IfI News 2023

ICWSM 2023: Best Paper Award

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:54:56 GMT

The paper «Google the Gatekeeper: How Search Components Affect Clicks and Attention» by Jeffrey Gleason, Desheng Hu, Ronald E.Robertson, and Christo Wilson has won the Best Paper Award at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Limassol, Cyprus.
Congratulations to Desheng Hu from the Social Computing Group led by Anikó Hannák!

Smartwatch app «MindfulPacer» helps Long Covid patients

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:34:54 GMT

André Meyer-Baron and Carlo Cervia-Hasler developed «MindfulPacer» and were recently awarded with the UZH Postdoc Team Award for it. Congratulations!

Best Paper Award for Davide Scaramuzza’s lab at IROS 2023

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:21:36 GMT

Congratulations! The paper “Autonomous Power Line Inspection with Drones via Perception-Aware MPC” by J. Xing, G. Cioffi, J. Hidalgo-Carrió, and D. Scaramuzza won the best paper award at the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems.

Dan Olteanu named PVLDB Distinguished Associate Editor

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:37:15 GMT

Dan Olteanu is honoured as Distinguished Associate Editor at Very Large Data Base (VLDB) 2023 for his work from March 2022 to June 2023 as associate editor of the Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases Volume 16.

Digitising the environmental paradigm

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:00:00 GMT

On 19 September 2023, Lorenz Hilty gave a keynote in the Lecture Series «Making Sense of the Digital Society». The public event took place at the Urania Berlin.

AI Drone beats Human World Champions

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT

It is the first time that an autonomous mobile robot has beaten human champions in a real physical sport. The paper by Davide Scaramuzza and his team was published by «Nature». Congratulations!

Scientifica 2023

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:50:21 GMT

At Switzerland's largest science festival, you will experience a week of research and science in direct exchange with researchers.

DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for Jürgen Bernard: SDG Research Scout

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:55:17 GMT

Jürgen Bernard has received a DSI Infrastructure & Lab grant. Together with the teams of Martin Volk and Lorenz Hilty, he will design and develop an interactive tool for identifying content relevant to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in UZH's scientific publications, making it easier for UZH members to engange with SDG-relevant research.

Ning Wang receives a FAN Fellowship

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:30:51 GMT

Ning Wang joined recently the Informatics and Sustainability Research Group. She receives one of this year's FAN Fellowships. Congratulations!

Honorary Fellow Award an Lorenz Hilty

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:00:50 GMT

Die ICT4S Community hat auf ihrer Jahreskonferenz in Rennes, Frankreich, den ersten Honorary Fellow Award an Prof. Lorenz Hilty verliehen.

In den Medien: New Work und FlowTeams

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Um eine gute Produktivität und ein hohes Wohlbefinden zu erreichen, benötigen Wissensarbeiter:innen eine gute Balance zwischen Fokusarbeit und Kollaboration im Team. Wie gelingt diese Balance?

Damaris Schmid hat den Engagement Award gewonnen

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Damaris Schmid wurde an der Promotionsfeier der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät mit dem «Engagement Award» ausgezeichnet. Herzliche Gratulation!

The Carbon Footprint of Smartphones

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:06:27 GMT

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.

Inaugural lecture by Dan Olteanu

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:44:21 GMT

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.

Digitalisierung neu denken und umsetzen

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:46:13 GMT

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».

Two-year project "Government as a Platform" receives DIZH funding and opens two PhD positions

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:00:47 GMT

Liudmila Zavolokina, in collaboration with Gerhard Schwabe and Gianluca Miscione, has received further funding from DIZH for the project «Government as a Platform». Congratulations!

A new testing facility at Dübendorf Airport for drones

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:04:07 GMT

LINA, the new testing facility, is unique in Europe. It was realised thanks to the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions.

In den Medien: So verändert ChatGPT die Bildungs- und Berufswelt

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:06:16 GMT

Martin Volk spricht unter anderem darüber, wie ChatGPT das Schreiben von Seminararbeiten unterstützen kann und weshalb ethische Fragestellungen in der Informatik zugenommen haben.

In the media: Ethical issues with AI

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Robotics researcher Davide Scaramuzza warns about deadly consequences of using drones and Artificial Intelligence for warfare.

Best Paper Award for Liudmila Zavolokina, Kilian Sprenkamp and Birgit Schenk

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT

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).

In the media: Robotics stories

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT

The autonomous drone race by the Robotics and Perception Group is one of the top 10 robotics stories of 2022 by IEEE Spectrum.