READ.ME - Archive 2021

View READ.ME December 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Stelian Coros promoted to Associate Professor
Welcome, Javier Moya
Congratulations, Jacqueline Staub

Prizes and awards

Prof. Markus Gross appointed member of acatech
CYD Master Thesis Fellowship for Adalsteinn Jonsson

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Niklaus Wirth: "I always saw myself as an engineer"
Remo Gisi: "Paragliding is very algorithmic"
Flavio Pfaffhauser: "It was the perfect moment to take a leap"

Stories of the month

David Dao: The world is watching
Afra Amini: A critical view of the engine room

Upcoming events

36th Championship of Mathematical and Logical Games, until January 15, online

Past events

Distinguished Colloquium
Treffpunkt Science City

Please meet...

Sergey Prokudin, postdoc in the Computer Vision and Learning Group

Tips of the month

No PhDs at ETH
New regulations for the doctorate
food&lab closed in January
Image film "Where the future begins"

Latest COVID updates

Return to remote working and other restrictions
Tighter measures throughout Switzerland

View READ.ME November 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Zhikuan Zhao promoted to Senior Assistant
Astrit Thaqi reinforces Study Administration
Prof. Angelika Steger joins Prize Commission

Prizes and awards

Prof. Otmar Hilliges receives two lasting impact awards
Golden Owl for Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung
CYD Doctoral Fellowship for Alessandro Stolfo
ETH Medals for three doctoral theses

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Christian Plattner: “I wrote my Matura paper on polymorphic computer viruses”
How to get a faculty position
Cornelia Haldemann: "We were a mixed bunch"

Stories of the month

SCION, Cyber Security Master's programme: Swiss security policy in an unstable world
Association of Computer Science Students (VIS), D-INFK alumnus Alexandre de Spindler: "There was an unwritten rule: no first-year students allowed on the board"

Upcoming events

Glühwein Apéro, December 20, CAB
Distinguished Colloquium "Photorealistic Telepresence", December 6, online
Distinguished Colloquium "The Tensor-Relational Algebra, and Other Ideas in Machine Learning System Design", December 13, online
SCION Day 2022, January 26, online & Audi Max

Past events

ETH Unterwegs
Inaugural Lectures, 11 & 18 November
Global lecture with Prof. Markus Gross, 18 November

Please meet...

Emir İşman, Master's student and the President of the Association of Computer Science Students at ETH Zurich (VIS)

Tips of the month

Reduce overtime and holiday balances
Complete annual financial statements
Use new bike racks near CAB

Latest COVID updates

Space restriction lifted to facilitate return to the office
Recognition of vaccination certificates from abroad

View READ.ME October 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Welcome, Corine de Kater

Prizes and awards

Meet our four ESOP 2021 students
ETH Computer Sciences at the forefront
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for Marcin Copik
Jan Urech – CYD Master Thesis Fellow

Stories of the month

Prof. Shweta Shinde: Vulnerability discovered in Intel
Alumnus Mathias Wellig: "We still have the same close relationship"

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Carl August Zehnder: "You have to be careful that the loudest ones don't automatically get the most money"
Fredi Schmid: "We didn't want to be seen as contrarians who were just causing a commotion"
How computer science came to ETH
A reunion after (almost) 40 years

Upcoming events

Inaugural Lectures, November 11, Audi Max
Digital Einstein, November 15 - December 31, ETH Hönggerberg
Inaugural Lectures, November 18, Audi Max
Distinguished Colloquium "Cryptography from the Hardness of Kolmogorov Complexity", November 22, online

Past events

VIScon, October 15-17
Inaugural Lectures, October 18

Please meet...

Reto Grimm, contact for Real Estate Management at D-INFK

Tip of the month

Communication Academy

ETH Zurich campaign

Stand up for respect

rETHink

Join the discussion about ETH culture
Culture and values at D-INFK

Latest COVID updates

Free COVID tests for the ETH community
High vaccination rates at ETH Zurich

View READ.ME September 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Welcome, Professor Junbeom Hur
Welcome, Raphael Steiner
Congratulations, Leonel Aguilar Melgar

Prizes and awards

Facebook Research Award for Prof. Ana Klimovic
Prof. Peter Müller honoured with Amazon Research Award
2021 SIB Bioinformatics Award for Prof. Gunnar Rätsch and his team
Gagandeep Singh wins 2021 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award
2021 SCA Early Career Researcher Award for Vinicius Azevedo
Max Planck fellowship for Prof. Andreas Krause
Max Planck fellowship for Prof. Otmar Hilliges
Max Planck fellowship for Prof. Thomas Hofmann
Team flagbot: best European team at DEFCON CTF contest
LatticeFlow successful at #xTechGlobal AI Challenge
Ten D-INFK members and alumni named Digital Shapers 2021

Stories of the month

Prof. Kenny Paterson, Benjamin Bichsel, Prof. Martin Vechev: Computer scientists take on the quantum challenge
Matilda Backendal, Karel Kubicek, Dominik Winterer: VMI Summer Retreat 2021: science at leisure

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Carl August Zehnder: "There was a big urge to finally train computer scientists"
Stefan Nägeli: "It’s satisfying to get feedback from users at the end of the day"
From the archives: 60 tons of computing power
Anniversary event: How to get a faculty position

Upcoming events

VIScon, October 15-17, ETH Main Building
Inaugural Lectures, October 18, 17:15-19:00, Audi Max
Cyber Group Meet & Greet, October 20, online

Past events

Scientifica, September 4-5
ETH Industry Day, September 8
Study information days, September 8-9

Please meet...

Tony Joller, Studies Administrator at D-INFK

Tip of the month

Expand your network

Latest COVID updates

ETH rules on compulsory COVID certificates

View READ.ME August 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Welcome, Gene Tsudik
Farewell, Martin Oswald

Prizes and awards

Prof. Torsten Hoefler elected member of the Academia Europaea
ARD/ZDF Award for Pelin Dogan Schönberger
Facebook Research Award for Anwar Hithnawi

Forbes 30 Under 30  

Stories of the month

Andreas Krause, Torsten Hoefeler, Swiss Data Science Center: New, high-resolution models merge weather and climate

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Walter Gander: "Managers who know how to program are better managers"
Urs Hölzle: "Computer science is not a narrow career choice"
Back to 1981
Sarah Hauser: "I programmed a good solution in a dream once"

Upcoming events

Online World Math Contest, August 28
Paul Bernays Lectures, August 30-31 (Audimax, ETH Main Building)
Scientifica, September 3-5 (Campus Center, Irchel and Hönggerberg)
ETH Industry Day, September 8 (Campus Hönggerberg)
Funding for Innovation, September 8 (Campus Hönggerberg HPV G4)
Distinguished Colloquium, Autumn Semester 2021
AI+X Summit, October 15 (StageOne Event & Convention Hall Zurich)
VIScon, October 15-17 (ETH Main Building)

Past events

Pro Juventute summer course for girls, August 3-6

Please meet...

Barbara Pfändner, D-INFK department coordinator

Tip of the month

Getting academic positions (GAP)

Latest COVID updates

Ulrich Weidmann: Current coronavirus master plan only valid up to 5 September
The vaccination bus is coming to ETH

View READ.ME July 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Welcome, Barbara Gleich
All the best, Enis Ulqinaku

Prizes and awards

Zhendong Su elected member of the Academia Europaea
Goran Zuzic honoured with 2021 Dissertation Award

Stories of the month

Andreas Krause: "Trustworthy AI requires interdisciplinary collaboration"
Kenny Paterson, Igors Stepanovs: Four cryptographic vulnerabilities in Telegram
Julia: "I was moving out, but if also felt like coming home"

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Walter Gander: "We professors have the priviledge that our profession is also our hobby"
Daniel Schenk: "Enthusiasm for the subject always came first"
From the archives: the supercomputer Cray at ETH Zurich
Gabriela: "I still work with my fellow students to this day"

Upcoming events

VIScon Hackathon Registration
AI+X: Dialog on the Future of Retail with Siyu Tang
Paul Bernays Lectures
Schnupperstudium für Maturandinnen
Digital Festival Zürich

Please meet...

Anouk Paradis, doctoral student in the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab

Tips of the month

Reminder COVID vaccination

rETHink ETH

Andre Kahles: “The conversation about culture and values is open to all” 

Latest Corona updates

Students shouldn't have to bear the burden of the pandemic
June master plan still status quo

View READ.ME June 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Prof. Friedemann Mattern: “I wasn’t trying to save the world”
Farewel, Professor Läuchli
Selina O'Kerwin: Welcome
Locations: Who works where?

Prizes and awards

Andreas Krause awarded Rössler prize
Markus Gross wins Steven Anson Coons Award
Google Scholarship for Nezihe Merve Gürel

Stories of the month

Prof. Ce Zhang, Maurice Weber, Zhikuan Zhao: Early endeavours on the path to reliable quantum machine learning
Students from ETH Zurich and EFPL: Team "flagbot" qualifies for DEFCON finals
ETH AI Center: New video series on AI topics
Spin-off LatticeFlow: Trustworthy AI for mobility

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

"Studying computer science has led to interesting encounters" (Alumnus Florian Hanke)
WANTED: alumnae and alumni with distinguished or unusual careers in academia and industry

Past events

EGOI – the first European Olympiad in Informatics for women
Master’s graduation ceremony
ETH Game Programming Lab final presentations
Women in Data Science

Please meet...

Claudia Otto, Mobility Advisor D-INFK

Tips of the month

Follow our department on LinkedIn
Discard prohibited laser pointers

rETHink ETH

“rETHink has grown into a project for the entire university”
"Do nothing is not an option"

Latest Corona updates

Partial lifting of face mask requirement
Have a heart for vaccination

View READ.ME May 2021 here

Prizes and awards

First place at Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
Awards for excellent Master's graduates
D-INFK maintains global ranking

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

“Urban development has many parallels with computer science” (Alumnus Michael Baumer)
From the archives: Lilith workstation (Niklaus Wirth)

Stories of the month

Prof. Christian Holz, Paul Streli: AI touchscreen with super-resolution
Prof. Juraj Hromkovic: Of course it's for girls!
Prof. Gunnar Rätsch, Dr. Andre Kahles, Harun Mustafa, Mikhail Karasikov: ETH Zurich researchers participate in global study of city microbes

Past events

Distinguished Colloquium
Opening of the Design++ centre
Meet the Talent with our ESOP students

Tip of the month

Read D-INFK news in the ETH app

Please meet...

Chantal Winkelmann, contact person for D-INFK in the ETH Finance and Controlling division

Latest Corona updates

Working from home no longer compulsory
Weekly testing recommended for working on campus

View READ.ME April 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Nicola Rustignoli: Welcome
Runbin Shi: Welcome
Nora Hollenstein: All the best
Thomas Wick: Farewell

Prizes and awards

Jonas Rothfuss: 2021 Apple Scholar in AI/ML
Václav Volhejn: Second place in TCS CodeVita

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

Why computer science? (Students, alumni)
A programming langage conquers the world (Niklaus Wirth)

Stories of the month

Andreas Opedal, Giulia Lanzillotta, Daniel Garellick: Students find the answer with AI

Past events

Informatiktage 2021
Six month ETH AI center

Tip of the month

How to become a Wikipedia editor

Latest AEM release

Useful information and links

Please meet...

Hang Yu, postdoctoral researcher with Markus Püschel and Martin Vechev

Latest Corona updates

New master plan in action since April 26

View READ.ME March 2021 here

Faculty and staff

Fernando Perez Cruz new Adjunct Professor

Happy 40th anniversary, D-INFK!

40 years of growth and progres
A new science fights for its place

Stories of the month

Prof. Christina Pöpper, D-INFK alumna: "It's enormously exciting to be at the forefront of research"
Dr. Kristina Hostáková: "That’s when my heart started racing"
Prof. Christian Holz: Virtual reality at your fingertips
Simon Dünser: Getting curvy with styrofoam
Prof. Martin Vechev: Building the next generation AI systems
Natalie Barcicki, Data Scientist at the SDSC: Cool collaboration

D-INFK in the news

Dr. Rui Brandao, Chief Information Officer of ETH Zurich: «Für die Forschung ist es wichtig, dass sie Freiheiten hat» (IT Magazine)
Alexis Block, doctoral student: What to Do If People Laugh at Your Idea (Entrepreneur)
LatticeFlow, D-INFK spin-off: LatticeFlow hilft SBB beim Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (Wirtschaftsraum Zürich)
Prof. Adrian Perrig, Dr. Markus Legner, and Simon Scherrer: Footprints on the path - how routing data could reduce the internet's carbon toll (World Economic Forum)
Dr. Severin Hacker, D-INFK alumnus: Duolingo Expanding Its Languages And Trending Like Anything (StarupWorld)
Auterion, D-INFK spin-off, and Lorenz Meier, alumnus: Schweizer Drohnen-Entwickler erobern die USA (Der Bund)

Tip of the month

Choose your anniversary logo

Please meet...

Mukul Agarwal, Educational Developer for the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Latest Corona updates

All measures at ETH Zurich prolonged until April 18