30.11.21

New book “Age-appropriate Digital Channels” published by Springer

The new book "Age-appropriate Digital Channels" has been published by Springer Verlag on 25. November 2021. In this book Alireza Darvishy, Hans-Peter Hutter and Alexander Seifert have collected recommendations for age-appropriate design of websites…

11.11.21

New Project DataInc (Intelligent Data Integration and Cleaning) accepted by Innosuisse

Clean, reliable data is crucial to an increasingly digitized financial industry. We currently observe a lack of consistent, high-quality data across asset classes which requires costly and time-intensive human intervention. The researchers Branka…

17.09.21

The institute InIT at ZHAW takes part at HackZurich – Europe’s largest hackathon

Kate Kosten, Ursin Brunner and Kurt Stockinger will take part at HackZurich – Europe’s largest hackathon. The ZHAW researchers team up with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and…

29.06.21

ZHAW presents intuitive search engine for scientific datasets

The ZHAW School of Engineering has developed an intuitive search function as part of an EU project. This allows information, for example on cancer research or astrophysics, to be found and evaluated in huge databases. The INODE project is funded by…

28.06.21

Workshop on Accountability and Liability for 5G and Beyond by H2020 INSPIRE-5Gplus project

On 16th June 2021, H2020 INSPIRE-5Gplus project held a full-day online workshop on accountability and liability for 5G and Beyond, co-organized by ZHAW InIT Information Security Group. The objective of the workshop was to share, compare and…

22.06.21

Bio-SODA Enables Intuitive Search over Complex Bioinformatics Databases to Better Understand the Functionality of Genes

Analyzing complex bioinformatics databases that contain information about cancer research or the functionality of genes is very hard. Typically, only highly trained specialists can sift through the data efficiently while medical doctors, biologists…

07.06.21

Publication of the 5G-PPP White Paper with contributions from ZHAW InIT

ZHAW InIT contributes to the 5G-PPP’s white paper on “AI and ML Enablers for Beyond 5G Networks”.

10.05.21

Workshop of EU-project INODE (Intelligent Open Data Exploration)

The first international workshop on the progress of EU-project INODE (Intelligent Open Data Exploration) will take place on May 21 @ 10:00. ZHAW is leading house of the INODE project.

15.04.21

Open Educational Resources OER accessible designed

The ICT Accessibility Lab is involved in a four-year Swissuniversities project P8 with many other universities in Switzerland.

15.04.21

ICT Accessibility Lab in the Swissuniversities project P7 involved

The ICT Accessibility Lab is involved in the P7 Swissuniversities project "Accessible Teaching at Universities".

31.03.21

ZHAW launches Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning and Deep Learning have established themselves as major fields of research at the ZHAW School of Engineering. Scientific expertise around artificial intelligence is increasingly sought-after. By repositioning itself within the…

11.02.21

Allowing chatbots to talk to each other for research purposes

Machine dialogue systems should behave in a manner that is as human-like as possible. ZHAW researchers have now developed a new process for the reliable evaluation of such chatbots, enabling various systems to talk to each other and then be assessed.

19.01.21

First BRIDGE discovery project: PDF documents should be made more easily accessible

At present, making PDF files accessible to the visually impaired still entails too much manual effort. ZHAW researchers are developing a semi-automatic system to solve this problem. The project is being funded by the federal government’s special…

04.12.20

Checking contracts with artificial intelligence

The startup Legartis offers a software solution that legally analyses contracts in a matter of seconds. This helps companies in reproducing their own guidelines when drafting contracts. This innovative and efficient method was developed at the ZHAW…

17.07.20

“GraphQueryML: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Queries in Graph Databases” accepted by SNSF/DFG

The proposal “GraphQueryML: Using Machine Learning to Optimize Queries in Graph Databases" by Kurt Stockinger (ZHAW) and Michael Grossniklaus (University of Konstanz) was accepted by SNSF/DFG and thus will receive funding from the Swiss National…

05.06.19

ZHAW researchers develop revolutionary method to digitise sheet music

The new scanning method for musical notes represents a milestone in computer-aided object recognition. A digital music stand can now convert printed sheet music into machine-readable notes twice as precisely as was possible before.

10.04.18

COST Conference AI in Finance and Instustry

We aim to bring European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners together in Switzerland to discuss the application of Artificial Intelligence to various practical fields. In a broader context, we want to promote…