READ.ME - department newsletter

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

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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
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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