IfI News 2021 https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021.html In den Medien: TV oder Handy – Wie schneidet Streaming in der CO2-Bilanz ab? https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/streaming-in-der-co2-bilanz-srf-CO2ntrol-hilty.html Im digitalen SRF-Umwelt und Klimaformat «SRF CO2ntrol» erklärt Lorenz Hilty, wie wir den Energieverbrauch beim Streamen kontrollieren können. 

]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:51:08 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/streaming-in-der-co2-bilanz-srf-CO2ntrol-hilty.html 2021-12-14T13:51:08Z Best Paper Award for Jürgen Bernard https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/IEEE-Vis-2021-best-paper-award-j%C3%BCrgen-bernard.html 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.

]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:23:04 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/IEEE-Vis-2021-best-paper-award-j%C3%BCrgen-bernard.html 2021-12-08T13:23:04Z Horizonte: Gleiche Information, andere Schlussfolgerung https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/same-data-different-conclusions-abraham-bernstein.html Haben Status, Geschlecht oder Hautfarbe einen Einfluss auf Redezeit und Teilnahme? 

]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:48:44 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/same-data-different-conclusions-abraham-bernstein.html 2021-12-07T09:48:44Z Congratulations for the Semester Award FS21 https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/outstanding-scientific-work-janosch-baltensberger.html Janosch Baltensperger has been awarded for his BSc thesis, entitled «Continuous Deep Learning. An in-depth investigation of the deep learning workflow».

]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:57:35 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/outstanding-scientific-work-janosch-baltensberger.html 2021-11-09T12:57:35Z ESEC/FSE 2021 Test of Time Award: Don’t touch my code! https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/test-of-time-award-2021-gall.html 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.

]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:11:44 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/test-of-time-award-2021-gall.html 2021-10-20T09:11:44Z SNF grant for Harald Gall and Pasquale Salza: Machine Learning Assisted Software Development https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-grant-2021-harald-gall-pasquale-salza.html Congratulations! Harald Gall and Pasquale Salza have been granted SNF funding for their project Melise - Machine Learning Assisted Software Development.

]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:51:09 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-grant-2021-harald-gall-pasquale-salza.html 2021-10-20T08:51:09Z Professur für Ingo Scholtes in Würzburg https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/machine-learning-for-complex-networks-ingo-scholtes.html 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.

]]> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:00:00 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/machine-learning-for-complex-networks-ingo-scholtes.html 2021-10-16T22:00:00Z SNF grant for Alberto Bacchelli: Software Engineers as Quality Experts https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-grant-2021-alberto-bacchelli.html 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”.

]]> Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:10:10 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-grant-2021-alberto-bacchelli.html 2021-10-14T13:10:10Z Blockchain: UZH Best in Europe, 4th Worldwide https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/blockchain-UZH-top-university.html 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).

]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:47:41 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/blockchain-UZH-top-university.html 2021-10-11T07:47:41Z Flying High-Speed Drones with AI https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ai-enables-high-speed-drone-flight-.html 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.

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:14:57 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ai-enables-high-speed-drone-flight-.html 2021-10-08T14:14:57Z SNF Ambizione grant for Luca Rossetto https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-ambizione-grant-2021-luca-rossetto.html Luca Rossetto from the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group receives the Ambizione Grant for his MediaGraph project. Congratulations!

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:28:00 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-ambizione-grant-2021-luca-rossetto.html 2021-09-14T13:28:00Z Claudio Tessone becomes Professor for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/Blockchain-and-Distributed-Ledger-Technologies-Tessone.html 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!

]]> Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:00:50 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/Blockchain-and-Distributed-Ledger-Technologies-Tessone.html 2021-08-02T07:00:50Z Drohne besiegt Profi-Drohnenpiloten https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ai-enables-high-speed-drone-flight.html Der neu entwickelte Algorithmus von Davide Scramuzzas Forschungsteam lässt eine Drohne schneller fliegen als zwei Piloten. Zum ersten Mal gelingt dieser Erfolg.

]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:56:32 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ai-enables-high-speed-drone-flight.html 2021-07-22T12:56:32Z EuroVis 2021 Young Researcher Award to Jürgen Bernard https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/eurovis-young-researcher-award-2021-j%C3%BCrgen-bernard.html 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!

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:32:36 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/eurovis-young-researcher-award-2021-j%C3%BCrgen-bernard.html 2021-06-29T07:32:36Z Home Office und Klimaschutz https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/homeoffice-klima.html Jan Bieser hat sich in seiner Dissertation mit Umweltaspekten von Home Office und Co-Working befasst.

]]> Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:35:07 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/homeoffice-klima.html 2021-06-24T15:35:07Z Herzliche Gratulation zum Abschluss https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/promotionsfeier-juni-2021.html Wir gratulieren allen Absolventinnen und Absolventen und wünschen viel Erfolg für die Zukunft!

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:38:48 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/promotionsfeier-juni-2021.html 2021-06-10T13:38:48Z Second place Award at ACM CHI 2021 conference https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ACM-CHI-2021-student-research-competition.html Natalia Obukhova, a master's student from IfI, receives the second place award from the Student Research Competition at ACM CHI 2021 conference.

]]> Thu, 20 May 2021 14:27:28 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/ACM-CHI-2021-student-research-competition.html 2021-05-20T14:27:28Z DIZH postdoc fellowship for Liudmila Zavolokina https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/DIZH-fellowship-digital-ecosystems-for-public-value-creation.html 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!

]]> Tue, 11 May 2021 16:37:05 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/DIZH-fellowship-digital-ecosystems-for-public-value-creation.html 2021-05-11T16:37:05Z Congratulations for the Semester Award HS20 https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/outstanding-scientific-work-thomas-mannhart.html Thomas Mannhart has been awarded a HS2020 Semester Award for his BSc thesis, entitled «A General-purpose Range Join Algorithm for PostgreSQL».

]]> Tue, 11 May 2021 15:48:09 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/outstanding-scientific-work-thomas-mannhart.html 2021-05-11T15:48:09Z Zichao Zhang receives the Annual Award from the Faculty of Business and Economics https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/faculty-of-business-economics-and-informatics-award-zichao-zhang.html The Annual Award 2021 goes to Zichao Zhang for his dissertation «Active Robot Vision: From State Estimation to Motion Planning». Congratulations!

]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:14:07 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/faculty-of-business-economics-and-informatics-award-zichao-zhang.html 2021-04-29T17:14:07Z Developing autonomous drones for space missions https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/autonomous-flight-to-mars.html The research of the Robotics and Perception Group inspired the design of the drone technology behind NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:29:06 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/autonomous-flight-to-mars.html 2021-04-28T09:29:06Z Sharing Economy Communities and Their Supporting Technologies https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/podcast-sharing-and-caring.html 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. 

]]> Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:11:46 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/podcast-sharing-and-caring.html 2021-04-15T13:11:46Z SNF Sinergia grant for Renato Pajarola https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-sinergia-grant-2021-renato-pajarola.html 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!

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:41:32 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/snf-sinergia-grant-2021-renato-pajarola.html 2021-03-29T13:41:32Z UZH-Startup-Label für PolygonSoftware https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/uzh-innovation-hub-mitglied-polygonsoftware.html 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!

 

]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:46:16 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/uzh-innovation-hub-mitglied-polygonsoftware.html 2021-03-09T15:46:16Z Informatiktage 2021 https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/informatiktage-2021.html 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.

 

]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:26:44 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/informatiktage-2021.html 2021-02-08T13:26:44Z Wie Drohnen absturzsicher werden https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/absturzsichere-drohne-dank-eventkamera.html Das Forschungsteam von Davide Scaramuzza zeigt, wie eine Drohne vor dem Absturz bewahrt werden kann, wenn einer der vier Rotoren ausfällt.

]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:00:00 GMT https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news-archive/2021/absturzsichere-drohne-dank-eventkamera.html 2021-02-02T23:00:00Z