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Swiss Students win Bronze at Central-European Olympiad in Informatics
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- 23 August 2023
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Swiss students win at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics
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- 23 August 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 […]
Digital Transformation – Part Two: Educating Leaders
Imagine yourself working for a thriving small to medium-sized enterprise or a compact corporation operating in fiercely competitive markets. Now, picture yourself in a dynamic brainstorming workshop, joined by fifteen top-level managers. The workshop commences with a free-flowing brainstorming session, where each participant envisions and shares their digital transformation ideas. […]
Self-Sovereign Identities: Challenges and Chances
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a new concept for identity management that shall be used in the Swiss E-ID which is currently under development. The main advantage of SSI is that it better protects the users’ privacy than classical identity solutions do. In September 2021, the Federal Council defined the principles […]
SI 40th Anniversary Celebration
This year, SI celebrates its 40th anniversary with a gala event for its members on November 17 in Bern. While Switzerland was among the pioneers in Computer Science research in Europe and Swiss companies were among the early adopters of information technology, it took until 1980 for universities and ETHs […]
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 […]
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- Iris Zeyda & Christian Schwab
- 21 May 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 […]
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- Susanne Datzko
- 11 October 2022
Discovering the Basics of Computing with the Informatics Beaver Competition
In 2021, over 36,000 schoolchildren from 479 schools throughout Switzerland participated the Informatics Beaver competition. For the past 12 years, a team of computer scientists and teachers from all over Switzerland has been organizing an online competition that puts the basics of computer science into a story for children and […]
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- Nataliia Stulova
- 11 July 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 […]
• Viewpoint •
- 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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- 19 April 2021
The Art of the Blockchain
The acronym NTF stands for non-fungible token is one that is crossing boundaries in the digital world. An NTF is a unit of data stored on a blockchain so that it certifies as unique and non-interchangeable digital asset. Although, NFTs can be used to represent items such as photos, videos, audio […]