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WebConferencing: Einfach loslegen bis systemisch angehen
- Daniel Stoller-Schai
- 07 May 2020
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Protected: Discovering the Basics of Computing with the Informatics Beaver Competition
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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 […]
New SI Board Members Elected
On its general assembly of May 12, 2022, the Swiss Informatics Society SI has elected/re-elected its board and president for a two-year term (2022-2024). Francis Baud has been re-elected as president of SI. Nora Sleumer and Iris Zeyda have been elected as new SI Board members. The board members […]
SI General Assembly 2022
On May 12, 2022, SI has held its annual general assembly. The main topics were: – The election/re-election of the president and the SI Board, – The legally required topics (such as the annual reports by the president and the treasurer, discharge of the board and approving the […]
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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 […]
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- Digital Arts & Technology SIG
- 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 […]
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- Wayne de Fremery
- 4 April 2021
Abstracting Digital Documents to Think about Cultural Preservation
The textual scholar and literary critic Jerome McGann begins his most recent book with the following: “Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated and reedited in digital forms and institutional structures.”[1] McGann emphasizes the enormous consequences of this […]
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- IT & Society
- 18 March 2021
Facial Recognition: Statement of the SI Expert Group “Informatics & Society”
As the SI’s specialist group “Informatics and Society“, we recommend banning facial recognition with the potential for mass surveillance in public spaces. Not only because of the known and in many places described shortcomings of the technology (discrimination, false recognition), but especially because of the inhibiting effects on democratic processes […]
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- Susanne Datzko
- 28 February 2021
Record participation in the Swiss IT Biber Competition
Launched in Lithuania in 2003 by Prof. Valentina Dagienė of Vilnius University, the BEBRAS competition aims to get children and young people excited about computer science and promote computational thinking. Worldwide, nearly 3 million students from 54 countries participated in the competition in 2019. From the pool of tasks designed […]