The University of Zurich (UZH) is strengthening research and teaching on digital transformation. It is creating seven new professorships that will work on important digital topics such as cybersecurity, urban analytics and the sociology of digitalisation. Hardly any area of social and economic life remains untouched by the digital transformation.… Read More »New Digital Professorships at the University of Zurich
This year, the DSI has joined forces with the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich. Together, the scientists:inside are exploring the question: “Artificial intelligence in medicine – where do we want to go?” A deliberate interdisciplinary and participatory approach was taken to predict the interaction of humans and AI… Read More »AI in medicine
Hoda Allahbakhshi, Researcher at the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), has won a new citizen science project with the Departement of Geography of the University of Zurich. It is a collaboration with the City of Zurich titled «How to make the city smarter and more inclusive with and for citizens?» and… Read More »New citizen science project
The DSI professors conduct research on the causes, consequences and future scenarios of the digital transformation of society and science. We are pleased to introduce three new faces:Sascha Schneider joined DSI in February 2022 and focuses on Educational Technology.Alexandre Bovet joined DSI in July 2022 and focuses on “Quantitative Network… Read More »Three new DSI professors
How can people remain at the center of the medicine of the future when a lot of data is brought together, chatbots act as coaches and digital twins support prevention and therapy? Author: Claudia M. Witt Artificial intelligence (AI) will become part of medical care – but how far should… Read More »AI in medicine – knowledge is in demand
Starting signal for the next round: From now on and until January 15, 2023, new and prospective doctoral students of UZH can apply for a place in the Excellence Program. This year, the DSI will again award scholarships. The Excellence Program is a complementary curriculum to a doctoral program. The program… Read More »DSI Excellence Program
https://youtu.be/xHk13Y_MTBM What happens when you cross educational institutions with videogames? Serious games! In other words, games that not only provide entertainment, but also convey information or education. On November 17, the five Zurich universities demonstrated in the Nüü, the event space for digital transformation of the ZHAW, using self-developed games,… Read More »Gaming for Good
The second UZH Innovathon, organized by the UZH Innovation Hub and the Digital Society Initiative, has successfully concluded. The events of the course took place between Sept. 14th and Oct. 25th with an Innovathon weekend where students could intensely focus on their work in the Ginetta co-working space. Nine ambitious student teams… Read More »Innovathon 2022: The Digitalization of Mobility
This article was first published on the ZHAW Digital Futures Lab blog. The interview was conducted by Johanna Seiwald (ZHAW digital). Congratulations Dr. Lilach Goren Huber for winning the Best Presentation Award and DIZH fellow Dr. Jürg Meierhofer for the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) this year! The SDS is… Read More »And the Awards go to … Smart Services and Predictive Maintenance
For the fourth time the DIZH Fellowships are awarded to outstanding ZHAW researchers who will work in cross-university research clusters on interdisciplinary digital transformation projects . Since the first call in 2019, a total of 35 fellows have been selected so far. The seven new fellows will start their projects from January onwards in… Read More »Artificial intelligence, art, biotechnology and more: 7 new fellowships