02.12.22

Zurich Applied Digital Health Center funded by DIZH

The ZHAW Datalab and the ZHAW Digital Health Lab will work together with University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital in the project Zurich Applied Digital Health Center. The project is funded by DIZH (Digital Initiative Zurich) with close…

07.09.22

DIZH Structure «Cyber Resilience Network for the Canton of Zurich» approved

The «Cyber Resilience Network for the Canton of Zurich» is one of four interdisciplinary innovation structures that will be funded during the next five years by the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). InIT…

13.04.22

Die Angreifersicht: Hinter dem Perimeter

Die Erfahrungen der jüngsten Zeit lehren, dass Netzwerksicherheit nun verstärkt proaktiv angegangen werden muss. Um das zu demonstrieren, haben die Narrowin AG und der Schwerpunkt Infomation Security des InIT ein Gerät zur einfachen Demonstration von…

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…

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.

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…