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"We professors have the privilege that our profession is also our hobby" - Part 1/2

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Walter Gander

Prof. em. Walter Gander helped Switzerland acquire a high-performance computer, promoted the implementation of e-mail at ETH Zurich, and wrote the first book using LaTeX. In this interview with Lukas Fässler, high above the rooftops of Zurich, he talks about the beginnings of the Department of Computer Science and about a career that stretched from St. Gallen to Hong Kong.

28.07.2021 by Pauline Lüthi

Professor Zhendong Su elected member of the Academia Europaea

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Zhendong Su

Professor Zhendong Su is now a member of the Academia Europaea, a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. Congratulations!

26.07.2021

Daniel Schenker: “Enthusiasm for the subject always came first”

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Daniel Schenker plays the trumpet

Daniel Schenker received his diploma in computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988. Afterwards, he turned his hobby into his job and vice versa: today, he is a jazz musician and music professor who enjoys coding in his free time.

26.07.2021 by Anna Ettlin

“The conversation about culture and values is open to all”

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Andre Kahles

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.

22.07.2021 by Sandra Herkle

Four cryptographic vulnerabilities in Telegram

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Researchers from the Applied Cryptography group led by Professor Kenny Paterson collaborated with scientists from Royal Holloway, University of London to identify several cryptographic weaknesses in the popular messaging platform Telegram.

16.07.2021 by Marianne Lucien

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