Press – Department of Informatics – DDIS https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group Mon, 02 May 2022 13:43:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Abraham Bernstein and Michael Böhlen Interviewed on NFP75 Project https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2022/05/02/abraham-bernstein-and-michael-bohlen-interviewed-on-nfp75-project/ Mon, 02 May 2022 13:37:22 +0000 https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=745 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.

]]> 2018 – The DDIS Summary https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2018/12/20/2018-the-ddis-summary/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:09:06 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=511 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 helps transition more pleasantly into this technological area. When data has semantic knowledge captured in it, such as in the semantic web, large graph processing allows to use this enriched data. Increasingly, data is not just static anymore; stream processing deals with the continuous stream of new data being generated.

The different research areas and number of publications per (combined) area in 2018.
Types of publications in 2018

Events

There were many events DDIS organised or helped, including the following:

Conferences

  • CI 2018 & HCOMP 2018 were cohosted at the University of Zurich. 
  • At Wikicon, Cristina Sarasua gave a keynote talk and participated in the panel discussion, and was interviewed by the Luzerner Zeitung for the occasion. 
Cristina Sarasua being interviewed by journalists at WikiCon

Workshops

  • Invitation based workshop on stream reasoning , co-organized by Daniel Dell’Aglio
  • CrowdBias 2018 @ HCOMP: Cristina Sarasua co-organized this workshop and edited the proceedings
  • Web Stream Processing workshop @ WWW: Daniele Dell’Aglio co-organized this workshop and edited the proceedings.  
  • Linked Data Experience workshop at DINAcon, co-organized by Cristina Sarasua
CrowdBias 2018

Hackathons

Wikidata Hackathon

Other events

Employees and Students

DDIS consists of senior staff, regular PhD students and PhD students in a joined cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL). Over the last year, DDIS has decreased its size due to successful PhD students graduating: Shen Gao, Michael Feldman, Tobias Grubenmann and Bibek Paudel. However, the trend will be increasing again, after two new PhD students joined: Narges Ashena and Romana Pernischová. In fact, we are currently looking for a postdoc and PhD student so, do not hesitate to message us if you are interested or forward it to someone who is!

DDIS Group Composition in 2018

Various courses were supported or provided by DDIS:

Besides courses, the group offers the possibility to pursue master and bachelor theses, as well as master projects (which are part of the master’s program at the faculty). 

Successfully completed student supervision in 2018
]]> ‘Everyone should learn how to deal with data’ https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2018/03/07/everyone-should-learn-how-to-deal-with-data/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:43:48 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=408 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 coding, and more importantly, how to deal with data. To read the entire article, click here (article in German).

Which skills are needed in the 21st century? How should digitisation change our education? Source: Asut

 

 

]]> Digital Democracy – Too risky or the chance of a generation? https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2018/01/25/digital-democracy-too-risky-or-the-chance-of-a-generation/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:59:08 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=401 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 of signatures”. More about the current state of the debate can be found here.

Democracy and political engagement right in your pocket?

 

]]> Abraham Bernstein on SRF Radio about digitalisation and politics https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2017/12/14/abraham-bernstein-on-srf-radio-about-digitalisation-and-politics/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:31:31 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=394 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 the available technology. More people can be involved in the debates around political issues using tech, an opinion he also expresses with other researchers in their manifesto on digital democracy. The radio fragment can be found here (German audio and text).

What if voting was only one click away? Image Source

]]> Abraham Bernstein interviewed in Swiss Radio about the future of shopping https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2017/07/04/abraham-bernstein-interviewed-in-swiss-radio-about-the-future-of-shopping/ Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:25:57 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=335 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).

 

]]> Abraham Bernstein interviewed on computer poker breakthrough https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2017/02/14/abraham-bernstein-interviewed-on-computer-poker-breakthrough/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:20:07 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=332 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

]]> ViSTA-TV at the European Data Conference and Abraham Bernstein on Greek TV https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2014/03/26/vista-tv-at-the-european-data-conference-and-abraham-bernstein-on-greek-tv/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:40:38 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=210 European Data Forum Logo_0
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.

On March 19, Abraham Bernstein gave a overview talk about ViSTA-TV. The talk was filmed by Videolectures.net but has not been posted yet. We will be posting a link to the video as soon as it will be available.

In addition, Abraham Bernstein was interviewed by the Greek Public Television channel. The interview, which was part of a report that also contains with the two main organisers and with Marta Nagy-Rothengass, the Head of Unit Data Value Chain within the EC’s DG CONNECT (which finances ViSTA-TV) , provides a succinct overview of ViSTA-TV and sheds light on some possible uses of the VISTA-TV results. The interview is available both as part of the report and on YouTube.

]]> MOOC Effort mentioned on UZH Homepage https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/11/23/mooc-effort-mentioned-on-uzh-homepage/ Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:10:48 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=195 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.

UZH-Home-Page (copy taken on November 23, 2013)

]]> The online professor – interview with Abraham Bernstein on Swiss radio SRF https://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/2013/11/05/the-online-professor-interview-with-abraham-bernstein-on-swiss-radio-srf/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:56:44 +0000 http://www.uzh.ch/blog/ifi-ddis/?p=192 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 his experiences with MOOCS both in German (towards the end of the broadcast) and Swiss German.

The full URLs are:

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