25.10.18

Winner of ALTA 2018 Challenge

Fernando Benites a member of datalab won the ALTA 2018 challenge on Kaggle. Goal of the competition was to classify patent applications automatically, based on provided training data. Fernando and his team ("BMZ") outperformed 13 other teams…

15.10.18

Proceedings of SwissText 2018

We are pleased to announce that the conference proceedings of the SwissText 2018, the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference, are online now: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2226 In the proceedings, we gathered eight scientific papers, two invited Swiss…

11.10.18

Datalab in Silicon Valley

Datalab co-organizes a Data Science event in Silicon Valley as part of „Zurich meets San Francisco“. Datalab is represented by Kurt Stockinger. The event takes place on October 25 at 13:00 in San Jose, California. For more details…

10.10.18

PhD Network in Data Science

The PhD Network in Data Science offers students in Switzerland with a master degree (including degrees from an university of applied sciences) the opportunity to obtain a PhD in cooperation between a university of applied sciences and a university.…

08.09.18

Digital Health Conference

The topic of the ZHAW's "Life in Numbers" conference is "Digital Health - Digital Technology for Innovating Health Care". This conference, organised by the Institute for Applied Simulation (IAS), covers a wide range of topics in the field of…

20.06.18

Deep Learning Day 2018

Dear deep learning enthusiasts, We had great fun organizing the first deep learning day 2016 and deep learning day 2017 and are pleased to announce the Deep Learning Day 2018 in September 14th https://tensorchiefs.github.io/dlday2018/ - the…

22.01.18

SwissText 2018 - submit a presentation

We invite you to submit a presentation to the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2018), which takes place on June 12-13 in Winterthur. Please see below for details on presentations types and how you can contribute to the…

14.01.18

Big Data Project presented in new official video of ZHAW

Our SNF Big Data Project on Bio-SODA was recently presented in the new official video of ZHAW School of Engineering. The video about Bio-SODA starts at min 4:50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jys71tJFh4w&feature=youtu.be

18.12.17

ZHAW is world record holder in speaker recognition

As part of their bachelor thesis in computer science Yanick Lukic and Carlo Vogt have developed a software that can recognize and assign voices in audio files. Now the two were guests at a specialist congress in Japan to present their work to an…

24.10.17

5th Swiss Conference on Data Science

The 5th Swiss Conference on Data Science will be held on the June 7, 2018, at Kursaal Bern, Switzerland.

03.10.17

Paper "ZNS - Efficient Query Processing with ZurichNoSQL" accepted

The paper „ZNS - Efficient Query Processing with ZurichNoSQL” by Kurt Stockinger, Richard Bödi, Jonas Heitz and Thomas Weinmann has been accepted in Data and Knowledge Engineering, a top-ranked, tier-1 international journal on database and…

03.04.17

Ca'Foscari scholarship

In conjunction with the Ca'Foscari University of Venice, we are going to offer a Ph.D. scholarship in Machine Learning in 2017

27.03.17

Two new CTI-founded R&D projects

The Information Engineering group at InIT is happy to announce two new CTI-funded R&D projects in the area of deep learning: Ada will focus on automated machine learning, while QualitAI will innovate in the area of deep learning on small data sets…

11.11.16

Bio-SODA Project Accepted by SNF

The project "Bio-SODA: Enabling Complex, Semantic Queries to Bioinformatics Databases through Intuitive Searching over Data" was accepted by SNF as part of the NFP75 Big Data call. Bio-SODA is a research collaboration between ZHAW School of…

31.03.16

Summer Internship in Berkeley

Jonas Heitz, who is currently doing his Bachelor’s thesis on query processing of NoSQL databases with Kurt Stockinger and Richard Bödi, was accepted for an internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This lab is located right across San…

06.03.16

CTI-Funding for SAVE-Project Granted

False alarms are a major cost driver for owners of alarm systems. To remedy this problem, we develop a novel alarm verification service by leveraging the power of an alarm data warehouse. By analyzing live streams of alarms, comparing them with…

08.10.15

Beispiel Grundlage EN

25.09.15

Interview with MIT's Michael Brodie from SDS|2015

ZHAW Impact magazine has a fantastic interview with MIT's data-intensive analyiss thought leader Michael Brodie in its 03/2015 issue.

31.07.15

Joint Talk with European Central Bank on “Large-Scale Data-Driven Financial Risk Assessment“ at DW2015

The recent financial crisis revealed the unstable nature of the financial system. The lack of a global standard for financial contract modeling makes comparison of risk exposures between banks almost impossible. Simulation of the cash flows of…

17.07.15

Our journal “Big Data Analytics in a Connected World” (Kurt Stockinger, Frank van Lingen, Marco Valente) was cited by Cisco’s Technology Radar

The Cisco Technology Radar on “Evolution of Data Management and Data Fabric” describes the technological challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing, which is often considered the forth industrial revolution. The report stresses the…