Department of Informatics – DDIS

Abraham Bernstein and Michael Böhlen were recently interviewed on their SNF NFP 75 project Privacy-preserving, stream analytics for non-computer scientists. The interview highlight the main takeaways of the project.

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Research 2018 has been a turbulent and exciting year, and has provided many opportunities to do exciting research. More and more data is being produced, which calls for data mining & machine learning to make sense of this data. Technology is becoming more ubiquitous, and research on human computer interaction & computer supported cooperative work […]

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For their first news bulletin of 2018, Swiss ICT association Asut interviewed Prof. Bernstein concerning the theme ‘Kids and Codes: education for a digital world’. In this interview, Prof. Bernstein expressed the opinion that in our current information society, it is important for people to learn the skills necessary to deal with digitalisation, such as […]

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In an article on SWI Swissinfo.ch on the risks and chances of a digital democracy, Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein gives his view on the matter. He argues in favour of “making citizens aware of political issues online and via smartphones, fostering discussions, getting quick feedback from the people on political issues, and simplifying the collection […]

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Increasing digitalisation is happening in many different domains in Switzerland, but politics does not seem to be among them (yet). In radio show ‘Heute Morgen’ on SRF1, different experts were asked about how digitalisation could impact politics in Switzerland. Abraham Bernstein thinks politicians should be more courageous and adapt partially obsolete political processes by using […]

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How can Machine Learning improve shopping? Are chat-bots going to take over all user interaction? Prof. Abraham Bernstein in an Radio interview at the Swiss Public Radio:  Wirtschaftsmagazin «Trend» vom 1. Juli 2017 (starting about Minute 20).  

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This past week, Swiss National Radio quoted Abraham Bernstein on the ramifications of the recent breakthrough in computer poker. You can read and listen to the article at: https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/der-mensch-verliert-sein-poker-gesicht

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Last week DDIS representatives visited the European Data Forum (EDF) in Athens. Apart from many personal and informal interactions with other forum participants the project was presented in two different contexts.

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The DDIS MOOC effort was mentioned on the UZH Home-Page yesterday. The UZH News-Entry highlights the opportunity that MOOCs might offer to increase the interactivity of traditional classroom settings.

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Abraham Bernstein is the first professor in the German-speaking part of Switzerland who offers one of his lectures as a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). His course “Informatik für Ökonomen” had a successful start on October 16, 2013 and is being followed by 2’600 participants up to now. Swiss Public Radio Interviewed him about the course and […]

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