Computer Science
"We don't just procure a new computer"
Research
ETH Zurich
The flagship supercomputer of the CSCS, "Piz Daint", needs to be replaced. Installation of the successor computer, "Alps", is taking place in three phases and will be completed in 2023. CSCS Director Thomas Schulthess explains in an interview why the new computer is so special.
Virtual reality at your fingertips
Research
ETH Zurich
When a person taps with their fingers, each finger generates a different vibration profile propagating to the wrist through bones. ETH Zurich researchers have now leveraged this discovery in the development of a dual-sensor wristband that brings intuitive free-hand interaction to virtual productivity spaces.
Cells as computers
Research
ETH Zurich
Scientists at ETH Zurich are working to develop information-processing switching systems in biological cells. Now, for the first time, they have developed an OR switch in human cells that reacts to different signals.
Call for transparency
Politics
ETH Zurich
The turbulence created by speculation in GameStop shares has highlighted the lack of transparency on trading platforms. Roger Wattenhofer, Professor of Distributed Computing at ETH Zurich, thinks it is time for a change, and calls for more open data not just in financial transactions, but in many other areas.
Crossing the artificial intelligence thin red line?
Politics
EPFL
EPFL computer science professor tells conference that AI has no legitimate roll in defining, implementing, or enforcing public policy.
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