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Korea Telecom CEO: I envision a world where everything is connected with 5G
Yesterday a talk about 5G technology with Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang from South Korea was hosted by D-ITET and ETH Global. The CEO of KT Corporation (Korea Telecom) spoke on how 5G will change our everyday life. Adapting a quote from Nobel Laureate, Dennis Gabor, he said, "The future is not to be predicted, but created ... and we have to be the one's to create it."
Large media coverage on PermaSense
Jan Beutel from the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) takes a look back on the past ten years working on the PermaSense project. National and international media have recently regularly reported on the network of wireless sensors on the Matterhorn’s Hörnli ridge.
Welcome Event for new doctoral students
On 9 October 2019, the D-ITET Welcome Event for new doctoral students took place. At the event, about 50 participants received a lot of useful information from several presenters and sources.
Olivia Faull receives Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for research on anxiety
Dr. Olivia Faull, postdoc in the Translational Neuromodeling Unit, a joint institution of ETH Zurich and University of Zurich within the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi. The fellowship seeks to attract, retain and develop New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career researchers and support their career development by helping them to establish a track record for future research leadership.
"Deep neural networks work like a Swiss army knife"
Prof. Helmut Bölcskei, Professor of Mathematical Information Science, explains in our interview how mathematics could advance deep learning over the next few years, why artificial intelligence does not scare him and what he particularly appreciates about ETH Zurich.
Three Professors of D-ITET among the 100 most important Digital Shapers 2019
For the fourth time now, the Swiss business magazine "Bilanz" has selected the 100 most influential digital shapers in Switzerland. No less than three professors from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich are among the prize winners: Gian-Luca Bona ("Thinkers" category), Lothar Thiele ("Data Miners" category") and Roger Wattenhofer ("Blockchainers" category).
Marco Pocaterra receives Best Paper Award
Marco Pocaterra and Dr. Mauro Ciappa from the Integrated Systems Laboratory received the Best Paper Award at the 30th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices (ESREF).