In the Media

“The way you learn languages on Duolingo lends itself well to those two subjects. You can learn them on the phone. You kind of pick it up on the go. We do have tutorials as well, but it’s mostly learning by doing.” Severin Hacker, D-INFK Alumnus, Co-Founder and CTO Duolingo

Professor Shweta Shinde and her group have have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the security mechanisms of AMD and Intel chips, potentially exposing sensitive data processed in public cloud environments to exploitation by hackers.

Professor David Basin and his team have developed a smartphone app that can be used to check the authenticity of documents and other items. Extracts from the debt enforcement register of the City of Zurich are being made forgery-proof as part of a pilot project.

In an interview with Supercomputing Asia, Professor Torsten Hoefler. leader of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory and Chief Architect for AI at CSCS, talks about HPC education, regulation and international collaboration.

D-INFK spin-off Anapaya, the company behind the Scion technology, is on course for growth and wants to expand abroad and into new sectors.

Professor Menna El-Assady shines a torch into the black box of generative AI: How does a model arrive at decisions? And how can we correct them?

Generative AI has learnt to communicate and intervenes in public debates. This harbours great risks. The tech companies behind this development should not be overlooked. Prof. Florian Tramèr and his Spy Lab, Prof. Menna El-Assady.

D-INFK alumnus Patrice Becker (center), Leonhard Soenke (left) and Heiner Stinner created Throne, a gifting platform that has allowed 17 million social media users to fulfill wishlists for 500,000 of their favorite content creators on YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram and Twitch.  

Benedict Schlüter, Prof. Shweta Shinde