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Gabriela Hug and Christian Schaffner: critical electricity situation in Switzerland
How realistic is a blackout in Switzerland? And what should be done if it does happen? Christian Schaffner and Prof. Gabriela Hug provide the answers.
Prof. Taekwang Jang has received an SNSF Starting Grant
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded nine SNSF Starting Grants to researchers who plan to carry out their projects at ETH Zurich starting next year. Prof. Taekwang Jang, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Integrated Systems, receives the grant for his project "Millimeter-scale Secure and Intelligent Computer Class for Internet of Everything".
Minesh Patel from the SAFARI research group receives an ETH Doctoral Medal
We’d like to congratulate Minesh Patel on receiving an ETH Doctoral Medal for his outstanding Doctoral thesis. Minesh’s dissertation, "Enabling Effective Error Mitigation in Modern Memory Chips that Use On-Die Error-Correcting Codes" was nominated by D-ITET and will be presented at the Doctoral Awards Ceremony in January 2023.
Prof. Hua Wang was elevated to the IEEE Fellow Class 2023
Hua Wang, Professor of Electronics at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, was elevated to the IEEE Fellow Class 2023 for contributions to high-efficiency microwave and millimeter-wave power amplifiers. Congratulations!
The Golden Owl for COMSEC
The student association of ETH Zurich has awarded D-ITET’s 2022 Golden Owl to the COMSEC group for good teaching. Congratulations!
Roger Wattenhofer on more energy-efficient cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoins are now also being used to pay taxes. The disadvantage: Bitcoins in particular require far too much energy. Prof. Roger Wattenhofer knows more environmentally conscious alternatives for this.
2022 Google Security and Privacy Research Award
Prof. Onur Mutlu was recently honored by Google with a 2022 Google Security and Privacy Research Award for his work on hardware security and side-channels. This award recognizes the work done by Mutlu and his team, the SAFARI Research Group, for making significant, recent contributions to protecting users across the Internet, especially for their work on the discovery of the DRAM RowHammer vulnerability.
New X-ray method for detecting breast cancer raises high hopes
The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is currently having a prototype built for better early detection and treatment of breast cancer. The novel and painless X-ray procedure was co-developed by Marco Stampanoni, researcher at PSI and Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. It depicts breast tissue much more precisely than is possible today with conventional mammography. It thus prevents false cancer diagnoses in particular, but also facilitates treatment.