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Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology have experienced an enormous boom recently. More and more online providers are accepting bitcoins as a payment method, and new blockchain-based applications are continually appearing. Nonetheless, there are still several riddles and myths about this new technology.
It’s time for an explanation: The blockchain is a distributed database that stores your information in immutable data records.
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erstellt am 09.09.2017 von Benno Luthiger

The new application «Provis», which will be used to manage the building projects of the Real Estate department, was launched on 22 August. The functions of this application will support users with the development and financial management of building projects as well as with controlling activities.

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erstellt am 31.08.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

The conference Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the biggest annual forum for bioinformatics and IT related to life sciences. Every second year the conference is held in Europe and combined with European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). This year ISMB/ECCB location was Prague. Over 2000 participants flocked the Prague Conference Centre near the Vysehrad castle between the 21-25 of July. Weiterlesen

erstellt am 24.08.2017 von Michal Okoniewski

Multimedia Services is supporting the ETH-Bibliothek with the implementation of its video strategy and helping it to sharpen its profile in social media.

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erstellt am 07.08.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

IT news at ETH Zurich – «Find out what’s going on in terms of IT at ETH Zurich»: the 13th inside|out newsletter is online

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erstellt am 19.07.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

Informatiktage 2017 was a complete success. Around 50 IT companies and organisations within the Zurich region opened their doors to the general public for two days.

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erstellt am 17.07.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

As reported by the media Switzerland obtained the 3rd rank in the Top500 (https://www.top500.org/lists/2017/06/) list of the fastest computers published at this years ISC High Performance conference. The supercomputer Piz Daint at CSCS (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico) is maintained by our colleagues in Lugano, who also brought in their experiences to co-design and improve the system. Weiterlesen

erstellt am 06.07.2017 von Christian Bolliger

ITS MMS PD is currently evaluating a solution for the automatic recording of lectures where the board plays a central role.

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erstellt am 14.06.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

Informatiktage 2017, an annual event where tech companies and IT departments in Zurich open their doors to the public, will take place on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June, 2017. We look forward to your visit!

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erstellt am 08.06.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann

On 3 April, 2017, the Hosting group of Basic Services (Basisdienste, ITS BD) decommissioned the last instance of the Silva Web Content Management System. Weiterlesen

erstellt am 08.06.2017 von Sabine Hoffmann