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Good companies are hard to find; good people with the highest potential can be even harder. But when both parties get together, then revolutionary things can happen – the kind of things that make a real impact by providing innovative technological solutions for complex challenges that people face around the globe. For years and at different levels of the business, Google and ETH have collaborated closely to achieve the maximum impact and value of their research and innovation.

Google is working with various universities and other institutions on Project Tango, an initiative to develop mobile devices that can detect surroundings in three dimensions and enable navigation indoors. The first devices are expected to hit the market next year. ETH Zurich has a significant role in the project.

The last 40 years have seen an explosion of innovation and economic growth within the biotechnology industry. For nearly the same amount of time, Prof. Gaston Gonnet has researched at the intersection between technology and life itself: in bioinformatics and computational biology.. In the light of his retirement, these lines pay homage to Prof. Gonnet’s academic achievements spent in the service of humanity.