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At the Symposium on Geometry Processing, Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung received a test-of-time award for a paper she wrote fifteen years ago. Congratulations!

Manuela Fischer, former doctoral student at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, receives the 2022 ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congratulations!  

At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022, professor Adrian Perrig and his colleagues received a test-of-time award for their first publication on the SCION network technology. Perrig heads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science and is the inventor of SCION. Congratulations!  

Kristina Hostáková, postdoc in the Foundations of Cryptography Group at the Department of Computer Science was given the CAST/GI Promotion Award IT-Sicherheit. The award honours doctoral theses that promote advancements in IT security and make IT applications more secure.

Professor Otmar Hilliges from the Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems and Professor Martin Vechev from the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems receive ERC Consolidator Grants for their respective research projects. The mid-career award is given to outstanding researchers with highly promising scientific track records. Congratulations!

Professor Ankit Singla, head of the Network Design Lab, is leaving ETH Zurich to take on a new role with Google.

Since June 2020, Professor Kenny Paterson has represented the Department of Computer Science in the Commission for Good Scientific Practice at ETH Zurich. In this interview, he talks about the role of scientists and scientific integrity in computer science.

Flavio Pfaffhauser completed his Master's degree in computer science at ETH Zurich in 2010. Today, as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) and co-founder of the ETH spin-off Beekeeper, it is his mission to take the rising software provider to the top of the world.

As one of the first computer science students at ETH Zurich, Cornelia Haldemann began her studies in 1981 and graduated in 1987. Today, she heads the product data management of an internationally active Swiss company and, after many years of work, meets change with serenity.

For her excellent teaching, Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung, head of the Interactive Geometry Lab, receives the Golden Owl 2021. Congratulations!

Two research teams from ETH Zurich, led by Gunnar Rätsch and Karsten Borgwardt, won the 2021 SIB Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award. Their paper is about predicting circulatory failure in the intensive care with the aid of machine learning. Congratulations!

Gagandeep Singh, former doctoral student at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, received the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award for his work on building safe and robust AI systems. Congratulations!

Stefan Nägeli completed his Master's degree in computer science at ETH Zurich in 2006. As co-founder and CTO of swisspeers AG, he now uses his skills to solve complex business problems in the finance software industry.

Vinicius Azevedo, research scientist at DisneyResearch|Studios in Zurich, was honoured with the 2021 SCA Early Career Researcher Award. Congratulations!

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the computer science study programme at ETH Zurich, we look back to 1981 and explore what made the world go round back then. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

Postdoc Goran Zuzic from the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science received the 2021 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congratulations!

From June 13 to 19, 2021, the first European Olympiad in Informatics for Women, EGOI, took place in Zurich. The organising committee and the participants look back on instructive, intensive, and unforgettable days.

The ETH CTF (Capture the Flag) team “flagbot”, led by computer science student and VIS committee chairman Leonardo Galli, has qualified for the CTF finals in Las Vegas in August at DEFCON, the world’s largest hacker convention.

Prof. David Basin, Dr. Jorge Toro Pozo and Dr. Ralf Sasse from the Information Security Group receive the IEEE Best Practical Paper Award for their publication "The EMV Standard: Break, Fix, Verify".

The ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2021 lists the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich as the fifth-​best computer science department. D-​INFK has maintained rank five since 2019.

Six Master's graduates from the Department of Computer Science have been honored with a distinction for their outstanding Master's theses and grades: four ETH Medals and two Willi Studer Prizes. Many congratulations to Anouk, David, Lara, Lenart, Stefan and Thomas!

In 1970, Professor emeritus Niklaus Wirth designed the programming language Pascal. It became one of the most popular teaching languages and shaped programming languages to come.

The doctoral student Jonas Rothfuss of the Learning and Adaptive Systems Group lead by Professor A. Krause receives an Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.

This year again, the ETH Department of Computer Science participates in the Informatiktage and offers fascinating insights into the world of compter science for both teachers and pupils.

Kristina Hostáková joined Professor Dennis Hofheinz’s research group at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science last December as a postdoc. In this interview, she talks about asymmetric cryptography, her experiences on the path to ETH Zurich and the promotion of women in computer science.

Together with Selina Stoffel, a student at the PH Graubünden, ETH student Fabrizio Reich trains young minds to succeed in robotics competitions in the First Lego League FLL.

Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Professor Torsten Hoefler have been honoured with an ERC Consolidator Grant for the outstanding work in their respective research field.

The majority of multiple sclerosis patients consider fatigue the single most wearing symptom. And yet, fatigue is still poorly understood. Doctoral student Liliana Barrios wants to change that by introducing smartphone-based methods enabling patients to measure their motor fatigability remotely and more frequently.

Like many other students these days, VIS President Jonathan Chen is working from home. In this interview, he talks about his new routine, the positive effects of the coronavirus and how VIS supports all students at the Department of Computer Science.

Congratulations to Prof. Onur Mutlu for receiving the prestigious award given for innovative and impactful contributions to computer memory systems.

Professor Peter Müller, the retiring Director of Studies of the Department of Computer Science, looks back on two and a half years in office and takes stock. In this interview, he talks about the highlights of his job and how teaching has changed at D-INFK.

Marina Draskovic came to us from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and spent her Student Summer Research Fellowship (SSRF) as part of Professor Friedemann Mattern’s team, where she helped develop an app that measures fatigability in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Six students of the Department of Computer Science were awarded with an Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) scholarship. Congratulations!

For the second time, computer science students at ETH Zurich are organizing VIScon – a unique combination of a symposium and a hackathon. The three-day event, packed with talks, workshops and coding, enables students to get a deeper insight into computer science, engineering and entrepreneurship.

For the fourth time, an eleven-person jury from the Swiss business magazine BILANZ has selected the one hundred most important brains at the forefront of digitalisation – Professor Srdjan Capkun, Professor Andreas Krause and alumnus Dr. Lorenz Meier are amongst them.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Academy honours Prof. Markus Gross with a membership for his contributions in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Professor Thomas Gross is retiring at the end of July, but will still continue to support the department in teaching.

20 international students explore their favourite research topic while working within a research group at the Department of Computer Science.

The 2019 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award goes to Prof. Onur Mutlu for "innovative contributions in efficient and secure DRAM systems".

This year's ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award goes to Prof. Martin Vechev for his contributions in the area of programming languages.

Debopam Bhattacherjee and Professor Ankit Singla explore the design of an internet that operates at the speed of light.

In June 2018, the start-​up ChainSecurity released Securify, a novel tool that enables an easier and more thorough scanning process for smart contracts in the Ethereum ecosystem. Dr Petar Tsankov, chief scientist at ChainSecurity and research scientist at ETH Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab at the Department of Computer Science, gives an insight into the novel technology and its benefits.

Out of a pool of over 1’200 applicants, fifteen highly talented computer science students from all around the world were chosen to participate in ETH’s first Student Summer Research Fellowship (SSRF) program.

Human-​computer interaction, machine vision, performance and energy scalability, mobile computing, and data center optimization – these are some of the most significant challenges that computer science will have to face in the years to come. In the Microsoft Research - Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research, EPFL and ETH Zurich, science and industry try to tackle these challenges together. Professor Gustavo Alonso elaborates.