Professor für Informatik an der Universität Zürich und Empa-Forscher, skizziert …
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Roboy in the press
Press clippings about Roboy, the humanoid Robot currently under construction at the Artificial …
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Best Bachelor Thesis Award in 2012
The Bachelor Thesis of the CSG student Jeton Memeti was awarded the best Bachelor Thesis in 2012 …
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First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability
IFI's Informatics and Sustainability Research Group and the ETH Energy Science Center are jointly …
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IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award
IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award
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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
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Article in Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 11, Pages 76-87: "The Challenges Ahead for Bio-Inspired …
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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 …
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Crowdlang and CrowdOS supported by SNF
CrowdLang and CrowdOS, a programming language and operating system for human and machine computers …
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CatchMyPain.com wins biggest Swiss entrepreneurship award
The start-up Sanovation AGis among the winners of this year’s W.A. de Vigier entrepreneurship …
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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 …
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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 …
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Davide Scaramuzza wins 2012 European Young Researcher Award
Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Lab is the recipient of the …
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UZH confers an honorary doctorate upon Prof. Thomas Malone
The Faculty of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Technologyof the University of …
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Programming the Global Brain published in the Communications of the ACM
The paper Programming the Global Brainby Abraham Bernstein(UZH), Mark Klein(MIT), and Thomas W. …
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Abraham Bernstein in 20 Minuten Science Pages
The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" published an article(second page; local copy) today …
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DDIS Project CrowdLang highlighted in UZH Magazin
The Current Editionof the UZH Magazinhighlights DDIS project CrowdLangwith a two page article. The …
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EU ITN on Data Intensive Visualization and Analysis (DIVA)
In collaboration with six partners from Italy, Germany, Sweden, France and Hungary, Prof. Renato …
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Interview with Prof. Bernstein in UZH News
UZH News has published an interview with Prof. Bernstein on crowdsourcing.
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Special Seminar: Open Government Data in the Cloud
On November 21 at 16:00, Mark Gayler, Open Software Evangelist atMicrosoft Corporation, is going …
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DDIS Student Katharina Reinecke wins Mercator Dissertation Award
DDISGraduate Katharina Reinecke wins the Mercator Dissertation award with her thesis "Culturally …
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Three new Assistant Professors at IfI / Drei neue Assistenzprofessuren am IfI
The University council has appointed three new assistant professors at IfI. Der Universitätsrat …
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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 …
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AIS digital library available for UZH students and researchers
IfI has negotiated full access to the AIS digital library...
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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...
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Wie der Körper das Denken prägt
Reportage über die Forschung von Prof. Rolf Pfeifer
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Manuela Züger erhält Semesterpreis der UZH
Manuela Züger hat für ihre Bachelorarbeit “Potential Use of Genetic Programming in Storm Warning...
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Registering for ETH-Modules
Ab Herbstsemester 2010 werden alle Studierenden der Universität Zürich, welche an der ETH...
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SNF Research Grant on Systems of Systems Analysis (SoSYA)
Prof. Harald Gall from the Software Evolution and Architecture Lab, in collaboration with Prof....
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SNF Research Grant on Multiscale Volume Visualization and Analysis
Prof. Renato Pajarola from the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab, in collaboration with Prof....
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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...
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"NCCR Robotics" officially approved!
National Competence Center Research (NCCR) approved
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Final list of speakers for IfI 40th anniversary symposium
We are glad to announce the final list of speakers for 40th anniversary symposium
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Bruker Biospin releases TopSpin 3.0 with DDIS Software Inside
DDIS/IfI Software inside
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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...
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Abraham Bernstein has been elected as associate editor of the ACM TiiS
TiiS (Transactions on intelligent information systems)
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Zeit online ueber ShanghAI Lectures
In einem Seminar in Künstlicher Intelligenz der Uni Zürich treffen sich 370 Studenten aus aller...
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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...
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Prof Harald Gall has been elected as Associate Editor of TSE
TSE (Transactions on Software Engineering)