D-INFK news channel

His dissertation in biophysics led Joachim Buhmann into the then still exotic terrain of machine learning in the mid-1980s. Since 2003, when he became an ETH professor, he has helped shape the explosive development of his field. It is not technical progress that worries him, but how society deals with it. Shortly before his retirement, he looks back on his academic career, in which, in addition to teaching and research, administrative functions have also been of great importance.