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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 Department of Informatics IfI as of August 1, 2022. Building on previous processes and work laid out by his predecessor Prof. Dr. Renato Pajarola, he will continue guiding IfI through these complex times.
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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 together with Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Christoph Lutz (BI Norwegian Business School, Norway), Eduard Bosch-Villaronga (Leiden University, The Netherlands), and Anto Čartolovni (Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia) the GoodBrother International Conference on Privacy-friendly and Trustworthy Technology for Society on June 28, 2022 in Zagreb, Croatia.
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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 annual European Robotics Forum in Rotterdam this week. This is the most prestigious PhD award for dissertations in robotics in Europe. Congratulations!
Antonio finished his PhD in 2021 and is now a Postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications have been cited more than 1600 times already.
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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 projects which deal with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine. Gerhard Schwabe and Liudmila Zavolokina won a DIZH Rapid action grant for their project “Government as/is a platform”. Congratulations!
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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 Empirical Analysis of the Recommendation Algorithm of TikTok».
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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 the University of Zurich in 1995 for his important contribution to computer based management and information systems.
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Dan Olteanu wins Test of Time Award
The International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) presented the Test of Time Award 2022 to Dan Olteanu. The award recognizes the paper «Factorized Representations of Query Results: Size Bounds and Readability» by Dan Olteanu and Jakob Závodný. Congratulations!
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Informatiktage 2022
Die sechste Ausgabe der Informatiktage ging erfolgreich über die Bühne. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Science Lab UZH boten wir sieben Online-Kurse für Schulklassen auf Primar- und Sekundarstufe an zu den Themen «Was ist ein Programm» und «Umweltinformatik». Diese Kurse waren innert kurzer Zeit ausgebucht – das grosse Interesse von Lehrpersonen und Schüler:innen freut uns sehr!
Ausserdem erzählten Informatikstudierende der ETH Zürich und der Universität Zürich in einer interaktiven Online-Veranstaltung aus ihrem Studiumsalltag, informierten über die verschiedenen Studienschwerpunkte sowie Vertiefungsrichtungen in der Informatik und beantworteten Fragen aus dem Publikum.
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Replicability Stamp Award
The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative has awarded the paper «Visualizing Graph Neural Networks with CorGIE: Corresponding a Graph to Its Embedding». Congratulations to Jürgen Bernard!
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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 Vereinten Nationen: Ein Tag, an dem die Leistungen von Frauen in der Wissenschaft gewürdigt werden und Frauen und Mädchen ermutigt werden sollen, sich für ein Studium und eine Karriere in den MINT-Fächern zu entscheiden.
Im Rahmen dieses Tages bot die Universität Zürich spannende MINT-Veranstaltungen für Mädchen und junge Frauen an. Es freut uns, dass wir insgesamt fast 70 Teilnehmerinnen zu den Workshops und Führungen begrüssen durften!
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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 (Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions) supports projects for which concept and implementation plans already exist. Congratulations!
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In the media: The event camera
According to Davide Scaramuzza event cameras are about 40 times as efficient as frame cameras.
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Informationskrise und Pandemie
Die Pandemie stellt Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur auf die Probe. Was kann man aus den bisherigen Erfahrungen in der Schweiz lernen?
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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 Energieverbrauch beim Streamen kontrollieren können.
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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 interactive data science system developed in a collaboration with BMW.
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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 Learning. An in-depth investigation of the deep learning workflow».
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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 quality by Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy (all Microsoft Research), Harald Gall (IfI), and Premkumar Devanbu (University of California, Davis) has won the ESEC/FSE Test of Time Award 2021.
This award recognizes highly influential papers published ten years ago in the European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE).
In 2019, Harald Gall was already one of the authors of a Test-of-Time-awarded publication.
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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 Melise - Machine Learning Assisted Software Development.
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Professur für Ingo Scholtes in Würzburg
Ingo Scholtes, SNF-Professor für Data Analytics am IfI, ist einem Ruf an die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg gefolgt. Der neu eingerichtete Lehrstuhl für «Machine Learning for Complex Networks» befasst sich mit maschinellen Lernverfahren für Daten, die sich als Graphen darstellen lassen. Solche Verfahren sind in der Lage, Muster in Datensätzen zu erkennen, die nicht die Annahmen klassischer maschineller Lernverfahren erfüllen – wie sie bisher etwa bei Bild- und Audiodaten oder Textdaten angewendet werden.
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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 Technology, has been granted a project that investigates the question “what constitutes an expert in software quality”.
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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 230 schools worldwide. Researchers from MIT and Stanford, together with Coindesk, looked at undergraduate and graduate programs, research and innovation at the faculty level, academic reputation, employment outcomes, and other aspects. Original article on Coindesk (with link to the methodology).
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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 autonomous quadcopter to fly at up to 40 kilometers per hour through unknown environments without colliding with obstacles. The drone's neural network learns to avoid obstacles by watching a “simulated teacher”, i.e., an algorithm that flew a simulated drone in a virtual environment.
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SNF Ambizione grant for Luca Rossetto
Luca Rossetto from the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group receives the Ambizione Grant for his MediaGraph project. Congratulations!
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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 Professor ad personam for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Warmly welcome, Claudio!
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Drohne besiegt Profi-Drohnenpiloten
Der neu entwickelte Algorithmus von Davide Scramuzzas Forschungsteam lässt eine Drohne schneller fliegen als zwei Piloten. Zum ersten Mal gelingt dieser Erfolg.
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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 outstanding contributions to the characterization, design, and evaluation of visual-interactive interfaces to combine the strengths of both humans and algorithms”.
The laudatio by Eduard Gröller also points out that Jürgen’s papers are by now widely cited and that his career shows a very clear positive gradient.
Congratulations, Jürgen!
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Home Office und Klimaschutz
Jan Bieser hat sich in seiner Dissertation mit Umweltaspekten von Home Office und Co-Working befasst.
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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 Research Competition at ACM CHI 2021 conference.
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DIZH postdoc fellowship for Liudmila Zavolokina
Liudmila Zavolokina won one of four highly competitive DIZH postdoc fellowships for her research project «Digital ecosystems for public value creation». The DIZH (Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions) will fund her research for four years. Congratulations!
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Congratulations for the Semester Award HS20
Thomas Mannhart has been awarded a HS2020 Semester Award for his BSc thesis, entitled «A General-purpose Range Join Algorithm for PostgreSQL».
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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 Vision: From State Estimation to Motion Planning». Congratulations!
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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 behind NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.
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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 first episode, he joined a conversation with Susanne Bødker, professor of human-computer interaction at Aarhus University.
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SNF Sinergia grant for Renato Pajarola
Renato Pajarola has received, together with partners from the EPFL and the University of Amsterdam, a Sinergia grant for the project «Narratives from the long tail: Transforming access to audiovisual archives». Congratulations!
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UZH-Startup-Label für PolygonSoftware
Die UZH-Informatikstudenten Joel Barmettler, Marius Högger und Frank Huber gründeten vor zwei Jahren PolygonSoftware. Jetzt wurde die Firma mit dem UZH-Startup-Label ausgezeichnet. Herzliche Gratulation!
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Informatiktage 2021
Die Informatiktage gehen in die sechste Runde. Dieses Jahr stehen Schulklassen und Lehrpersonen im Mittelpunkt.
Das Institut für Informatik bietet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Science Lab UZH und dem «ehemaligen» Museum of Digital Art Online-Workshops an.
Und zusammen mit dem Departement Informatik der ETH organisieren wir eine Informationsveranstaltung zum Informatik-Studium in Zürich.
Unser Programmangebot auf der Website der Informatiktage.
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Wie Drohnen absturzsicher werden
Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza zeigt, wie eine Drohne vor dem Absturz bewahrt werden kann, wenn einer der vier Rotoren ausfällt.