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Juraj Hromkovic has been Professor of Information Technology at ETH Zurich for the past 20 years. During this time, he has been a leading advocate of teaching computer science in schools. He’s now giving his farewell lecture.

For his outstanding achievements as a researcher, Professor Marc Pollefeys has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. Congratulations!

Professor Zhendong Su, along with his group members Dominik Winterer and Chengyu Zhang, has received the prestigious Amazon Research Award for their work in the field of automated reasoning.

ETH gave out its annual Spark Award on April 27. With their new system that enables safer digital currency transactions at a national scale, Srdjan Capkun, Kari Kostiainen and Karl Wüst from our department made it into the top five. Congratulations!

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.

Theodoros Theodoridis, doctoral student in the Advanced Software Technologies Lab, has won two awards at the ASPLOS 2022 conference.

The alternative internet SCION, invented and developed at ETH Zurich by Adrian Perrig, provides fast, secure and reliable connections for data transfer. It is now available to any ETH lecturers, researchers or employees with special security, performance or reliability requirements.

Stelian Coros, currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Computational Robotics in the Department of Computer Science.

Prof. Angelika Steger has been elected as a new member of the ETH Zurich Prize Committee as of 1 November 2021. The Prize Committee advises the Executive Board on science prizes.

An international research team whose members include Professor Shweta Shinde from our department, amongst others, has revealed a vulnerability in the security architecture of Intel processors. Until July, Microsoft and Google products were also affected.

Gagandeep Singh, former doctoral student at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, received the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award for his work on building safe and robust AI systems. Congratulations!

Professor Markus Gross, head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich and Vice President of Research for The Walt Disney Studios, has received the prestigious Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.

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.

Christina Pöpper, a professor at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), studied and earned her doctorate at ETH Zurich, where she also advocated for women at the Department of Computer Science. Today, she shows her students the elegance and beauty of computer science.

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.

Felix Berkenkamp, a former doctoral student in the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group, has received the annual ELLIS PhD Award for his doctoral thesis.

Would you consider connecting to your bank account in an internet café? Too risky? ETH researcher Aritra Dhar explains how to make sure that the message you send is the message received, even in a hostile environment.

Juraj Hromkovic has over 15 years of experience in teaching children computer science. He explains the approach we should take.