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Loric Herbé, a Data Science master’s student at D-INFK, attended the “Interdisciplinary School on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Science” in June 2025 at the emerging ETH Zurich Campus in Heilbronn, Germany. The event gathered talents from around the world to explore cutting-edge applications of machine learning in science. In the latest ETH Ambassadors blog post, Loric shares insights from the week and reflects on Heilbronn’s potential as a future AI research hub in Europe.

Thinking logically, solving problems, and telling the computer what to do: These are the strengths of the roughly 330 participants of the International Olympiad in Informatics. The 37th edition of this programming competition for young people took place from 27 July to 3 August in Sucre, Bolivia. All four members of the Swiss delegation received a medal or award.

Women compete for medals not only in soccer – but also in computer science. At the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI), held from 14–20 July in Germany, a participant from Geneva won Switzerland’s second-ever gold medal since the competition was founded four years ago. Mixed Swiss teams also saw recent success, for example at the Western European Olympiad in Informatics, where they earned seven medals, including gold for a student from Geneva.

It is with great regret that we announce the resignation of our esteemed colleague Otmar Hilliges, full professor of computer science. He left the Department of Computer Science and ETH Zurich at the end of June 2025 due to illness.