Data & Information

Our society has been permeated by digitalisation, social networks, artificial intelligence and other IT-based innovations. The consequences of these disruptions are fundamental in nature and closely linked to technological developments.    

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Data and Information comprises collecting data (digitalization and sensing), communicating data (wireless, networking), processing data (storing, organizing, computing), algorithms (data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics), visualization and human interaction.

It has fundamental and long-term influence on all areas of science. New models and methods will have a strong influence on research and teaching in all Departments including Architecture, Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Management and Social Sciences.

ETH Zurich is national and international leader in all technologies related to data & information due to long-term vision and investments. It focuses on both, research and teaching, and there has been an enormous growth in competences in recent year.

Data Science is one of the ETH Domain's Strategic Focus Areas. Over the course of 2021–2024, ETH Zurich wants to create more capacity in data science while strengthening the connection between the core subjects of computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering and information technology, and all other disciplines represented at ETH. Working together with Swiss and international partners, ETH Zurich will continue to engage in important collaborative research. ETH Zurich further invests in the interaction and the dialogue with society in this field.  

some numbers and facts about Zurich ecosystem (# start-up companies out of research results in the area of ICT; industrial ecosystem with Google, Microsoft, Disney)

Security and Privacy

Computer Vision and Graphics

Digital Society

Information Technology

Robotics and Automation

Machine Learning and AI

Digital Manufacturing