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Swiss Students win Bronze at Central-European Olympiad in Informatics
- sidm
- 23 August 2023
• Mitteilung •
Swiss students win at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics
- sidm
- 23 August 2023
• Artikel •
Data for the benefit of the patient – A retrospective
- Iris Zeyda & Christian Schwab
- 07 Februar 2023
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SI Evening Talks 2022
The SI organises two Evening Talks and invites knowledgeable contributors to discuss hot topics and other timely issues related to IT. It is all about interesting debates, networking and a delicious Apéro to close the evening! SI Evening Talk on the New Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (nFDPA): Application and […]
Swiss Students win Bronze at Central-European Olympiad in Informatics
Two students from the Swiss team won bronze at the 30th Central-European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI 2023).Yaël Arn (Gymnasium Bäumlihof BS) and Elias Bauer (Kollegium St. Fidelis NW) won bronze medals with ranks 19 and 24, respectively. The other two members of the Swiss team were Andrej Ševera and Jovian […]
Swiss students win at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics
Swiss students were highly successful at the third European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI). Jasmin Studer (Gymnasium Lerbermatt, BE) from Erlach, Switzerland, made it to 10th place out of 186 participants. For this achievement, she received a gold medal, an award she had narrowly missed at last year’s olympiad in […]
New SI Board Members Elected
During its general assembly of May 11, 2023, two new board members of the Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft (SI) were elected: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Full Professor at the University of Geneva and Director of Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI), and Kurt Munter, Head of the Computer Studies Department, CIO and member of […]
SITC 2023 was a huge success!
On May 11th 2023, the SI welcomed both its members and non-SI members to this year’s Swiss IT Congress on electronic identity (E-ID) in Bern (sitem-insel building). We listened to our wonderful speakers and had fruitful discussions on how E-ID is developing in Switzerland. Special thanks to our speakers, Rolf […]
Editor’s Pick
• Artikel •
- Iris Zeyda & Christian Schwab
- 21 Mai 2023
Agile: From Piracy to Slavery – A Retrospective
As part of our SI Evening Talk series, a series of events where we facilitate discussion of various IT topics, SI invited Danilo Biella to Geneva to share his perspectives on the current state of Agile. SI Evening Talk by Danilo Biellaon April 27, 2023 at Forum Genève Danilo […]
• Artikel •
- Susanne Datzko
- 11 Oktober 2022
Grundlagen der Informatik entdecken mit dem Informatik-Biber Wettbewerb
Auch im Jahr 2021 rätselten in der ganzen Schweiz über 36’000 Kinder und Jugendliche beim Infomatik-Biber Wettbewerb. Seit zwölf Jahren organisiert ein Team aus Informatikerinnen, Informatikern und Lehrpersonen aus der ganzen Schweiz einen Online-Wettbewerb, der die Grundlagen der Informatik in einer Geschichte verpackt, Schülerinnen und Schülern von Primarschule bis Gymnasium […]
• Artikel •
- Nataliia Stulova
- 11 Juli 2022
The Curious Case of Software Documentation
Many programmers share the viewpoint “code is documentation enough” and do not invest time and effort into documenting their code. However, absent software documentation often is a sign of cognitive biases and poor management practices, rather than source code clarity. In turn, such attitude leads to an increase of cognitive […]
• Standpunkt •
- Reinhard Riedl
- 5 April 2022
The Trust Shifts
Everyone seems to agree that digital transformation has a trust problem, but few try to look behind the curtain: What is the nature of the problem? Trust is one of those concepts that can endlessly be discussed without any conclusions or impact. Like freedom. The analysis of language practice tells […]
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- Digital Arts & Technology SIG
- 19 April 2021
The Art of the Blockchain
Das Akronym NTF steht für non-fungible token ist eine, die Grenzen in der digitalen Welt zu überschreiten. Ein NTF ist eine Einheit von Daten auf einer Blockchain gespeichert, so dass es als einzigartige und nicht austauschbare digitale Asset zertifiziert. Obwohl NFTs verwendet werden können, um Elemente wie Fotos, Videos, Audio […]