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Professor Menna El-Assady shines a torch into the black box of generative AI and talks about how a model makes decisions and whether we can correct them.

A research highlight in the December issue of Communications of the ACM is describing an award-winning publication from 2022 by Prof. Rasmus Kyng and Dr. Maximilian Probst Gutenberg from the Algorithms and Optimization Group at D-INFK and co-authors from Georgia Tech, Stanford, Waterloo and Toronto. The group developed an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs.  

With the full revision of the Matura Recognition Ordinance, which was passed by the Federal Council on 28 June 2023, Computer Science will finally become a basic subject at Swiss high schools.

Florian Tramèr is currently a doctoral student at Stanford University. Appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science, he will significantly improve the links between the Department’s research programmes in IT security and machine learning.

The rETHink project was launched by President Joël Mesot in 2020. More than 600 ETH members have participated in various capacities in the six workstreams so far. One of them is Andre Kahles, Senior Scientist in the Biomedical Informatics Group (BMI) in the Department of Computer Science.