READ.ME - Archive 2019
News. Insights. Stories.
This newsletter serves to keep all D-INFK members and ETH internal stakeholders informed about the goings-on at the department: news and stories, event updates and helpful information.
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View READ.ME December 2019 here
Faculty and staff
Farewell, Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina
Students thank Professor Ueli Maurer via newspaper ad
Test your typing speed – for science
Dr. Anna Feit is looking for volunteers to take her typing test in German
Prizes and awards
Professors Basin, Müller and Perrig receive funding from the Werner Siemens Foundation
Prof. Markus Püschel named IEEE Fellow
Prof. Srdjan Capkun recognised as ACM Fellow
Prof. Gustavo Alonso wins Test-of-Time Award
Prof. Stelian Coros receives ERC Consolidator Grant
Prof. David Basin becomes member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
BRCCH grant for Dr. Barbara Solenthaler
Two of our doctoral students receive awards at SC19
Dr. David Cock wins ACM SIGOPS 2019 Hall of Fame
Stories of the month
David Dao: Rainforest preservation through machine learning
Spin-off Tinamu Labs, Dr. Tobias Nägeli: Safe drone flights everywhere
Prof. Ankit Singla, Debopam Bhattacherjee: A new network design for the “Internet from space”
Upcoming events
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos (21-24 Jan 2020)
Paul Bernays Lectures (31 Aug - 1 Sep 2020)
Past events
Hackthon on Permafrost (28-30 Nov 2019)
Glühwein-Apéro (16 Dec 2019)
D-INFK in the news
New faculty member Prof. Ryan Cotterell: 19 new professors appointed (ETH News)
Prof. Juraj Hromkovic: Informatikunterricht: Wie Primarschüler Geheimschriften entschlüsseln lernen – ganz ohne Computer (NZZ)
Profs. Thomas Hofmann, Andreas Krause, Gunnar Rätsch: 17 ELLIS units across 10 European countries and Israel established (ELLIS Society)
Prof. Marc Pollefeys: Best of ICCV 2019 – Interview (Computer Vision News)
Cyber Defence Campus, Alumnus Dr. Vincent Lenders: Die Schweiz hat jetzt einen eigenen Cyber-Defence-Campus – wie Israel und die USA (Watson)
Please meet...
Communication & Marketing Group D-INFK, the team behind READ.ME
Tip of the month
Get connected on Twitter
View READ.ME November 2019 here
Faculty and staff
Farewell, Prof. Jürg Nievergelt
Mirjam Rösli takes on additional tasks
External advice service: bullying, harassment and discrimination
New independent, external advice centre
Prizes and awards
Prof. Markus Gross inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy
Team from Scalable Computing Lab wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Prof. Angelika Steger receives Golden Owl
Dr. Felix Günther receives ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award
Three D-INFK doctoral students honoured with ETH Medal
ISSS Excellence Award for Dr. Christian Badertscher
Stories of the month
Prof. Peter Müller: "Research and teaching nurture each other"
Dr. Severin Hacker: "You must have the courage not to be perfect in your expression"
Meet Marina Draskovic, SSRF Student from Serbia
Upcoming events
IMI: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Tackle Media's Biggest Challenges (4 Dec 2019)
Distinguished Colloquium: Productive Failure and Learning (9 Dec 2019)
Disney Tech Talk: Workflow and Technology Challenges for Animated Films (10 Dec 2019)
CAB south atrium - Glühwein-Apéro (16 Dec 2019)
Past events
Unix 50 event at Nokia Bell Labs (22 Oct 2019)
SCION Day (6 Nov 2019)
National Future Day (14 Nov 2019)
D-INFK in the news
Prof. em. Niklaus Wirth: Niklaus Wirth - eine lebende Informatik-Legende (swissinfo.ch)
Prof. Joachim Buhmann: Im Rausch des Sammelns von Einsen und Nullen (NZZ)
Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Adrian Perrig: ETH-Labor im Kampf gegen Cybergefahren (Computerworld)
Arbrea Labs (spin-off): Plastic Surgeons are Using A.I. to Determine Beauty (onezero.medium.com)
Please meet...
Michael Aerni, President of MoEB (Master students without an ETH Bachelor)
Tip of the month
Upcoming changes to websites and templates (reworking of the ETH corporate design)
View READ.ME October 2019 here
Faculty and staff
Institute for Pervasive Computing is now Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems
THE World University Ranking 2020
Prizes and awards
Prof. Srdjan Capkun, Prof. Andreas Krause: Digital Shapers 2019
Stories
Meet our ESOP 2019 students
Indoor Astronaut: Full steam ahead
Senior Scientists Focus Education: A passion for teaching
Heiki Riesenkampf: Deep learning, prefabricated
Upcoming events
Distinguished Colloquium (Fall Semester 2019)
Art & Computer Science: DriesDepoorter.key (1 November)
MTC Lecture Series: From Digital Intelligence to Digital Manipulation (6 November)
ETH Global: Code and Response Codeathon (16-17 November)
Branco Weiss Lecture: What is human? (25 November)
D-INFK in the news
Prof. Otmar Hilliges
SRF Digital: Google Pixel 4 Radar-Sensor: Smartphone steuern per Hand-Geste
Dr. Anna Feit
The Guardian: Ready, text, go: typing speeds on mobiles rival keyboard users
Prof. Marc Pollefeys
Netzwoche: Microsoft eröffnet zusammen mit der ETH ein Lab direkt in Zürich
Scandit, spin-off
inside-it.ch: Scandit und das IoT: "Hey Stuhl, wer bist du?"
New faculty member: Prof. Dennis Hofheinz
ETH News: Nine new professors appointed
Please meet...
Thomas Schmid, Technical Purchaser at the IT Service Group of the Department of Computer Science
Tip of the month
Changing your office address
View READ.ME September 2019 here
Faculty and staff
Welcome to:
Prof. Rasmus Kyng
Prof. Christian Holz
Prizes and awards
Prof. Mohsen Ghaffari: ERC Starting Grant
Prof. Bernard Schölkopf: Körber Prize
Stories
Good-bye, SSRF 2019 students
David Yenicelik: I felt empowered
Oliver Glauser: Data gloves as future computer interface?
Dr. Aurelien Lucchi: AI probes dark matter in the universe
Upcoming events
Global Lecture: HoloLens 2 Unpacked (3 October)
VIScon: Symposium and Hackathon (11-13 October)
Global Lecture: 5G: Innovation for Prosperity
D-INFK in the news
Prof. Thorsten Hoefler
HPCwire: New Method that can Simulate Nanoelectronics Earns Researchers Gordon Bell Prize Nomination
Media Technology Center (MTC)
persönlich.com: Media Technology Center kurz vor Start
Dr. Oliver Marchand, Dr. Elke Schaper (Alumni)
Startupticker.ch: MSCI reaches agreement to acquire Carbon Delta
Marc Röschlin
Sonntagszeitung: Das macht das Handy den ganzen Tag
Indoor Astronaut, spin-off
PIXEL. Magazin: Charmanter Koop-Schienenbau-Titel Unrailed! löst die Bremsen und bahnt sich heute den Weg auf den PC
Dr. Vlad Coroama
Tagesschau: Digitaler Energieverbrauch steigt
Please meet...
Regula Cinelli, Coach and Student Advisor at ETH Student Services
Tip of the month - how to promote upcoming events
Department visits
External visits
Faculty and staff
Goodbye to:
Prof. Thomas Gross
Marlies Weissert
Prizes and awards
Prof. Markus Gross: selected as member of ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
Prof. Andreas Krause: ACM SIGKDD Test of Time award
Stories
Julia Chatain: Let women code!
Prof. Kenny Paterson: Prime or not prime?
Upcoming events
Global Lecture: Is Digital Space the New Battlefield (2 September)
Innosuisse Roadshow (4 September)
ETH Industry Day (4 September)
Studieninformationstage (4-5 September)
D-INFK in the news
Prof. Thomas Hofmann
ETH Podcast: Artificial intelligence
Prof. Joachim Buhmann
Bluewin: «Die Digitalisierung ist die grösste Revolution, seit wir sesshaft sind»
Teralytics, DeepCode
inside-it.ch: Startups Teralytics und DeepCode sichern sich 21,5 Millionen Dollar
Please meet...
Jacqueline Braunschweiler, HR Manager Department of Computer Science and Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Tip of the month - how to promote upcoming events
Department events
External events
New faculty members
Prof. Valentina Boeva
Prof. Kenny Paterson
Prof. Julia Vogt
Prizes and awards
Prof. Martin Vechev: ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award
Prof. Onur Mutlu: ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
Dr. Barbara Solenthaler: TUM-IAS Hans-Fischer Fellowship
Pascal Bérard: Eurographics PhD Award
Stories
Welcome, SSRF 2019 students!
Dr. Vasiliki Kalavri: Building a stream processor for the future
Dr. Anna Maria Feit: "I'm not a typical nerd"
Prof. Andreas Krause, Dr. Oliver Verscheure: Swiss Data Science Center: empowering data-driven science
Upcoming events
Schnupperstudium (9-13 September)
VIScon (11-13 October)
Past events
Staff Party (21 May)
Master's Degree Celebration (7 June)
D-INFK in the news
Dr. Hoda Heidari
ETH Podcast: Which is fairer – human or machine?
Dr. Vlad Coroama
SRF: Warum Streaming viel Strom braucht
Prof. Andreas Krause
ETH Globe: "Can we still turn off the computer?"
New professors: Ana Klimovic, Rasmus Kyng, Mrinmaya Sachan and Siyu Tang
ETH News: Thirteen new professors appointed
Please meet...
Josua Cantieni, president of VIS (Verein der Informatik Studierenden)