READ.ME - Archive 2023

View READ.ME September 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Professor Torsten Hoefler is newly affiliated with the CSCS
New head of the Institute for Machine Learning is Professor Thomas Hoffmann
Administrative assistant Simonetta Zysset is retiring

Stories of the month
3D printed plates for cleft lip and palate care (Till Schnabel, doctoral student)
"I try not to sacrifice my private life" (Eren Akbiyik, Master's student)

Prizes and awards
ETH Medals and Willi Studer Prize for Master's graduates
MorphTales achieved 2nd place at the Digital Awards

Events
ETH Industry Day
Distinguished Colloquium
Master's Graduation Ceremony

Tip of the month
Follow and tag us on Social Media

Giggles and glimpses
Make history: Name our D-INFK owl mascot!
Spotted

View READ.ME August 2023 here

Faculty and staff
A summer full of learning experiences

Story of the month
Being human (Prof. Thomas Hofmann)

Prizes and awards
Marc Pollefeys receives SNSF Advanced Grant

Events
Scientifica
ETH Information Days
Distinguished Colloquium

Please Meet...
Markus Dahinden, Senior Scientist Focus Education

Tips of the month
Scholarships
Interested research groups wanted

View READ.ME July 2023 here

Faculty and staff
A big welcome to this year's SSRF students

Stories of the month
Learning the hard way (Xenia Hofmeier, doctoral student)
Learning about yourself (David Dao, former doctoral student)
Following your heart (Chengyu Zhang, postdoc)
"RACKlette feels like a second family to me"
How AI models teach themselves to learn new things
Computer Science is now a basic subject in Swiss cantonal schools  

Prizes and awards
Frontiers of Science Award for Rasmus Kyng and Maximilian Probst

Events
Course in Parallel Programming
Paul Bernays Lectures
VMI Summer Retreat
CSNOW Schnupperstudium

Please Meet...
Valeria Bella, Event Manager at the ETH AI Center

Tip of the month
Wanted: Tandempartner for software developer
Polish your communications skills

View READ.ME June 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Professor Niao He becomes new Co-Director of the CLS

Stories of the month
"Morph Tales" – a new ETH game invites you to get to know AI research (ETH Game Technology Center, ETH AI Center)
The bridge builder (Dr. Martina Baumann)
How AI technology from ETH animates the fire creatures in the latest Pixar movie (Prof. Barbara Solenthaler)

Prizes and awards
Gaspard Zoss and Yifan Wang receive the Eurographics PhD Award
Team RACKlette reaches 3rd place and wins the LINPACK Award at the ISC Student Cluster Competition

Events
ETH Summer Student Research Fellowship (SSRF)

Please Meet...
Brigitte Marti, Studies Administrator and Mobility Advisor

Tip of the month
New address

Student corner
New equipment for the computer labs
Student workspaces food&lab temporarily closed

View READ.ME May 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Relocation to CAB and CNB

Stories of the month
Saving lives with artificial intelligence (Fabian Laumer, doctoral student)
Two new projects from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab (Prof. Christian Holz)
“By living in a different country, I have grown a lot as a person” (Cella Florescu, Bachelor’s student)

Prizes and awards
Ralf Jung is awarded the 2023 Alonzo Church Award
David Cock co-receives ACM Software System Award
Bernhard Schölkopf receives ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award
Marc Pollefeys was elected member of Academia Europaea
Gustavo Alonso receives EuroSys Lifetime Achievement Award
2023 VIS Teaching Awards

Events
2023 VIS Teaching Awards
lfl Colloqium "Troubling Visualization"
John von Neumann Symposium
Markus’ 60th birthday celebration
12. Schweizer Tag für den Informatikunterricht (STIU)
ETH Week 2023
Zukunftstag ETH Zurich

Please Meet...
Clara Meister, doctoral student

Tip of the month
VMI  Helpdesk

Student corner
VIS brunch
Student workspaces food&lab temporarily closed

View READ.ME February 2023 here

Faculty and staff
Welcome, Onicio Batista Leal
Farewell, Nezihe Merve Gürel
Congratulations, Saikishore Kalloori

Stories of the month
"I viewed studying in Zurich as a personal challenge" (Riccardo Roveri)
“I keep track of what my lecturers are saying thanks to my tablet.” (Jan Blum)
AI research will support the analysis of large medical dataset (The LOOP Zurich)
International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Events
Informatiktage
Distinguisched Colloquium
Inaugural Lectures
International Women’s Day
Kontaktparty
Master's Graduation Ceremony
IFL (Department of Informatics UZH) Colloquia

Please Meet...
Ben Fiedler, doctoral student, Systems Group

Tip of the month
BrainFair 2023: Lernen bei Mensch und Maschine

View READ.ME January 2023 here

Faculty and staff
"The human version of the disc defragmentation problem" (Prof. Kenny Paterson)
"You feel quite proud to run it" (Prof. Timothy Roscoe)

Stories of the month
The dawn of trustworthy and cooperative artificial intelligence (Prof. Niao He)
"I think I became bilingual" (Prof. Valentina Boeva)
Vulnerabilities in secure messenger Threema discovered (Prof. Kenny Paterson, Matteo Scarlata, Kien Tuong Truong)
A bite of the Big Apple (Tamara Gini)

Prizes and awards
Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su named ACM Fellows

Events
Inaugural Lectures
Informatiktage

Please Meet...
Sandra Kübler, Restaurant Manager food&lab CAB

Tip of the month
New Communication Academy course programme online