UZH Institut für Informatik

Congratulations to Tarek Alakmeh, research assistant at the Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab, and Amos Calamida, master’s student in Artificial Intelligence.  Atomic, a Task and Note Taking System, has been selected for the UZH Innovation Grant! The project is conducted under the supervision of Thomas Fritz. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e8hm5EhM

Clara-Maria Barth, PhD student at the Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group and People and Computing Lab (IfI), co-organized together with Alexander Lill (IfI, Human Aspects of Software Engineering Lab) and Federica Zavattaro the DSI Health Innovathon. Researchers and professionals from industry acted as mentors and provided datasets, and real-world scenarios. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eNKrq8hk

Autonomous robots that assist humans in everyday life are a long-standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science.  Join us tomorrow to hear Jan Peters from the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In his talk, he will discuss a general framework suitable for learning motor skills in robotics. Talk: «Inductive Biases for Robot Reinforcement Learning»  Date: 19 December 2024 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Colloquium program: https://lnkd.in/eXjZAKAv #ificolloquium #research #ifiuzh

Paul Ferdinand Safari has been awarded an FS2024 Semester Award! The Bachelor's thesis «RecRef, a Reflection-Promoting Visual Analytics Tool for Athletic Training and Recovery» was conducted under the supervision of Juergen Bernard and Gabriela Morgenshtern. This thesis extends beyond theoretical contributions, offering practical implications for athletic coaching, sports technology, and health professionals. Read more: https://lnkd.in/edc-WQKB

Congratulations to Desheng Hu (He/Him) from the Social Computing Group led by Aniko Hannak. The paper «Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search's Market Shares Under Vertical Segmentation» has won the Best Paper Honorable Mention at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Buffalo, USA. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ezaDD3hy

Christopher P.E. Zollikofer and Marcia Ponce de León, former researchers at the Department of Informatics, have been studying with their team the evolution of humans for years. The latest study has just been published by «Nature». The international team of researchers used advanced imaging techniques to analyze the dental microstructure of an 1.77 million-year-old fossil of early Homo from Georgia. The new evidence overturns the old theory that childhood evolved because of our large brains. It now appears that our larger brains evolved because of an extended childhood. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gT4zVpQ6 #imaging #techniques #fossil #ifiuzh #uzh

Congratulations! 👏 Read more about this software solution: https://lnkd.in/ebyNWQJJ #masterthesis #semesteraward #ifiuzh #uzh

Join us for the IfI Colloquium to hear Martin Maier from the Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montréal. In his talk, he will explore the benefits of abandoning the path dependence of today’s Turing-derived anthropomorphic (i.e., human-like) AI vision. Talk: «Exiting the Anthropocene: From Today’s Anthropomorphic AI to Tomorrow’s Non-Anthropocentric ‹NaturAlien AI›»  Date: 5 December 2024 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Colloquium program: https://lnkd.in/eXjZAKAv #ificolloquium #research #ifiuzh

Join us for the next IfI Research Talk and meet Sven Helmer, senior researcher from the Database Technology Group. He will show how to make the Software Heritage Archive more accessible. Talk: «Beyond Relational Data: Trees, DAGs, and Graphs» Date: 4 December 2024 Time: 13:15 - 13:45 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Program: https://lnkd.in/efQTiN48 #researchtalkseries #ifiuzh #uzh

Join us for the IfI Colloquium to hear Michael Cochez from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.  In his talk, he will introduce how graph-based knowledge can be used by machine learning systems, retaining both flexibility and robustness. Talk: «Knowledge Infused Learning»  Date: 21 November 2024 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Location: BIN 2.A.01, Campus Oerlikon Colloquium program: https://lnkd.in/eXjZAKAv #ificolloquium #research #ifiuzh