Department of Informatics – DDIS

Three of this year’s PhD graduates where seen at the faculty’s graduation party recently sporting shirts, jackets, and even a tie was seen. Join us into congratulating Lorenz Fischer, Cosmin Basca, and Philip Stutz (from left to right in picture below) to their successful PhD.  

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Cosmin Basca, who just recently defended his thesis, will be joining ORACLE Labs in Zurich. This is a great success for Cosmin, who was researching federated triple-stores. Well done Cosmin!

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Since last week-end DDIS is also a cake. In our social get together a home-made cake with the DDIS logo was presented and appreciated for both its culinary and artistic value… Unfortunately, the cake did not survive the day as many hungry DDIS-members seemed to appreciate it just a little bit too much.

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Early this morning DDIS PhD student Amancio Bouza passed his PhD defense. He defended his thesis on Hypothesis-Based Collaborative Filtering. Congratuations!

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DDIS Graduate Katharina Reinecke wins the Mercator Dissertation award with her thesis “Culturally Adaptive User Interfaces“. The dissertation investigates how to build user interfaces that automatically adapt to a user’s cultural background. She finds that her approach significantly improves the users’ efficiency.

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Two DDIS PhD stduents – Lorenz Fischer and Philip Stutz – participated in a team that visulized the interests of Swiss parlimentarians using tag clouds.

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ZPAC and DDIS organized a event that explored the landscape of user interaction in Switzerland. The event, LUXS 2011, took place on Thursday, September 8, 2011

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