Collaborative Centers and
Industry Labs
The Department of Computer Science has established or participates in a number of centers. These have been created to instantiate a certain topic, collaboration, or outreach activity. Thus, the exact structure and purpose of the centers differ.
Several of these centers have been founded very recently in response to the ongoing trend in computer science of increasing growth, diversification, and relevance to other disciplines and industry.
The Swiss Support Center for Cybersecurity (SSCC), 2020
The Swiss Support Center for Cybersecurity is a joint initiative of EPFL and ETH Zurich. The mission of the SSCC is to support governmental and industry bodies as well Swiss society as a whole in facing the increasing number of complex challenges we are seeing today in cyber security.
Media Technology Center (MTC), 2019
The centre’s mission is to drive forward with technological innovation in media at the intersection of media technology, digital journalism and design. To accomplish this goal, the centre runs research projects under the guidance of partners from industry and academia. A strong commitment to an open innovation policy allows the MTC to serve as a hub for the Swiss media industry to engage with academia and to envision the future of digital media.
ETH Foundations of Data Science, 2019
ETH-FDS aims to bring together existing excellence and expertise within ETH Zurich to further strengthen top research in the foundations of data science across different departments of ETH Zurich.
external pageSwiss Data Science Center, 2017call_made
The SDSC’s mission is to promote and accelerate the use of data science within academic disciplines of ETH Domain, the Swiss academic community at large and the industrial and public sectors, encouraging best practices in open research data (ORD) and open science, and promoting open innovation. It brings together data providers, data and computer scientists and subject matter experts around collaborative projects, offering an innovative analytics platform addressing security, privacy and reproducibility issues inherent to data science.
ETH Game Technology Center, 2015
The ETH Game Technology Center explores the unique way game technology can impact ETH’s mission in education, research and outreach. Established in 2015, the ETH GTC connects groups across ETH that are working on technology relevant to the gaming industry. By providing a unifying framework for these activities, the ETH GTC focuses on discourse about the impact of ETH technology on the field of gaming, both from an academic and industrial perspective.
external pageMax Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, 2015call_made
The Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS), run jointly by ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, aims to advance AI through a fundamental understanding of perception, learning and adaptation. It provides a platform for exchange in research and education, in particular through cross-institutional co-advising of doctoral students.
ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies, 2013
The ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies is an interdisciplinary centre for theoretical sciences, focused on mathematics, the theoretical natural sciences and theoretical computer science.
Center for Computer Science Education (ABZ), 2007
The Center for Computer Science Education (ABZ, short for German “Ausbildungs- und Beratungszentrum für Informatikunterricht”) was founded in 2005, initially to convince society as a whole to introduce “Informatics” into the educational system as a new independent subject, and then to support implementation of this new subject into the Swiss school system at all levels.
Center for Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics and Optimization (CADMO), 2005
The Center for Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics and Optimization is a cooperation of several research groups at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at ETH Zurich, with adjunct groups from related areas. The main objective is to strengthen these scientific fields by joint research and teaching activities.
Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC), 2003
The ZISC is an industry-supported research centre of ETH Zurich, founded in 2003, with the goal of bringing academia and industry together to solve the information security challenges of tomorrow.
ETH Future Computing Laboratory (EFCL), 2021
The ETH Future Computing Laboratory is an industry-funded research centre that aims to spearhead the development of advanced computing systems that have the potential to change the world’s technological trajectory. With a focus on hardware and software, the EFCL plans to engage in long-term research on next-generation technologies that span many domains, including but not limited to computer architecture, computer vision, integrated circuits, high-performance computing, and security.
The center aims to develop next-generation design methodologies to simultaneously increase construction productivity, improve the quality of the built environment and substantially reduce the ecological impact within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. The focus of Design++ is on computational methodologies that integrate quantitative metrics (such as structural integrity, energy performance, life-cycle assessment, acoustics and cost estimation) with expressive and creative user-driven design.
The ETH Quantum Center draws together all of ETH Zurich’s expertise in the domain of quantum science.
The ETH AI Center, founded in October 2020 as ETH Zurich’s central hub for artificial intelligence, brings together researchers from AI foundations and AI impact areas in an interdisciplinary setting with dedicated space. It fosters AI research excellence, industry innovation and entrepreneurship to promote trustworthy, accessible and inclusive AI systems.
external pageCyber Defense Campus (CYD), 2019call_made
The Cyber Defence Campus was founded in January 2019 in order to anticipate cyber developments more quickly. It forms the link between DDPS, industry and science in research, development and training for cyber defence.
external pageMicrosoft Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab, 2018call_made
The lab is working on building the future of mixed reality using computer vision to map and understand the environment, recognise and track relevant objects, and assist users performing tasks. It is also exploring the synergies between mixed reality and robotics. Within Microsoft the lab serves as a centre of excellence in 3D computer vision and contributes both to research as well as core products in the space of mixed reality such as HoloLens and Azure Spatial Anchors.
external pageMicrosoft Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), 2013call_made
The center is a collaborative effort between Microsoft, EPFL and ETH Zurich, with the goal of addressing research challenges in areas related to AI (including computer vision via the Mixed Reality & AI Labs in Zurich and Cambridge), health and confidential computing.
external pageDisney Research|Studios (DRS), 2008call_made
DisneyResearch|Studios is a corporate research laboratory operating in close partnership with ETH Zurich. Originally organised under Walt Disney Imagineering, in 2018 Disney Research Zurich became DisneyResearch|Studios, with a renewed mandate to explore the scientific frontiers in service to the technical and creative filmmaking process. DRS has a diverse research portfolio covering visual computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.