Image rendering test
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Balzert Award 2022
This year’s Helmut and Heide Balzert Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching and the Didactics of Informatics has been given to Stefan Seegerer. Award ceremony on September 29, 2022 in HamburgMiddle: the award winner Stefan Seegerer.From left to right: Martin Glinz (SI Board Member), Helmut and Heide Balzert (Award […]
GI Dissertation Award for 2021
This year’s GI Dissertation Award has been given to three PhD students who have defended their thesis in 2021. Award ceremony on September 29, 2022 in HamburgMiddle, from left: the winners Markus Hecher, Moritz Lipp and Alejandro Molina Ramirez. Left: Jörg Desel (GI Vice-President), Martin Glinz (SI Board Member). Right: […]
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Test Post 1
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Helmut & Heide Balzert Award
Helmut and Heide Balzert have endowed an award for outstanding contributions to the teaching of Informatics. The award is sponsored by the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the Swiss Informatics Society (SI). The goal of the award is to promote and […]
SITC 2022 Held Successfully
The SITC 2022 on the topic of IT Education in Switzerland was held successfully on March 10, 2022 in the Aula Magna of the University of Fribourg. The Swiss IT Congress (SITC) is a yearly symposium organized by the Swiss Informatics Society SI for its members. The goal of […]
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 […]