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The carbon footprint of smartphones is largely underestimated, as the focus has been mainly on the production phase – ignoring the impact of the entire life cycle of a smartphone. Lorenz Hilty emphasizes the importance of considering the environmental impact of our digital lives and calls for a shift towards a more sustainable and responsible use of technology.
Dan Olteanu investigates the principles behind computational challenges for data processing and designs simple and scalable solutions towards these challenges in both academia and industry.
Die weltweite Mehrfachkrise wirft Fragen nach einem grundlegenden Veränderungsprozess auf. Dabei könnte die Veränderung durch digitale Technologien unterstützt werden. Einen Überblick dazu bietet der Bericht «Digital Reset».
Liudmila Zavolokina, in collaboration with Gerhard Schwabe and Gianluca Miscione, has received further funding from DIZH for the project «Government as a Platform». Congratulations!
LINA, the new testing facility, is unique in Europe. It was realised thanks to the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions.
Martin Volk spricht unter anderem darüber, wie ChatGPT das Schreiben von Seminararbeiten unterstützen kann und weshalb ethische Fragestellungen in der Informatik zugenommen haben.
Robotics researcher Davide Scaramuzza warns about deadly consequences of using drones and Artificial Intelligence for warfare.
Congratulations!
The paper «Citizens' Expectations about Achieving Public Value and the Role of Digital Technologies: It Takes Three to Tango!» has won the Best Paper Award in the Digital Government track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
The autonomous drone race by the Robotics and Perception Group is one of the top 10 robotics stories of 2022 by IEEE Spectrum.
Abraham Bernstein has received, together with partners from the University of Zurich and the University of Queensland, a Sinergia grant for the project «Large-Scale Political Participation: Issue Identification, Deliberation, and Co-creation».
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Robotics researcher Davide Scaramuzza speaks about the petition on militarian drones.
Thanks to the Blockchain Center, the University of Zurich ranks third in this year's Blockchain ranking of 240 schools worldwide.
At the 47th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) in Edmonton, Canada, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller received, to his great surprise, an LCN Lifetime Achievement Award.
Congratulations! 🏆
Alberto Bacchelli pursues with his research the goal to make developers more effective and to improve software quality.
A new study looks at the positive and negative climate effects of digital products and services.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Maximilian Böker has been awarded a HS2021 Semester Award for his BSc thesis, entitled «An Empirical Analysis of the Recommendation Algorithm of TikTok».
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
According to Davide Scaramuzza event cameras are about 40 times as efficient as frame cameras.
Die Pandemie stellt Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur auf die Probe. Was kann man aus den bisherigen Erfahrungen in der Schweiz lernen?
