Three ETH Zurich researchers have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects will each receive approximately 2 million Swiss francs in funding. Prof. Capkun, the director of the ZISC center, is one of the recipients of this prestigious research grant. Cyber-physical systems like autonomous cars and drones use in order
We are very excited to announce that Swiss Post has signed a research partnership agreement with the ZISC center! Data protection, security and reliability are essential for Swiss Post’s digital future. From voting envelopes to e-voting, from medical records to eHealth, from piles of mail on the kitchen table to E-Post Office. To bring the
Prof. Adrian Perrig has been named a Fellow of ACM. ZISC congratulates Prof. Perrig on this great achievement! Further information about the 2016 ACM Fellows is available at http://awards.acm.org/. From a related press release (December 8, 2016): ACM, the world’s leading computing society, has named 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions
Data protection and security are of utmost importance to SIX as the main infrastructure provider for the Swiss financial center. To be even nearer to the beating heart of science, a twelve-year research cooperation agreement with Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) at the ETH was sealed yesterday, making SIX an active cooperation partner
This week Arthur Gervais, a PhD student at ETH Zurich and ZISC center, presented a new research paper titled “On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains” at the ACM CCS 2016 conference in Vienna. A technology website CoinDesk interviewed Arthur Gervais about his research results: “A small tweak to bitcoin could have
Each year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) seeks services, products, and business innovations that use satellite navigation in everyday life. In the 2016 edition, prizes are awarded by some of the most relevant institutional GNSS stakeholders, such as the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and
Prof. Capkun gave a talk on Secure Proximity Detection at the TTI/Vanguard Cybersecurity 2016 conference in September. Here’s a video of the presentation. A related video shows a technical demonstration of the secure proximity detection technology in action. For more information on new secure proximity detection technologies, see also the 3DB Technologies website.
Center of Computer Science Education (ABZ) of ETH Zurich was founded with the goal to introduce computer science as a subject into school education. The main activities of ABZ are the following: Developing textbooks and online platforms for teaching CS on all levels of schools and testing them in school Teacher training Teaching CS as
ZISC researchers receive the Theory of Cryptography Conference Test-of-Time Award 2016 for the paper: U. Maurer, R. Renner and C. Holenstein, Indifferentiability, impossibility results on reductions, and applications to the random oracle, published at TCC 2004 We congratulate the authors for research results that have proven to have long-term impact in the security and cryptography
The RSA Conference Award for Mathematics recognizes innovation and ongoing contribution to the field of cryptography. The judging committee seeks to acknowledge those nominees who are pioneers in their field, and whose work has applied lasting value. Nominees are affiliated with universities or research labs. We are very proud to announce that this year the