Remember NASA’s $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter mission in 1999? Its goal was to study Mars’ climate – specifically its atmospheric energy balance, carbon cycle, and the distribution of water and dust. All seemed well until the critical moment of
The dynamic geopolitics between the USA, Europe and China is characterized by intense economic and technological rivalries, summarized as the “rise of AI and fall of states”. The USA and China are at the center of a global race for
Hyperdigitalization and hyperautomation are processes that are fundamentally changing the way we work, live and interact. This profound transformation is based not only on individual technological advances, but on a complex interplay of several key components. At least five essential
In today’s digital era, where artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are becoming increasingly important, it is essential that companies and their employees prepare themselves for the new challenges and opportunities. A key aspect of this preparation is context-based AI application
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and corresponding “AI readiness”, it is crucial for the board of directors of modern companies to adapt their corporate culture and way of working in order to remain both innovative and competitive. While
In today’s digital world, which is also characterized by cybercrime, AI and disinformation, “Zero Trust, always verify” is no longer just an option, but a necessity in order to emerge as a winner and not a loser from the increasingly
In today’s digital era, automation, increased efficiency, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in general are not just buzzwords, but sometimes decisive factors for the medium/long-term success of companies and organisations worldwide. Despite the hype surrounding AI in particular, it
VIScon, a computer science fair organised by computer science students at ETH Zurich, took place again in 2024. Priska Altorfer, President of SIG donna informatica and SI member, was available as a mentor during the hackathon. Ayşegül Barlas was responsible
SI-SE, the special interest group on Software Engineering of SI, together with JUG, the Java User Group Switzerland, has organized an evening event on the topic “Will AI Replace Software Engineering?” on September 19, 2024 in Zurich, attended by over
The 2024 Helmut and Heide Balzert Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching and the didactics of Informatics has been given Wolfgang Pfeffer and Tobias Fuchs. Award ceremony on September 24, 2024 in Wiesbaden, Germany From left to right: Ulrike
The SI general assembly of May 16, 2024 has elected three new members to the SI Board:Dr. Sonia Duc (Senior Security Consultant at Adnovum in Lausanne)Dr. Gilbert Maître (RERO and HES-SO)Dr. Johann Sievering (CFPAA Ecole d’arts appliqués and owner of
As part of our SI Evening Talks series, we invited Michael Gauckler to share his knowledge on Bitcoin and the development of cryptocurrency with us in an online event titled „Bitcoin – The Perfect Currency?“ Michael was the Chief Product
The SI Evening Talk “Broadening our Horizons” was a great success, thanks to the insightful presentations and lively interactions between our speakers and participants. The event took place on February 1st at the Renaissance Zurich Tower Hotel and featured two experts
“To hell with AI”. Niklaus Wirth’s answer to a journalist’s question about his views on AI reminds me of the famous words by Albert Einstein „Gott würfelt nicht“ – ”God does not play dice”, when expressing his skepticism about quantum
SI mourns the loss of its former president, Helmar Burkhart, who passed away on December 17, 2023, at the age of 72. He was a professor of High-Performance and Web Computing at the University of Basel from 1987 to 2016
Imagine yourself working for a thriving small to medium-sized enterprise or a compact corporation operating in fiercely competitive markets. Now, picture yourself in a dynamic brainstorming workshop, joined by fifteen top-level managers. The workshop commences with a free-flowing brainstorming session,
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a new concept for identity management that shall be used in the Swiss E-ID which is currently under development. The main advantage of SSI is that it better protects the users’ privacy than classical identity solutions
This year, SI celebrates its 40th anniversary with a gala event for its members on November 17 in Bern. While Switzerland was among the pioneers in Computer Science research in Europe and Swiss companies were among the early adopters of
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,
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
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
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
Thursday 27th April, 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 in Geneva. Join us for another instalment in our SI Evening Talk series on the topic of «Agile: From Piracy to Slavery», this time in Geneva. Agile practices offer a flexible approach to
Digital transformation is very similar to analogue transformation, that is to those analogue transformations that imply fundamental cultural changes because individuals must adapt their practices and communities must adapt their narratives. Therefore, we can learn from the great transformations in
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.
Thursday 16th February, 2023 17:00-18:30 (UTC+1)Online Although the Swiss E-ID failed at the ballot in 2021, a form of digital identification still appears key to furthering Swiss interests in a digital age. Is the question of E-ID also on your
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
In the scope of the initiative www.it-feuer.ch the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) publishes portraits of women in IT from June to December 2021. SI has been looking for female role models and found many women who have made their
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
https://magazine.swissinformatics.org/membership/registration Networking As an SI member, you are part of a respected and active network of computer scientists and IT professionals. As a member of SI you are able to join one or more of the SI Special Interest Groups (SIG). Events Members receive invitations to SI’s
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),
Remember NASA’s $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter mission in 1999? Its goal was to study Mars’ climate – specifically its atmospheric energy balance, carbon cycle, and the distribution of water and dust. All seemed well until the critical moment of
The dynamic geopolitics between the USA, Europe and China is characterized by intense economic and technological rivalries, summarized as the “rise of AI and fall of states”. The USA and China are at the center of a global race for
Hyperdigitalization and hyperautomation are processes that are fundamentally changing the way we work, live and interact. This profound transformation is based not only on individual technological advances, but on a complex interplay of several key components. At least five essential
In today’s digital era, where artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are becoming increasingly important, it is essential that companies and their employees prepare themselves for the new challenges and opportunities. A key aspect of this preparation is context-based AI application
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and corresponding “AI readiness”, it is crucial for the board of directors of modern companies to adapt their corporate culture and way of working in order to remain both innovative and competitive. While
In today’s digital world, which is also characterized by cybercrime, AI and disinformation, “Zero Trust, always verify” is no longer just an option, but a necessity in order to emerge as a winner and not a loser from the increasingly
In today’s digital era, automation, increased efficiency, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in general are not just buzzwords, but sometimes decisive factors for the medium/long-term success of companies and organisations worldwide. Despite the hype surrounding AI in particular, it
VIScon, a computer science fair organised by computer science students at ETH Zurich, took place again in 2024. Priska Altorfer, President of SIG donna informatica and SI member, was available as a mentor during the hackathon. Ayşegül Barlas was responsible
SI-SE, the special interest group on Software Engineering of SI, together with JUG, the Java User Group Switzerland, has organized an evening event on the topic “Will AI Replace Software Engineering?” on September 19, 2024 in Zurich, attended by over
The 2024 Helmut and Heide Balzert Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching and the didactics of Informatics has been given Wolfgang Pfeffer and Tobias Fuchs. Award ceremony on September 24, 2024 in Wiesbaden, Germany From left to right: Ulrike
The SI general assembly of May 16, 2024 has elected three new members to the SI Board:Dr. Sonia Duc (Senior Security Consultant at Adnovum in Lausanne)Dr. Gilbert Maître (RERO and HES-SO)Dr. Johann Sievering (CFPAA Ecole d’arts appliqués and owner of
As part of our SI Evening Talks series, we invited Michael Gauckler to share his knowledge on Bitcoin and the development of cryptocurrency with us in an online event titled „Bitcoin – The Perfect Currency?“ Michael was the Chief Product
The SI Evening Talk “Broadening our Horizons” was a great success, thanks to the insightful presentations and lively interactions between our speakers and participants. The event took place on February 1st at the Renaissance Zurich Tower Hotel and featured two experts
“To hell with AI”. Niklaus Wirth’s answer to a journalist’s question about his views on AI reminds me of the famous words by Albert Einstein „Gott würfelt nicht“ – ”God does not play dice”, when expressing his skepticism about quantum
SI mourns the loss of its former president, Helmar Burkhart, who passed away on December 17, 2023, at the age of 72. He was a professor of High-Performance and Web Computing at the University of Basel from 1987 to 2016
Imagine yourself working for a thriving small to medium-sized enterprise or a compact corporation operating in fiercely competitive markets. Now, picture yourself in a dynamic brainstorming workshop, joined by fifteen top-level managers. The workshop commences with a free-flowing brainstorming session,
Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is a new concept for identity management that shall be used in the Swiss E-ID which is currently under development. The main advantage of SSI is that it better protects the users’ privacy than classical identity solutions
This year, SI celebrates its 40th anniversary with a gala event for its members on November 17 in Bern. While Switzerland was among the pioneers in Computer Science research in Europe and Swiss companies were among the early adopters of
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,
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
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
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
Thursday 27th April, 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 in Geneva. Join us for another instalment in our SI Evening Talk series on the topic of «Agile: From Piracy to Slavery», this time in Geneva. Agile practices offer a flexible approach to
Digital transformation is very similar to analogue transformation, that is to those analogue transformations that imply fundamental cultural changes because individuals must adapt their practices and communities must adapt their narratives. Therefore, we can learn from the great transformations in
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.
Thursday 16th February, 2023 17:00-18:30 (UTC+1)Online Although the Swiss E-ID failed at the ballot in 2021, a form of digital identification still appears key to furthering Swiss interests in a digital age. Is the question of E-ID also on your
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
In the scope of the initiative www.it-feuer.ch the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) publishes portraits of women in IT from June to December 2021. SI has been looking for female role models and found many women who have made their
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
https://magazine.swissinformatics.org/membership/registration Networking As an SI member, you are part of a respected and active network of computer scientists and IT professionals. As a member of SI you are able to join one or more of the SI Special Interest Groups (SIG). Events Members receive invitations to SI’s
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),
The Swiss Informatics Society SI is the association of Informatics professionals in Switzerland.
Die Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft SI ist der Verband der Informatikfachleute in der Schweiz.
La Société Suisse d’Informatique SI est l’association des professionnels de l’informatique en Suisse.
La Società Svizzera di Informatica SI è l’associazione dei professionisti dell’informatica in Svizzera.
