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Silver medal for PBL’s autonomous racing team ForzaETH at CES in Las Vegas
Members and undergraduate students of the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) secured a prestigious second place in the Indy autonomous race simulation at the tech event CES in Las Vegas. ETH’s team was only surpassed by the experienced PoliMove team from Politecnico di Milano. An exceptional and very promising achievement for the future. Congratulations!
The Robot-dog EFCL-PBL project gets advertised on Swiss TV (RSI)
The project Quadrupedal Robot for Assisting Visually Impaired People, led by Dr. Michele Magno and developed by students and the PBL research assistant Davide Plozza is getting nationwide advertisement. The project has been partially supported by the ETH+ project Future Learning Initiative, and the ETH Future Computing Laboratory (EFLC).
Improved ski jumping performance thanks to multi-sensor feedback
A team of students from the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) and the Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET is working on a cutting-edge project to improve the performance and training of ski jumpers. The cross-federation effort involves the development and testing of a multi-sensor feedback system that can measure and analyse various aspects of a ski jump, such as the centre of gravity during the inrun, the trajectory and the edge angle.
PBL team won Best Paper Award at ACM ENSYSS 2023 for Innovative IoT Research
Silvano Cortesi, Marco Giordano, and Michele Magno from the D-ITET Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) received the Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSYSS) in conjunction with ACM Sensys 2023. Their outstanding paper was entitled "Energy-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Self-Sustainability in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices". Congratulations!
Best Pitch Award for Kanika Dheman from the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Kanika Dheman, postdoctoral researcher at PBL, claimed the coveted Best Pitch award at IEEE Sensors 2023 in Vienna. Her visionary startup idea "PI Health: Pervasive Intelligence for Organ Failure Detection with Embedded AI in Wearables," stood out among 10 finalists during the conference. Congratulations!
New paper on Nature Communications: Neuromorphic dendritic architecture with RRAM for efficient temporal processing with delays
An article in Nature Communications published by the Institute of Neuroinformatic, UZH/ETH Zurich (Filippo Moro, Tristan Torchet, Yiğit Demirağ, Giacomo Indiveri and Melika Payvand) and CEA-LETI in France features DenRAM, the first hardware realization of spiking neural network with dendritic architecture. It utilizes memristive devices to implement both delay and weight parameters, enhancing low-power signal processing with reduced memory use.
Kaveh Razavi receives Jochen Lietke Young Researcher Award
Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the Computer Security Group, has received the Jochen Lietke Young Researcher Award at EuroSys. This award was created in 2014 by ACM EuroSys to reward junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research, broadly construed.
AI as a friend - does a chatbot relationship work? («Einstein», SRF)
In the science programme "Einstein", Benjamin Grewe, Professor of Neuroinformatics and Neural Systems at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), talks about how AI could learn even more about its environment and thus increasingly become a learning algorithm.