IfI News 2012

Best Bachelor Thesis Award in 2012

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:51:16 GMT

The Bachelor Thesis of the CSG student Jeton Memeti was awarded the best Bachelor Thesis in 2012 from the Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme group (KuVS - Communications and Distributed Systems), the formally recognized networking expert group of the German Computer Science Association (GI). Jeton was invited for that reason to present at the NetSys 2013 in Stuttgart, Germanyhis Bachelor Thesis' results.

First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:27:46 GMT

IFI's Informatics and Sustainability Research Group and the ETH Energy Science Center are jointly organizing the "First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability" in Zurich.

IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:04:00 GMT

IfI student wins second prize in Swisscom Innovation Award

The CSG@IFI is by now officially an Ubuntu and Debian mirror site

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:53:17 GMT

The CSG@IFI is by now officially an Ubuntu and Debian mirror site

Article in Communications of the ACM

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:12:23 GMT

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 11, Pages 76-87: "The Challenges Ahead for Bio-Inspired 'Soft' Robotics" by Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, Fumiya Iida

Excellent! Sebastian Müller Awarded for his Master's Thesis

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:30:28 GMT

Sebastian Müller, who is now a PhD student at s.e.a.l research group has received one of UZH's semester awards for his 2011 Master's thesis "SmellTagger: Augmenting Design and Code Reviews with Multi-Touch Technology".

Crowdlang and CrowdOS supported by SNF

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:12:01 GMT

CrowdLang and CrowdOS, a programming language and operating system for human and machine computers (developed at the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group) is now supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). For more infos, see link below:

CatchMyPain.com wins biggest Swiss entrepreneurship award

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:17:04 GMT

The start-up Sanovation AGis among the winners of this year’s W.A. de Vigier entrepreneurship award. The team will receive CHF 100’000 to support their work on a worldwide chronic pain diary, called CatchMyPain.com.

IfI Professor Lorenz Hilty in the News with Report on Geolocation

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:31:33 GMT

The Swiss Center for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS) presented the results of a project led by Lorenz Hilty, professor at Ifi and Empa, to the media. The report titled "Lokalisiert und identifiziert" has been published by VDF Publisher at ETH as a book and is available in German (including an English summary) for download

Abraham Bernstein interviewed by Swiss Radio DRS 1 on Collective Intelligence

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:41:05 GMT

Abraham Bernstein, Professor at IfI, was interviewed on Collective Intelligence by the Swiss Radio DRS radio show Wissen aktuell in their June 5 edition. The show is available as a podcastor as a download(in German!).

Davide Scaramuzza wins 2012 European Young Researcher Award

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:56:30 GMT

Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Lab is the recipient of the 2012 European Young Researcher Award. He has been awarded by the Euroscience Selection Committee for his excellent work in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics.

UZH confers an honorary doctorate upon Prof. Thomas Malone

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:56:50 GMT

The Faculty of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Technologyof the University of Zurichconfers an honorary doctorate upon Prof. Thomas Malone, PhD, in recognition of the importance and diversity of his scientific contributions to the interaction between information technology and economic sciences, particularly the influence of information technology on market structures, coordination problems, and collective intelligence.

Programming the Global Brain published in the Communications of the ACM

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:53:08 GMT

The paper Programming the Global Brainby Abraham Bernstein(UZH), Mark Klein(MIT), and Thomas W. Malone(MIT) was published in the May 2012issue of the Communications of the ACM. A small movie accompaning the publicsation was also publsihed in the CACM on-line edition.

Abraham Bernstein in 20 Minuten Science Pages

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT

The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" published an article(second page; local copy) today (13.1.2012) about Abraham Bernstein's work on Crowdsourcing. The article (in German only) discusses how the wisdom of crowds has been leveraged for centuries and that the Internet offers new opportunities to bring Crowdsourcing to new levels.