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Monitoring and treating a case of multiple sclerosis requires reliable and long-​term data on how the disease is progressing in the person in question. Fitness trackers and smartphones can supply this data, as a research team led by ETH Zurich has now shown.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way in which art is created and experienced. Are we at the beginning of a new artistic revolution? Or at the end of creativity as we know it? Adrian Christopher Notz from the ETH AI Center puts things in perspective.

Flink Robotics, a newly founded D-INFK spin-off, is crafting cutting-edge software for next-generation robots to enable automation anywhere and for everyone. Professor Stelian Coros, doctoral student Simon Huber and former postdoc Moritz Geilinger are the co-founders.

ETH spin-​off dAIgnose is developing an algorithm that can be used to analyse ultrasound images of the womb on an automated basis. This should enable doctors to diagnose endometriosis more quickly in the future.

The seventh edition of the Informatiktage will take place from 18 to 23 March 2024. The Department of Computer Science and the IT Services of ETH Zurich are once again participating as partners this year. The carefully curated programme offers something for everyone – from curious beginners to experienced experts.

From 15 to 19 January 2024, the AI House in Davos brought together industry leaders, tech founders, researchers, companies, investors and political decision-makers to discuss the impact of AI on the world. ETH Zurich was one of the initiators of the event with its AI Centre. Watch the sessions with our professors Andreas Krause, Menna El-Assady, Florian Tramèr and many others now.

Professor Andreas Krause from the Department of Computer Science has been named ACM Fellow for his contributions to learning-based decision making under uncertainty. Big congratulations!

A broad survey of students at ETH Zurich shows: Language models are still rarely used in the classroom, but they are used frequently and creatively as learning aids.

IBM and ETH Zurich announce a Discovery Accelerator Hub within the ETH AI Center, as ETH joins the AI Alliance.

Lindt & Sprüngli, a global leader in the premium chocolate sector, has partnered with EthonAI. The company is a spin-off from the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics and has Bernhard Kratzwald, an alumnus from the Department of Computer Science on board as a co-founder. Lindt & Sprüngli is leveraging EthonAI's tools to perfect the production of their chocolate and achieve best-in-class performance.

Studying Data Science at ETH Zurich means being part of one of the most exciting driving forces of today’s Information Age. To gain deeper insights into the field, we have talked to various students, professors, and an alumna. In these video conversations, the interviewees elaborate on the growing need and importance of data science – both now and in the future.

The United Nations has launched a global AI Advisory Body to work on risks, opportunities and international governance of the technology. Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the ETH AI Center, is amongst the appointed experts. Congratulations!

Experts from ETH Zurich including Professor Gunnar Rätsch, the University of Zurich, and the University Hospital Zurich have used machine learning to jointly create an innovative method. This new approach can predict how individual cells react to specific treatments, offering hope for more accurate diagnoses and therapeutics.

Mennatallah El-Assady, a Research Fellow at ETH Zurich, has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. She works at the intersection of data analysis, visualisation, computational linguistics and explainable artificial intelligence. Her research delivers an innovative methodology that contributes to creating explainable, robust and versatile AI. 

The German Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation has awarded its 2023 Digital Award to four outstanding digital communications projects. Among the winners is ETH Zurich (2nd place) with the game "Morph Tales", developed by D-INFK members.

The Morphs are here! The smart, eager-​to-learn creatures are now waiting in the ETH main building for players to train them. "Morph Tales - Exploring Artificial Intelligence" is a new game from ETH Zurich that is fun to play and shows how humans and AI master tasks together.

In an open letter, tech luminaries from the worlds of science and industry are calling for a freeze on training new AI models that are more powerful than GPT-​4. ETH AI experts Andreas Krause and Alexander Ilic from the ETH Zurich AI Center consider this to be difficult to enforce and associated with risks.  

From 27 March to 1 April 2023, the Informatiktage (Computer Science Days) will take place in the Greater Zurich Area for the sixth time. The Department of Computer Science and ETH Zurich’s IT Services will be hosting a variety of workshops, talks, and exhibits showcasing some of the latest technologies.

Are we witnessing the rise of a different, adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) that works with humans and supports them with smart decisions? Computer scientist Niao He is investigating how this kind of AI can be theoretically underpinned so that it really does provide benefits.

ETH AI Center fellow Elvis Nava teaches robots to carry out oral and written commands. To this end, he sends them to “training camps” where they learn to combine image, text and motion data.

Thanks to the generous support of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, ETH is able to establish two new professorships at the interface of education, digital transformation and artificial intelligence and boost the fellowship programmes of the ETH AI Center by funding 20 additional fellows.

Game developers from the ETH Game Technology Center have created an app that explains bone remodelling in a playful way. If students point the camera of their mobile device at the textbook, they find themselves transported to the bone’s surface, where they help cells break down bone tissue.

Data contains much more than just the information on the surface. With statistics, deeper cause-​and-effect relationships can be brought to light. This is what Alexander Marx is researching as a Fellow at the ETH AI Center using artificial intelligence. One of his goals is to be able to make predictions regarding diabetes in children.

Today, in partnership with ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology (INSAIT) has been launched in Sofia. Professor Martin Vechev from the Department of Computer Science has supported the initiative from the beginning.

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!

Mennatallah El-​Assady develops explainable AI programs that explain their own workings – and let users provide input. Her speciality is interactive information visualisation, a skill she has brought to the AI Center of ETH Zurich, where she was recently appointed a Pioneer Fellow. Her work can help analysts take a deep dive into political debate.  

When algorithms reinforce biases: doctoral student Afra Amini is studying automated human language processing and its pitfalls.

Collaboration between talented members of multidisciplinary teams provides the best foundation for innovative, useful and trustworthy applications of artificial intelligence. This has been demonstrated at a joint event by ETH Entrepreneur Club and the ETH AI Center.

How transparent are decisions that are based on artificial intelligence and machine learning? Professor Andreas Krause, Chair of the ETH AI Center and head of the Learning and Adaptive Systems group, shares his thoughts on trustworthy artificial intelligence.

In safety-​critical applications like railway inspection, the use of deep neural networks is limited today. SBB, Siemens Mobility, ETH AI Center and the spin-​off LatticeFlow from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich joined forces to make artificial intelligence trustworthy.

Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Academic Co-Director of the Swiss Data Science Center and Chair of the ETH AI Center, has been honoured with the Rössler Prize.

The future quantum computers should be capable of super-​fast and reliable computation. Researchers at the DS3Lab conduct an early exploration for reliable quantum machine learning.

The newly opened ETH AI Center intensifies the dialogue with business, politics and society about an innovative and trust-​building advancement of artificial intelligence.

Alexander Ilic is the Executive Director of the newly founded ETH AI Center, which will open officially on October 20. What motivated the entrepreneur to return to ETH Zurich?

ETH Zurich promotes innovation in AI technology. This includes the extension of its partnership with the Max Planck Society, the launch of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and the opening of the ETH AI Center. Professors Thomas Hofmann and Andreas Krause are at the forefront of these efforts.