IfI News 2024

Drone technology on Mars

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:05:13 GMT

Davide Scaramuzza is collaborating with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the 2030 Mars Science Helicopter mission.

UZH Innovation Grant for Atomic

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:48:25 GMT

Atomic, a Task and Note Taking System, has been selected for the UZH Innovation Grant.

Congratulations to Tarek Alakmeh, research assistant at the Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab, and Amos Calamida, master’s student in Artificial Intelligence.

DSI Health Innovathon

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:54:06 GMT

Clara-Maria Barth, a PhD student at the Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group and People and Computing Lab (IfI), co-organized together with Alexander Lill (IfI, Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab) and Federica Zavattaro (UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care) the DSI Health Innovathon from November 21st to 22nd at the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich.

Semester Award for Paul Ferdinand Safari

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:23:11 GMT

Paul Ferdinand Safari has been awarded an FS2024 Semester Award for his outstanding Bachelor’s thesis, entitled «RecRef, a reflection-promoting visual analytics tool for athletic training and recovery».

ICWSM 2024: Best Paper Honorable Mention

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:08:05 GMT

The paper «Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search's Market Shares Under Vertical Segmentation» by Desheng Hu, Jeffrey Gleason, Muhammad Abu Bakar Aziz, Alice Koeninger, Nikolas Guggenberger, Ronald E. Robertson, and Christo Wilson has won the Best Paper Honorable Mention at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Buffalo, USA.
Congratulations to Desheng Hu from the Social Computing Group led by Anikó Hannák!

Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship for Konstantinos Kitsios

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:27:30 GMT

Konstantinos Kitsios from the Zurich Empirical Software Engineering Team receives one of this year’s Bodossaki Foundation Scholarships. Congratulations!

Bigger brains thanks to longer childhood

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:36:37 GMT

Christopher P.E. Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce de León, former researchers at the Department of Informatics, have been studying with their team the evolution of humans for years. The latest study has just been published by «Nature». Congratulations!

Was Algorithmen mit einer funktionierenden Demokratie zu tun haben

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:49:22 GMT

Abraham Bernstein erklärt im DSI Spotlight, wie Algorithmen die Meinungsbildung positiv beeinflussen können.

Cybathlon Jury Award for Sight Guide's assistance system

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:19:37 GMT

Congratulations! Davide Scaramuzza and his team have been awarded the Jury Award at the Cybathlon 2024.

Inaugural lecture by Giorgia Ramponi

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:41:39 GMT

Giorgia Ramponi investigates reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and multi-agent systems, advancing machine learning for autonomous and interconnected systems.

Teamwork mit Menschen und Maschinen

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:05:19 GMT

Wie könnte sich die Arbeitswelt durch die Anwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) verändern? Darüber diskutierten Abraham Bernstein und David Dorn im Talk im Turm zum Thema «Mit Köpfchen und KI. Wie wir künftig arbeiten».

SNF Project Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Mennatallah El-Assady

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:08:26 GMT

Congratulations! Jürgen Bernard, together with Mennatallah El-Assady from ETH Zürich, has been granted a project that will explore multi-criteria decision support.

Mit Köpfchen und KI

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:14:01 GMT

Wie wird in Zukunft unsere Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) aussehen? Wie lassen sich menschliche Fähigkeiten mit KI-Kompetenzen positiv kombinieren?

DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for Jürgen Bernard and Viktor von Wyl

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:43:18 GMT

Jürgen Bernard and Viktor von Wyl receive a DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant from the UZH Digital Society Initiative. Congratulations!

Best Reviewer Award to Manuel Günther

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:43:20 GMT

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

KI in Bildung und Forschung

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:08:53 GMT

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

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:00:27 GMT

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».

DSI Infrastructure & Lab Grant for André Meyer, Malte Döhne and Thomas Fritz

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:23:36 GMT

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

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:07:09 GMT

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

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:55:37 GMT

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

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:09:11 GMT

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!

Abschiedsvorlesung von Lorenz Hilty

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:37:15 GMT

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.

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

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:20:02 GMT

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 gewinnt den Engagement Award 2024

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:39:02 GMT

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!

Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung

Thu, 23 May 2024 10:33:20 GMT

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

Tue, 21 May 2024 13:30:05 GMT

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

ACM Gems of PODS talk by Dan Olteanu

Wed, 15 May 2024 13:21:58 GMT

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

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:36:36 GMT

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

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:02:48 GMT

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

DIZH outreach grant for André Meyer

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:26:04 GMT

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

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:52:52 GMT

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

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:14:08 GMT