Globale News & Events

Zurich, 22 February 2018 - Professor John Hennessy, President Emeritus of Stanford University and Co-founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars will give a keynote lecture on Silicon Valley Innovation.

Innovation under 35: Severin Hacker is a Swiss computer scientist and the cofounder and CTO of Duolingo, the largest language-learning platform in the world.

Recently, a series of unprecedented leaks by Edward Snowden had made it possible for the first time to get a glimpse into the actual capabilities and limitations of the techniques used by the NSA to eavesdrop to computers and other communication devices. In this talk, Prof. Shamir will survey some of the things they have learned, and discuss possible countermeasures against these capabilities.

Lessons learnt in 20 years of bridging the gap between community development, applied research and investment

On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 ETH Global will host a lecture by Prof. Alex Sandy Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on "Social Physics". The lecture shall be opened by Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich.

On 14 January 2015 ETH Global will host a lecture by Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. He will lecture on "World University Rankings: From a Student Consumer Tool to a Powerful Geopolitical Indicator of the Knowledge Economy".