His dissertation in biophysics led Joachim Buhmann into the then still exotic terrain of machine learning in the mid-1980s. Since 2003, when he became an ETH professor, he has helped shape the explosive development of his field. It is not technical progress that worries him, but how society deals with it. Shortly before his retirement, he looks back on his academic career, in which, in addition to teaching and research, administrative functions have also been of great importance.
The ongoing development of artificial intelligence is often presented as a race between humans and machines. ETH professor Menna El-Assady takes a different approach: as head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at ETH Zurich, the young scientist wants to develop an AI that can be used interactively and that shapes its capabilities only in collaboration with humans.
We've all heard it, we all know it, we’ve all seen it: Computer science is not regarded as a “beacon” of diversity. In this interview, Professor Kenny Paterson, Head of the Department of Computer Science details his experiences with diversity, the challenges we face, and how D-INFK might be getting a bit better one step at a time.
Andreas Kuster, who finished his Master's at the Department of Computer Science in 2022, is one of the three winners of this year's St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition. He made it into the top 3 in competition with 700 other essays. Big congratulations!
The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) released a shortlist of outstanding works produced during the year 2023 by their members. The list is featuring an output from the Biomedical Informatics Group led by Gunnar Rätsch, in collaboration with the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group led by Andreas Krause.
Chatbots are already serving as digital mentors in lectures. Gerd Kortemeyer, a specialist in AI in teaching, explains what they can do – and soon will be able to.
Students of the department have voted for their favourite teaching assistants. VIS board member Benedikt Falk announced the winners at the last Department Conference. Big congratulations to all the recipients!
Professor Markus Gross receives the Eurographics Medal 2024 for his outstanding research contributions, for his contributions to bridging industry and academia and for his leadership in the field at large. Big congratulations!
“The way you learn languages on Duolingo lends itself well to those two subjects. You can learn them on the phone. You kind of pick it up on the go. We do have tutorials as well, but it’s mostly learning by doing.” Severin Hacker, D-INFK Alumnus, Co-Founder and CTO Duolingo
Professor Shweta Shinde and her group have have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the security mechanisms of AMD and Intel chips, potentially exposing sensitive data processed in public cloud environments to exploitation by hackers.
Professor David Basin and his team have developed a smartphone app that can be used to check the authenticity of documents and other items. Extracts from the debt enforcement register of the City of Zurich are being made forgery-proof as part of a pilot project.
