The growth and impact of New York City’s tech and information sector is immense – New York City has become a digital city. From tech start-ups to well-established tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, and major information companies such as Bloomberg L.P. and the New York Times Company – it seems that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Cornell Tech has even established a model for graduate education that fuses technology with business making creative thinking an important part of New York City’s entrepreneurial tech and information ecosystem.
Grabbing hold of the brass ring, ETH Zurich launched an ETH Studios program in New York that offers students the opportunity to work in innovative environments and corporate contexts to address the challenges of the digital era. The first ETH Studios focused on data science, information security, and privacy creating strong synergies between research groups and students at ETH Zurich, on one side, and universities and industry in New York on the other side.
In the past 2 years, 17 ETH Zurich students have spent time in the ETH Studio New York program working with big name companies to solve some of the greatest challenges in everything from machine learning to cybersecurity. Here are just a few of their stories…
