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QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) unveiled its 2024 World University Rankings by Subject. ETH Zurich landed with 3 subjects in the top spot. A further 14 placed within the top ten in the world, among them Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (rank 7) and Computer Science and Information Systems (rank 9).

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a smartphone app that can be used to check the authenticity of documents and other items. Extracts from the debt enforcement register of the City of Zurich are being made forgery-​proof as part of a pilot project.

Theodoros Rekatsinas joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in May 2022 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Get to know him in this short interview.

ETH computer scientists Debopam Bhattacherjee and Prof. Ankit Singla are proposing a novel network design that could double the network capacity of “Internet from space” systems.

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

So called dark data are documents that machines cannot read. In cooperation with Zurich Insurance, Professor Ce Zhang brings light into the dark. 

Ankit Singla joined the Department of Computer Science as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the beginning of 2016. He joins us fresh from his doctoral research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-​Champaign, USA. His research interests are in the areas of computer networks, including internet architecture and data center networks, with particular regard to the efficiency of networking infrastructures and protocols.

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.

Every year, ACM recognizes some of its members for their contribution to computing. In 2012, two D-INFK Professors have been elected to the grade of Fellow: Prof. Gustavo Alonso for contributions to distributed systems, middleware, and data management, Prof. Markus Gross for contributions to computer graphics and animation.

In this interview, Professor Donald Kossmann talks about how his research tackles global challenges and what the title of ACM Fellow means to him.

Every year, the Fritz Kutter fund awards outstanding industry-​related theses in computer science. In 2010, René Müller, a former doctoral student with Prof. Alonso, received this sought-​after prize. Currently based at the IBM Research Center in Almaden, René came over to Zurich on November 22 to take home his "trophy" – a good opportunity to talk to him about his passion for research, visions and how he would make Zurich a better place for IT.

Prof. Gustavo Alonso has recently received the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award. This award has been established for the author(s) whose paper appeared in the VLDB conference 10 years ago and has had the most impact on database research since then. In the interview, Prof. Alonso talks on the significance of this award and the impact of his remarkable research achievements on society, as well as business and industry.