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Professors Emo Welzl and David Haussler have received the Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG) Test of Time Award for a paper with long-term impact they published 34 years ago. 

One of the most prestigious prizes in the area of theoretical computer science has been awarded to Robin Moser for his algorithmic version of the Lovász Local Lemma.

We are proud to announce that Professor Markus Püschel has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognised for contributions to the implementation of signal processing techniques.

Congratulations to Ioana Giurgiu, Oriana Riva, Dejan Juric, Ivan Krivulev, and Gustavo Alonso who have been awarded the Test-of-Time Award of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference 2019 for their paper “Calling the Cloud: Enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications", published in Middleware 2009.

Congratulations to Prof. Srdjan Capkun for receiving this fellowship for his contributions to systems and wireless network security. Its most prestigious member grade, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) annually recognises the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology as well as their service to the computing community.

Congratulations to Marcin Copik as well as Grzegorz Kwasniewski and team for winning major student awards at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) in Denver, USA.

Postdoctoral researcher Felix Günther received this significant award in the field of computer and information security at the 26th ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference in London, UK.

Prof. Andreas Krause and five further authors were honoured with lifetime achievement in their approach to outbreak detection, featured in their research paper "Cost-Effective Outbreak Detection in Networks".

This February, Professor Peter Widmayer received professor emeritus status after 27 year of teaching and research at ETH Zurich. D-INFK says thank you.

On January 24, 2019, Tal Ben-Nun was named one of 2019’s 30 most influential people in technology under the age of 30 (“30 under 30”) by Forbes Israel.

D-INFK is headed to Davos during the World Economic Forum, January 22-25. A visit to ETH Zurich's Pavilion will have you RETHINKING DESIGN in an entirely new context: design your own robot, meet SAM the soft robotic hand, and play a video game you built yourself.

Postdoctoral researcher Alex Summers of Prof. Peter Müller's Chair of Programming Methodology has received the junior AITO Dahl-​Nygaard Prize for his work on the verification of object-​oriented programs and type systems. In the interview, he talks about computer science and his passion for it.

The last 40 years have seen an explosion of innovation and economic growth within the biotechnology industry. For nearly the same amount of time, Prof. Gaston Gonnet has researched at the intersection between technology and life itself: in bioinformatics and computational biology.. In the light of his retirement, these lines pay homage to Prof. Gonnet’s academic achievements spent in the service of humanity.

ETH and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have joined forces to form a research network in learning systems.

Knowledge is not only a privilege but also a responsibility. Prof. Bernd Gärtner, Dr. Petra Adamaszek and their "Kinderlabor" (Laboratory for Children) bring scientific MINT subjects closer to individuals at the ETH hosted event "Treffpunkt Science City". Through the laboratory’s dedication towards young learners, disciplines such as computer science become both distributed and accessible. The benefits reach far into business, industry, and society.