The average gamer is 30 years old. It is time to tackle digital games in academia and the public sphere, says Hiloko Kato, Chair of DSI Community Gaming. Author: Hiloko Kato Digital games have arrived in our everyday lives. What was long regarded as the suspect occupation of marginalised young… Read More »Games between everyday life and science
How can artificial intelligence help improve medical diagnoses? This was one of the topics of the joint symposium of UZH and Kyoto University, which ended successfully yesterday. Author: Priska Feichter What started as a collaboration between two institutes has become a university-wide strategic partnership: UZH’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine and… Read More »Kyoto University and UZH Strengthen Their Strategic Partnership
Women and the political left are more sceptical about AI. They criticise the lack of emotionality. Nevertheless, the positive basic attitude towards artificial intelligence is surprising. Artificial intelligences can be used in many areas of life. For example, an AI can make a medical diagnosis, recognise false messages on social… Read More »Where AI is accepted in Switzerland
DSI Infrastucture & Lab Call: apply now. The Call is open to all DSI members and provides funding of up to CHF 100,000. The main: Applicants must be full DSI members Funding from CHF 20’000.- to 100’000.- for maximum of 2 years; co-financing mandatory Application deadline: April 23, 2023 Decision… Read More »Apply now: DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call
The National Research Programme “Big Data” (NRP 75) of the Swiss National Science Foundation investigated opportunities and challenges. The final report was presented at a media conference on 2 March 2023. The use of big data can improve our everyday lives: medical care, mobility and energy efficiency or the supply… Read More »Big data, big challenges: conclusion of NRP 75
The newly launched DSI Community Sustainability aims to promote both sustainable digitalisation and digital sustainability. Co-leader Dr Mario Angst gives a brief insight into the work of the community. Sustainability and digitalisation represent two important and far-reaching social and technological transformation processes in our society. The DSI Community Sustainability aims… Read More »Introducing the DSI Community Sustainability
DSI hosted a European hub for a conference held in Australia in mid-June. In the video, organizer and DSI postdoc Mario Angst talks about his experience with this new format and how it helps reduce researchers’ individual CO2 emissions.
We are looking for researchers (PhD’s) who are at the beginning of their academic career and are conducting interdisciplinary research on topics that are closely related to digitalisation and its impact on society. Possible research fields include digital health, digital ethics, religion and digitalisation, digital humanities, legal tech, etc. The… Read More »DSI Bridge Postdoc Call
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are jointly usable infrastructures or structural vessels that are intended to generate collaborative settings for research – naturally always with reference to the digital transformation. Synergies and new forms of cooperation are to be made possible from the bundling of existing competences and people. We are… Read More »DSI Infrastructure & Lab
DSI LECTURE SERIES 2022 Over the past three months, we have intensively studied the future of the world of work: We have learned, for example, that a healthy dose of humour never hurts in everyday working life. We now know what challenges food delivery workers on bicycles have to deal… Read More »The Future of Work