In the Media
The Department of Computer Science regularly appears in the national and international media spotlight. Here, you will find a collection of articles in English and German, arranged by publication date.
Forbes 30 under 30 Europe 2024: Start-up Throne
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.
Tech Xplore: Computer Scientists discover gap in the latest security mechanisms used by some chips
Benedict Schlüter, Prof. Shweta Shinde
Medical Xpress: How data provided by fitness trackers and smartphones can help people with multiple sclerosis
Dr. Shkurta Gashi, Prof. Christian Holz, Prof. Gunnar Rätsch
Beobachter: Schummeln bei Wohnungs-Bewerbung wird schwierig
Prof. David Basin
MIT Technology Review: It’s easy to tamper with watermarks from AI-generated text
Watermarks for AI-generated text are easy to remove and can be stolen and copied, rendering them useless, researchers have found. They say these kinds of attacks discredit watermarks and can fool people into trusting text they shouldn’t. D-INFK doctoral students Robin Staab and Nikola Jovanović from the SRI Lab of Professor Martin Vechev.
Business Insider: For $60, you could 'poison' the data AI chatbots rely on to give good answers, researchers say
Prof. Florian Tramèr - A group of AI researchers recently found that for as little as $60, a malicious actor could tamper with the datasets generative AI tools similar to ChatGPT rely on to provide accurate answers.
NZZ: Die virtuelle Umkleidekabine: Kann bald das Smartphone verraten, ob die Hose sitzen wird?
Prof. Olga Sorkine, Interactive Geometry Lab - Around half of the clothes bought online are returned. This harms companies and the environment. Artificial intelligence from Zurich aims to remedy the situation.
RUB News: Kevin Borgolte möchte softwarebasierte Systeme verbessern
Kevin Borgolte is a D-INFK alumnus. He studied and researched at various high-ranking international universities: he completed his master's degree at ETH Zurich, his doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was a postdoc at Princeton University.
Inside IT: "Mich stört, wie analog der Parlamentsbetrieb ist"
ETH computer scientist Dominik Blunschy was newly elected to the National Council and is one of the few with digital expertise. A conversation about AI, cake and conflicts of interest.
NZZ: 20 Jahre Google in Zürich: Tech-Gigant baut Zusammenarbeit mit der ETH aus
Empty offices and job cuts at Google: Is the Zurich tech miracle over? No, it's just taking a short break. Google started 20 years ago with 2 people in Zurich, today there are 5000. And the expansion continues, says the head of Google Switzerland. The next big thing is AI. ETH AI Center, D-INFK Alumnus Urs Hölzle, Google Schweiz CEO Christine Antlanger-Winter