• Point de vue •
Digital Transformation (1): Getting Participation Right
- Reinhard Riedl
- 15 mars 2023
• Article •
Data for the benefit of the patient – A retrospective
- Iris Zeyda & Christian Schwab
- 07 février 2023
Latest Posts
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 […]
New SI Board Members Elected
During its general assembly of May 11, 2023, two new board members of the Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft (SI) were elected: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Full Professor at the University of Geneva and Director of Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI), and Kurt Munter, Head of the Computer Studies Department, CIO and member of […]
SITC 2023 was a huge success!
On May 11th 2023, the SI welcomed both its members and non-SI members to this year’s Swiss IT Congress on electronic identity (E-ID) in Bern (sitem-insel building). We listened to our wonderful speakers and had fruitful discussions on how E-ID is developing in Switzerland. Special thanks to our speakers, Rolf […]
Swiss IT-Congress 2023
The Swiss Informatics Society hosts this year‘sSwiss IT Congress (SITC) on “E-ID in Switzerland” on May 11th, 2023 at sitem-insel in Bern, starting at 11:00 am. Come and hear about the Swiss government‘s E-ID plans, countries that have already implemented some form of E-ID and academic views and applications. The […]
Attend the SI General Assembly 2023
This year’s General Assembly of SI will take place on May 11, 2023 in Bern. Time: 09:00-11:00. Location: sitem-insel, Freiburgerstrasse 3, 3010 Bern. All SI members are kindly invited to attend. After the GA, from 11:20 to 17:20, the Swiss IT-Congress on “E-ID in Switzerland” will be held at the […]
Editor’s Pick
• Article •
- Iris Zeyda & Christian Schwab
- 7 février 2023
Data for the benefit of the patient – A retrospective
In the series of SI evening talks, the talk of November 29, 2022 featured a hot topic: How can medical data be collected and used for the benefit of the patients and in a way that preserves the patients’ privacy. SI Evening Talk of November 29, 2022 at isolutions AG.From […]
• Communication •
- sidm
- 25 novembre 2022
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 […]
• Article •
- Susanne Datzko
- 11 octobre 2022
Grundlagen der Informatik entdecken mit dem Informatik-Biber Wettbewerb
Auch im Jahr 2021 rätselten in der ganzen Schweiz über 36’000 Kinder und Jugendliche beim Infomatik-Biber Wettbewerb. Seit zwölf Jahren organisiert ein Team aus Informatikerinnen, Informatikern und Lehrpersonen aus der ganzen Schweiz einen Online-Wettbewerb, der die Grundlagen der Informatik in einer Geschichte verpackt, Schülerinnen und Schülern von Primarschule bis Gymnasium […]
• Article •
- Nataliia Stulova
- 11 juillet 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 […]
• Ressource •
- Digital Arts & Technology SIG
- 19 avril 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 […]