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Discovering the Basics of Computing with the Informatics Beaver Competition
- Susanne Datzko
- 11 October 2022
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SI Evening Talks 2022
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SI Evening Talk: Data for the Benefit of the Patient
Tuesday November 29, 2022 17:30-20:00isolutions AG, The Circle 38, 8058 Zurich (Airport) The use of patient data is a controversial topic. The main question is: Why is it so complicated to leverage patient data in order to improve care pathways? Dr. Elke Mittendorf, Data Governance Manager, University Hospital Zurich“How can […]
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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 […]
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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 […]