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Artificial intelligence detects heart defects in newborns
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- Artificial intelligence
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
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Researchers from the group led by Professor Julia Vogt, who runs the Medical Data Science Group at ETH Zurich, and KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig in Regensburg have developed an algorithm that provides an automatic and reliable method of detecting a certain heart defect in newborns.
ACM SIGSAC Runner-Up Award for Samuel Steffen
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- D-INFK
- Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab
For his thesis “A Programming Language Approach to Smart Contract Privacy”, former doctoral student Dr Samuel Steffen received the prestigious ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Runner-Up Award. Congratulations!
Farewell, Ce Zhang
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- Faculty
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- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Data science
Professor Ce Zhang was Associate Professor in the Data Sciences, Data Systems, & Data Services Lab (DS3Lab). He left ETH Zurich at the end of last month to take a position as an associate professor at the University of Chicago, USA. We wish him all the best!
Students ace programming contest
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- Chair of Information Technology and Education
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- Students
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- Information Technology and Education
A team of three ETH computer science Master’s students won a silver medal at the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and became European Champions – the best placement by an ETH team in the history of the contest.
Computer science students use AI to create art
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- Artificial intelligence
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- Students
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D-INFK students Jan Schnyder, Nicolas Muntwyler and Konstantin Wohlwend teamed up with UZH computer science student Kyrill Hux to launch "Generai", a platform that creates works of art from text prompts.
Three D-INFK papers win awards at ACM CCS 2022
- Applied Cryptography
- Network Security Group
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- Institute of Information Security
- Institute for High Performance Computing Systems
- Scalable Parallel Computing
- Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab
- D-INFK
- Institute for Programming Languages and Systems
Three teams of researchers from the Department of Computer Science have received awards at the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS), one of the top conferences in the field of security.
Bringing a smile to your face
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- Video
- News
- News und highlights
- Visual computing
- Computer Graphics Laboratory
- D-INFK
- Institute of Visual Computing
- Research
The Computer Graphics Laboratory, led by Professor Markus Gross, is working with Align Technology to advance the field of digital dentistry.
ERC Consolidator Grants for Otmar Hilliges and Martin Vechev
- ETH AI Center
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- Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab
- D-INFK
- Institute for Programming Languages and Systems
Professor Otmar Hilliges from the Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems and Professor Martin Vechev from the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems receive ERC Consolidator Grants for their respective research projects. The mid-career award is given to outstanding researchers with highly promising scientific track records. Congratulations!
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- Security
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- Front – Spotlight
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- Institute of Information Security
- News und highlights
- Information Security Group
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- Research Groups
- Machine learning
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Cookie consent banners only appear to give users control over their data. Researchers from the Information Security Group have developed a browser extension that uses machine learning to recognise and block unnecessary cookies.
Martin Vechev promoted to Full Professor
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Martin Vechev, head of the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab at the Department of Computer Science, has been promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor.
Two ASPLOS awards for Theodoros Theodoridis
- Advanced Software Technologies Lab
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- Programming languages
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- D-INFK
- Institute for Programming Languages and Systems
Theodoros Theodoridis, doctoral student in the Advanced Software Technologies Lab, has won two awards at the ASPLOS 2022 conference.
Farewell, Ankit Singla
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- Faculty
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- D-INFK
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
Professor Ankit Singla, head of the Network Design Lab, is leaving ETH Zurich to take on a new role with Google.
Holistic contextual AI-based document processing
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- Spotlight
- Spin-off
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The LegalTech spin-off from the Computer Science Department DeepJudge assists law firms, corporations, and courts by making data-sensitive administrative work more efficient.
Artificial intelligence training accelerated
- Artificial intelligence
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- High-performance computing
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- Institute for High Performance Computing Systems
- Scalable Parallel Computing
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- D-INFK
- Research
When working with neural networks, their training is the single most resource-demanding and costly process. Two computer scientists from Torsten Hoefler's team have now developed a software that considerably speeds up training. This will be especially relevant for scientific applications of future users of “Alps” at CSCS.
"There was an unwritten rule that no first-year student was allowed on the board"
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Alexandre de Spindler was an active VIS member from 2001-2003 and is the founder of the Snowdayz. Visionen editor Ricardo Heinzmann asks him in an interview about his time in VIS 20 years ago.
Swiss security policy in an unstable world
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- ZISC - Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center
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During her visit to ETH Zurich, Defence Minister Viola Amherd sketched a picture of an unstable, unpredictable world to which Swiss security policy must adapt. D-INFK contributes to Swiss cyber security through a number of initiatives and projects, including the secure internet architecture SCION and the Cyber Security Master's programme.
ARD/ZDF award for Pelin Dogan Schönberger
- MTC - Media Technology Center
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- D-INFK
- Computer Graphics Laboratory
- Institute of Visual Computing
- Centres
Pelin Dogan Schönberger, postdoc with the Media Technology Center, has received the ARD/ZDF Award "Women + Media Technology" for her doctoral thesis.
How ETH students established the first all-female Olympiad in Informatics
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- Students
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Next week, the first European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics will take place in Zurich. The competition, which will have around 160 participants from 43 countries, is organised with a strong involvement from students of the Department of Computer Science.
Early endeavours on the path to reliable quantum machine learning
- ETH AI Center
- Research Keywords
- Front – Spotlight
- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
- Research
- Spotlight
- News und highlights
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- Research Groups
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Centres
The future quantum computers should be capable of super-fast and reliable computation. Researchers at the DS3Lab conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.
Computer science in the context of history, culture and society
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- Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems
- Studies
- Teaching
- Research Groups
- Front – Spotlight
- D-INFK
Computer science is a young science that builds on old ideas. Friedemann Mattern has taught this for more than seven years in his computer science lecture for electrical engineering students. With his retirement, an era comes to an end.
Cyber networks – from students for students
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Cybersecurity is important in our increasingly digitised society. Cyber Group ETH Student Initiative, a student-founded organisation, works to educate and inspire students about cybersecurity, for instance by hosting events such as the virtual Meet & Greet.
Everything AI?
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- ETH AI Center
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
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- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Data Analytics
- Centres
ETH Zurich promotes innovation in AI technology. This includes the extension of its partnership with the Max Planck Society, the launch of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and the opening of the ETH AI Center. Professors Thomas Hofmann and Andreas Krause are at the forefront of these efforts.
How Machine Learning can help in medicine
- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Spotlight
- Artificial intelligence
- News und highlights
- Algorithms
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- Machine learning
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Diversity
- D-INFK
In the latest episode of the ETH podcast Professors Julia Vogt and Fanny Yang explain why machine learning is an important tool in medicine.
“The greatest success would be if the centre were to be absorbed into something bigger”
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- Artificial intelligence
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Centers and cooperations
- Machine learning
- Front – Spotlight
- Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems
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- Data Analytics
- Research
- Centres
The Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems has just been renewed for another five years. Co-director Prof. Thomas Hofmann explains the role he sees for the center in Europe.
Who chooses the path that data takes?
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- Network Security Group
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
- Topic
- Front – Spotlight
- D-INFK
- Research
The internet has changed our lives in positive ways, but it also has its risks. Adrian Perrig and his team are set on creating an Internet where society would regain more control.
ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern: fighting coronavirus together
- Biomedical Informatics Group
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- Medical and bioinformatics
- News und highlights
- Institute for Machine Learning
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- Machine learning
- D-INFK
- Research
To better track the coronavirus in Switzerland, biomedical informatics specialists from ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern have combined their online questionnaires on the shared platform covidtracker.ch.
Creating new prediction models for the epidemic
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- News und highlights
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- Data Sciences, Data Systems, and Data Services
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- Data science
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
- Research
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from ETH Zurich have organised an “epidemic datathon” to develop new prediction models for the spread of the virus.
Machines learn to speak Swiss German
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- Video
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- MTC - Media Technology Center
- Centers and cooperations
- Human-computer interaction
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- Research
- Centres
Virtual assistants cannot understand Swiss German. The ETH Media Technology Center is working to change that by teaching machines to speak and understand different Swiss German dialects.
"This is how we cope with the coronavirus"
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- Students
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Video conferences instead of social coffee breaks and a very short commute to work. In order to slow the rapid spread of the coronavirus, most members of the Department of Computer Science are now working from home. Read how they are experiencing their new reality.
"I am positively surprised at how quickly all the lecturers have adapted to the new situation"
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- Management
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As Director of Studies, Professor Ueli Maurer is responsible for teaching at the Department of Computer Science. When ETH Zurich discontinued all classroom teaching on March 16, he, too, was faced with the challenge of ensuring that the department’s more than 1'000 Bachelor's and Master's students could continue their studies.
International Women's Day – interview with Prof. Julia Vogt
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- Medical and bioinformatics
- Medical Data Science
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- Institute for Machine Learning
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- Staff
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- Artificial intelligence
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- Machine learning
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- Data science
In light of International Women's Day 2020, ETH Zurich puts successful women centre stage. Read about Prof. Julia Vogt, tenure track assistant professor of medical data science, in this article.
“Women are just as good as men at computer science”
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The CSNOW (Network of Women in Computer Science) supports and connects women the Department of Computer Science. At the turn of the year, the organisation’s leadership changed.