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  • Best Reviewer Award to Manuel Günther

    Manuel Günther receives the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics’ Best Reviewer Award 2024. Congratulations!

  • KI in Bildung und Forschung

    Wie können und sollten Hochschulen mit der raschen Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) umgehen? Das Positionspapier der Digital Society Initiative der UZH  formuliert umfassende Empfehlungen.

  • Semester Award for Simon Klaassen

    Simon Klaassen has been awarded an HS23 Semester Award for his outstanding Bachelor's thesis, entitled «Bidders with Spite Towards the Auctioneer». 

  • 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 outstanding Master's thesis, entitled «Modeling Innovation Diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa – An Agent-Based Approach».

  • Meyer_Döhne_Fritz_DSI Infrastructure Grant

    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 that enhances our shared understanding of digital device use and its impact on society, individual well-being and productivity. The D2USP supports both researchers and citizens by offering a privacy-considerate, customizable, and user-friendly data-logging and self-monitoring software for both personal use and academic research.

  • Semester Award for Kexin Shi

    Kexin Shi has been awarded a HS23 Semester Award for her outstanding Master's thesis, entitled «Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots». 

  • European PhD Award for Elia Kaufmann

    Davide Scaramuzza's former PhD student Elia Kaufmann has been awarded the prestigious European PhD Award on Systems and Control 2023. Congratulations!

  • Collegium Helveticum fellowship for Francesco Sovrano

    Francesco Sovrano from Zurich Empirical Software engineering Team receives an Early-Career fellowship for his research project «Explainig the Unexplainable: Bridging the Gap Between Generative AI and Theory-Driven Explanations». He will spend ten months at Collegium Helveticum, starting this September. Congratulations!

  • Lorenz Hilty Abschiedsvorlesung

    Abschiedsvorlesung von Lorenz Hilty

    Ende Juli 2024 wird Lorenz Hilty, Professor am Institut für Informatik IfI der Universität Zürich UZH, emeritiert. Seit 2010 ist er hier als Professor für Informatik und Nachhaltigkeit tätig.

  • Daniel Gehrig, Davide Scaramuzza. Low Latency Automotive Vision with Event Cameras. Nature. 29 May 2024

    Bio-Inspired Cameras and AI Help Drivers Detect Pedestrians and Obstacles Faster

    Recognizing obstacles – especially pedestrians – quickly and reliably is crucial for any driver-assistance system. Every millisecond counts when a car is moving at high speeds and a child runs across the street. However, traditional RGB cameras are comparatively slow as they either suffer from low framerates (missing events that happen between two frames) or, in the case of high framerates, generate too much data to evaluate quickly.

    Using a clever combination of a regular RGB camera and a so-called “event camera” (which excels at recognizing pixel-precise changes, e.g., speed) Daniel Gehrig and Davide Scaramuzza from the IfI’s Robotics and Perception Group were able to construct a visual detector that recognizes potentially dangerous situations a hundred times as fast as the best driver-assistance camera systems available today. Gehrig (who also won the UZH Annual Award for his PhD Thesis about this work) and Scaramuzza published this groundbreaking method in Nature. Congratulations!

     

    Daniel Gehrig, Davide Scaramuzza. Low Latency Automotive Vision with Event Cameras. Nature. 29 May 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07409-w

  • Tarek Alakmeh erhält den Engagement Award 2024

    Tarek Alakmeh gewinnt den Engagement Award 2024

    An der Promotionsfeier der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät konnte das Publikum wählen, wer den «Engagement Award» erhalten soll. Es freut uns sehr, dass dieser Preis, mit dem ein besonderes Engagement neben dem Studium gewürdigt wird, an Tarek Alakmeh ging.

     

    Tarek hat sich als Präsident des Fachvereins ICU, strategischer Leiter von Bestande 2.0, der unabhängigen App für Modulbewertungen von Studierenden für Studierende und nicht zuletzt Fraktionspräsident «fvoec ⨉ ICU» im VSUZH-Rat auf vielfältige Weise für die Anliegen der Studierenden am Institut, an der Fakultät und an der Universität eingesetzt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu dieser Auszeichnung!

  • Lorenz Hilty

    Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Seit 2010 ist Lorenz Hilty Professor am Institut für Informatik IfI der Universität Zürich UZH. Seit 2014 ist er zusätzlich Delegierter der Universitätsleitung für Nachhaltigkeit. Nun wird er Ende Juli emeritiert. 

  • IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award to Davide Scaramuzza

    Congratulations! Davide Scaramuzza has been awarded the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award during the ICRA2024 conference. 

  • 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, Chile in June 2024. The Gems of PODS event features topics and results in PODS that have been highly influential in the PODS community and beyond. 

  • Daniel Gehrig receives UZH Annual Award for his PhD thesis

    Congratulations to our former PhD student Daniel Gehrig for receiving the prestigious UZH Annual Award for his PhD thesis «Efficient, Data-Driven Perception with Event Cameras». 

  • Podcast: Paradigmen der Informatik – grosse Fragen und kleine Revolutionen einfach erklärt

    Im Podcast «Paradigmen der Informatik» diskutieren Bachelorstudierende fundamentale Fragen der Informatik. 

  • DIZH outreach grant for André Meyer

    André Meyer and his team at UZH and USZ won a DIZH outreach grant for their research project «MindfulPacer». The DIZH (Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions) outreach grants support projects with existing prototypes who want to increase visibility and the network at their target group. Congratulations!

  • Mining Coins

    Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrency were created to overcome the monopoly of money. But what happened?

  • 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 Intelligence for Cyber-Physical Systems. 
    Warmly welcome, Giorgia! 

  • 50 Jahre Institut für Informatik

    2023 feierte das Institut für Informatik sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Genau genommen ist das IfI aber schon 65 Jahre alt.

  • In memoriam: Prof. em. Dr. Niklaus Wirth

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