Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at UZH and ZHdK, has published two new papers. In his essay Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’, published in the journal Photography and Culture, Roland Meyer examines how AI image generators are changing our… Read More »New publications on AI image generation and visual similarity
If you want to develop innovative AI solutions, you should focus not on the majority of users, but on disadvantaged groups. This is the thesis put forward by Oriane Pierrès, a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Society Initiative (UZH), in her article on Inside IT. Many technologies that are now… Read More »AI innovation begins with disadvantaged groups
Food production in agriculture requires a lot of energy and often has negative effects on the environment. Special sensors based on artificial intelligence (AI) inspired by the human brain could counteract this. Neuroinformatician and DSI Postdoc Chiara de Luca explains how this technology, known as neuromorphic computing, works and how… Read More »How intelligent sensors can improve farming
The Digital Society Initiative (UZH) is looking to fill a research assistant position (30–40%) starting in March 2026 for the DIZH-funded project “ZuReach: Zurich Urban Reachability & Accessibility Enhancement through Digital Technology”. The project investigates the accessibility of Zurich for people with limited mobility. It is being carried out in… Read More »Research Assistant wanted: ZuReach
On December 11, 2025, the Coordination Committee Education Program met at the ZHAW School of Engineering to discuss a forward-looking topic: physical AI and robotics in education. Dr. Jorge Peña Queralta from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at ZHAW provided representatives from UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK and PHZH with insights into… Read More »Physical AI and robotics in education
The ZHAW digital community presented the Digital Shaper Award 2025 at Nüü on 28 November. The Engagement Award went to Anne Catherine Gieshoff (ZHAW Applied Linguistics) for her commitment to the community, her research into extended realities and her contribution to cross-departmental collaboration. The Impact Award went to the team… Read More »ZHAW: Digital Shaper Award 2025
We all know it from school or university: some days you learn really well, other days nothing works. This is not only due to how you feel on the day, but also depends heavily on three psychological needs. DSI Professor and educational scientist Sascha Schneider explains what these needs are… Read More »How digital tools boost motivation to learn
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Generative AI promises the future. But how does it change our view of the past? Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and the Arts, describes an often overlooked dimension of generative AI in an article in the university magazine Zett: its relationship to history. AI systems such as… Read More »Synthetic archives
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