Data Sciences
ESA comes to Switzerland
Research
PSI
The European Space Agency ESA has a new point of contact in Switzerland: ESA and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have launched the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre ESDI. It is now located in the immediate vicinity of PSI, in Park Innovaare.
Stranger Danger and extremist online communities
Research
EPFL
New EPFL research has found that the exchange of comments between members and non-members of fringe communities (fringe-interactions) on mainstream online platforms attracts new members to these extremist groups. It has also suggested potential ways to curtail this growth.
A collaboration to push the boundaries of cosmos mapping
Research
EPFL
EPFL officially joined the Multi Spectroscopic Telescope (MUST) project, led by China’s Tsinghua University, as a founding member. This flagship project will enable scientists to better understand the young universe, dark energy and dark matter.
Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
Research
ETH Zurich
Rasmus Kyng has written the near-perfect algorithm. It computes the maximum transport flow at minimum cost for any kind of network – be it rail, road or electricity – at a speed that is, mathematically speaking, impossible to beat.
Digi, Nano, Bio, Neuro – or why we should care more about converging technologies
Politics
ETH Zurich
Dirk Helbing expects future digital technologies to penetrate the human body even more in the future. However, he believes that society is not prepared for the risks involved. He puts forward a new legal framework to protect our most intimate data from misuse.
AI – Avalanche Intelligence at the SLF
Research
WSL
Machine-trained algorithms assess the current avalanche situation just as well as humans – with different strengths and weaknesses.
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