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    Facial Recognition: Statement of the SI Expert Group “Informatics & Society”

    18/03/2021 0
    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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    SwissCovid App – viele Stärken, einige Schwächen

    23/06/2020 0
    Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hat zehn Kriterien zur Beurteilung von Contact Tracing Apps vorgelegt. Sechs dieser Kriterien werden von der SwissCovid App erfüllt, vier werden teilweise erfüllt. Die Grafik fasst die Bewertung anhand der CCC-Kriterien zusammen. Sie zeigt, dass sich die Entwickler der App erfolgreich Mühe gegeben haben, die [...]

SI Readers Column: Arthur Clay

SI Readers Column: Edy Portmann & Hans-Georg Fill

SI Readers Column: Reinhard Riedl

SI Readers Column: Fridel Rickenbacher

SI News

  • SITC 2022

    14/10/2021 0
        The SITC 2022 on the topic of IT Education in Switzerland will be held on March 10, 2022 in the Aula Magna of [...]
  • Swiss IT Congress 2021 moved to March 10, 2022

    SITC 2021

    18/08/2021 0
    The Swiss IT Congress (SITC), formerly known as the Swiss Digital Summit (SDS), is a yearly symposium organized by the Swiss Informatics Society SI. The [...]
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    SI participates in the IT Fire Initiative

    31/03/2021 0
    The SI Board has decided on 31 March 2021 to participate in the IT-Fire initiative (IT-Feuer / IT tout feu tout flamme / La fiamma [...]
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    Malte Helmert of SGAICO recognised as AAAI Fellow

    09/03/2021 0
    Each year, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) recognizes a small number of fellows for their unusual distinction in the profession and [...]
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    Dangerous mathematics?

    02/03/2021 0
    Algorithms are ubiquitous in our society. They automate human thought and decision processes with the help of mathematical formulas. But how rational are these data-based [...]

SWISS DIGITAL SUMMIT 2020 – Part 5

Swiss Digital Summit 2020 – Part 5
The Swiss Digital Summit was created with the goal of informing the public of trends and new achievements in IT. Researchers from all over the world present their research in a language to be understood by the public in general, while keeping the scientific depth at the highest academic level. The next edition of this event rebranded as Swiss IT Congress (SITC 2022) will be held on the 10th of March 2022 in Fribourg on the theme of “IT Education in Switzerland”. We invite you to revive last year’s summit which main theme was Digital transformation in economy and society. Here is Part 5 of this video series : you will hear the presentation of Prof Haya Shulman, Director Cybersecurity and Analytics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt & Scientific Leader of the Fraunhofer Project Center for Cybersecurity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel „Who owns that digital resource? On the security of ownership validation in the Internet”. Video credits: Mr. Fredy Schwyter.

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Art of the Blockchain

The acronym NTF stands for non-fungible token is one that is crossing boundaries in the digital world. Although, NFTs can be used to represent many items, but it was its novel application in the digital arts and the resultant high-profile sales on cryptocurrency marketplace that have given acronym a headline status.

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