READ.ME - department newsletter

View READ.ME October 2024 here

Faculty and staff
New leadership for the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
New co-presidency for VMI

Story of the month
How law-abiding is AI? ETH researchers put it to the test
"Don’t become complacent about the things you already know."
ETH Zurich and EPFL enhance collaboration to boost AI in Switzerland

Prizes and awards
Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
David Basin wins Dandelion Award 2024
Meet this year's ESOP scholars

Events
Tech Interview Workshop
Distinguished Colloquium on Geometric Discretization and Optimization for Computational Design and Fabrication
Save-the-Date Glühwein-Apéro
Save-the-Date Informatiktage
Save-the-Date D-INFK Staff Party 2025

Tips of the month
Respect – Reflect – Respond
Find Raspi!

Open positions and opportunities
Professor or Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computer Science – Systems for Data Science
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Theoretical Computer Science
ETH AI Center Fellowship programmes
Student Summer Research Fellowship 2025

Giggles & glimpses
Costume ideas for programmers

Student corner
Bachelor's Graduation Ceremony by VIS

View READ.ME September 2024 here

Story of the month
“Programs are mathematics turned into physics”

Prizes and awards
Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Torsten Hoefler
Mennatallah El-Assady honoured with GI-Dissertation Award
eBPF Grant Award for Zhendong Su and Hao Sun
IEEE TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Maciej Besta
ETH Medals and Willi Studer Prizes for Master's Graduates
Swiss team wins medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics

Tips of the month 
New guidelines for the use of generative AI in teaching
Swiss Game Hub: Monthly playtesting event

Events
CSNOW meetups for women
CSNOW Semester Apéro
Distinguished Colloquium: The Science of Fit – Understanding how Clothes Interact with our Bodies
Inaugural Lecture: Intelligence Augmentation – Bridging Human and Artificial Intelligence & Reimagining Programming Interfaces for Learners and Developers
Hack4Good
Farewell Lecture: Statische und Dynamische Abhängigkeiten
Global Lecture: Social Artificial Intelligence
Master's Graduation Ceremony
Global Lecture: As If Human – Living in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Discover, learn, compete: VIScon 2024

Open positions and opportunities
Administrative Assistance (m/w/d) at the Institute for Visual Computing
Educational opportunities

Giggles & glimpses
The weekly quizmaster

View READ.ME August 2024 here

Faculty and staff 
Welcome, Michalis Kokologiannakis

Stories of the month
A fellowship full of special insights
Preparing Leaders for the Digital Future and AI

Tip of the month 
Planted Openhouse 2024
Communication Academy

Events
ETH Information Days
Welcome Event for Computer Science Bachelor’s students
togETHer24 staff party
AI + Environment Summit 2024
School visits to D-INFK: Call for participation

Open positions and opportunities
Doctoral student in Digital Fabrication and Computational Optimization

Giggles & glimpses
Swiss engineering and handicraft par excellence
A joke that epitomised the digital revolution

View READ.ME July 2024 here

Faculty and staff 
Ulrike von Groll's 15th anniversary at D-INFK

Prizes and awards
Barbara Solenthaler wins Frontiers of Science Award
ACM SIGPLAN Award for Benjamin Bichsel
Ulrik Brandes honoured with Simmel Award
Computer science talents clear gold medals
Young Swiss computer scientists win silver and bronze

Stories of the month
PURE: New security solution wards off digital pickpockets
"I value the freedom of being able to listen to my innate curiosity"
Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm

Tip of the month
Walk the slackline

Events
CSNOW Trial Study
30 years CGL
SSRF Fellows at CSCS

Open positions and opportunities
Data Science Internship with Schwarz IT

Giggles & glimpses
Fun zone
Kubb

Student corner
CSNOW Summer Apéro

View READ.ME June 2024 here

Faculty and staff 
Niao He joins the Executive Board
New affiliated faculty
Welcome, new SSRF fellows

Prizes and awards
ETH takes 7th place again in QS
Fitz Kutter Prize

Stories of the month
"If you survive this, then nothing will stop you"
SPY Lab researchers first to ever peek into ChatGPT's black box
How top-flight researchers draw global companies to Zurich

Tips of the month
Summer delights around Zurich

Events
Colloquium: Celebrating 30 Years of Computer Graphics Lab
CSNOW Summer Apéro
Presentation: AI in Financial Services

Open positions and opportunities
New York Security Challenge 2024
Supervise Swiss ICT Talents in New York City
Fulbright Specialist Program 2025
CYD Fellowships
James Dyson Award 2024
Become a teaching assistant

Giggles & glimpses
Fun zone: Reminder to submit your favourite CS jokes

Student corner
Health tips for the learning and exam period

View READ.ME May 2024 here

Faculty and staff
Farewell interview with Joachim Buhmann
Sandra Herkle's 15th anniversary at D-INFK

Prizes and awards
Markus Gross awarded Eurographics Gold Medal
Andreas Kuster wins student essay competition
VIS recognises best teaching assistants

Story of the month
"I want to build bridges between humans and machines"

Tips of the month
Design++ Summer School: AI in AEC
Help wanted

Events
CS Colloquium: Computational Models are the new Human-Computer Interface
CS Colloquium: The Rise of Reinforcement Learning (Theory): from One to Many
Nature and Science Festival
Poster Session "Interactive Machine Learning: Visualization & Explainability"

Reminder: Register now for the D-INFK Staff Party on 11 June

VMI Summer Retreat

Open positions and opportunities
CAS ETH in Cyber Security

Giggles & glimpses
Fun zone: Submit your favourite CS jokes

Student corner
VIS Grill & Drinks
Björn's 40th birthday

View READ.ME April 2024 here

Faculty and staff
Olga Sorkine-Hornung leaves the Executive Board

Prizes and awards
First place for ETH students at Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

Stories of the month
Decoding diversity
How fitness trackers can help people with MS
Artificial augmented creativity
Computer science made accessible to over 10,000 children
Knocking cloud security off its game

READ.ME survey

Tip of the month
Meet the Ambitious & Driven

Events
Save the Date: The D-INFK Summer Olympics 2024
Farewell lecture: Lernst du noch oder nutzt du schon KI?
Farewell lecture: Quo vadis education in the age of automation
Informatiktage 2024
CSNOW 30th anniversary event

Giggles & glimpses
Funny finds: exploring the campus

Student corner
Meet the new VIS board
wiegETHs survey
VISTA Grill & Drinks
ETH Competitive Programming Contest

View READ.ME March 2024 here

Faculty and staff
"Luck always plays a role in a research career", Prof. Dennis Hofheinz

Prizes and awards
Ueli Maurer chosen as SATW member
Fritz Kutter Prize

Stories of the month
Computer science as a core subject
New app unmasks forged documents
AI detects heart defects in newborns
Faster diagnosis of endometriosis with AI

Tip of the month
ETH Respect Programme

Events
Distinguished Colloquium
CSNOW: Shaping the Tomorrow of Women in Computer Science
Future of Paediatric Health Research Spotlight Day
Eco Hackathon AI Center

Giggles and glimpses
Spotted: the Information Security Group defying gravity

View READ.ME February 2024 here

Prizes and awards
ETH Medals for Master's graduates
Team dETHroners wins SWERC 2024

Stories of the month
Programme highlighs of the Informatiktage 2024: avatars, bits and cybercrime

Tip of the month
READ.ME survey

Events
Save the Date: D-INFK Staff Party 2024
ETH Global Lecture: Empowering Change
Distinguished Colloquium
ZISC: 20 years celebration
CSNOW Schnupperstudium
ETH Unterwegs

Giggles and glimpses
Working out in the office

Student corner
Introducing Sonia, your AI therapist

View READ.ME January 2024 here

Faculty and staff
Farewell, Emo Welzl
Farewell, Juraj Hromkovic
Changes of three institute heads
Interview with former Director of Studies Zhendong Su

Prizes and awards
Andreas Krause named ACM Fellow

Stories of the month
Launch of Interational Computation and AI Network (ICAIN) at the World Economic Forum 2024

Tips of the month
The Communication Academy
READ.ME survey coming soon

Events
ETH Global Lecture: Industrial Metaverse
ZISC: 20 years celebration
Informatiktage
Master's Graduation Ceremony

Giggles and glimpses
Winner lunch
Spotted

Project rETHink
The project concluded with the dissolution of the project organisation

View READ.ME Special edition here

Timeline

Video series – a conversation between Niklaus Wirth and Friedemann Mattern
"I always saw myself as an engineer"
"Switzerland had slept through it"
"You can't invent everything perfectly from the start"

From the archives
60 tons of computing power
When computers were still explainable
150 years ETH Zurich: Computer history

In memory of a remarkable scientist, colleague and friend

Visionary life: Niklaus Wirth in frames

Niklaus Wirth in the news