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Can machines acquire capabilities that remind us of (or even exceed) general-purpose intelligent reasoning in humans? This question will be explained by computer scientist Sanjeev Arora from Princeton University at today’s Paul Bernays Lecture in the ETH main building.

Analysing text reuse is a task that is of particular relevance to architectural history. The platform Graph automates this process by applying large-scale textual processing for detecting similar text passages to a large corpus of digitised books.

Have you recently sent a non-commercial consignment abroad and had it returned? If so, it’s very likely because of the new regulation.

Finally: after three years, the employees of ETH Zurich celebrated on Friday at the staff party on the Hönggerberg - and the staff commission (PeKo) was in the middle of it!

At its latest meeting, the ETH Zurich Executive Board turned its attention to the new CAS ETH in Climate Innovation and discussed elections to the Teaching Commission and to the ombuds office.

Should there be an energy shortage in Switzerland next winter, ETH Zurich will prioritise operations within its teaching and research infrastructure. A group of specialists at ETH has developed an action plan to ensure that core tasks are maintained at the University, even in the event of a crisis.

This series of workshops organised by the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich introduces you to varied aspects of research data management.

More than 4'500 guests travelled to the Hönggerberg on 26 August 2022, to celebrate the big ETH staff party. Now the party is over - what remains are the memories.

ETH Zurich and major bank UBS want to jointly promote an entrepreneurial mindset and boost interest in STEM subjects in schools. To this end, they are entering into a strategic partnership that is aimed to last at least ten years. Sabine Keller-Busse, President of UBS Switzerland, and ETH President Joël Mesot explain what drives the two institutions and what their plans are.

Every day, hundreds of ETH members commute between the Zentrum and Hönggerberg campuses by the electrically powered eLink shuttle bus. On 30 August 2022, ETH Zurich Tours present this shining example of sustainability to the public for the first time.