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Foundations of ICT for decision makers

C4DT is organizing the 7th edition of the “FICT for Decision Makers” course. The target audience is managers and executives, without any technical prerequisites. The audience will gain in-depth understanding of the digital ecosystem.

Magic-Wormhole: communicate a secret easily

The problem Here is a common scenario we have all run into: you need to communicate some piece of secret information, say a password, to another person. Perhaps it’s on-boarding a new colleague, or to allow access for a partner. But you don’t want to compromise this secret by transmitting it over an insecure channel, (…)

How to read your bank-account on a public blockchain?

One of the ways public blockchains are touted is that they can replace your bank account. The idea is that you don’t need a central system anymore, but can open any number of accounts, as needed. However, as there is no central place, it is sometimes difficult to know how much money you have left. (…)

Fun with microcontrollers

Today it’s something about actual hardware, not just software. For Christmas I took a long LED-strip and hooked it up to an Arduino One to create some animations. But not having WiFi was a bit of a shame, because this meant you couldn’t control it from a smartphone. So I dug around and found this: (…)

The Inaugural Chief Data Officer & Information Quality European Symposium

In 2022, the #MITCDOIQ will bring the globally renowned Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Symposium (CDOIQ) hosted at MIT to Europe for the first time, in cooperation with the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (University of Lausanne – UNIL) and the Swiss Data Science Center (ETH Zurich & EPFL). The CDOIQ Symposium has established itself as one of the most important data events to exchange innovative ideas, best practices and to promote the adoption of the CDO role.

AI & Ethics test

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From Zürich to Dubai: Urban Digital Mobility

For the Travel & Connectivity Week at Expo 2020, the Swiss Pavilion is going to look at the mobility sector from the eyes of digitalisation. Matthias Finger, C4DT affiliated Professor, will be moderating the event.

AI & Ethics Workshop (by invitation only)

This C4DT partner workshop will take place online and is by invitation only.
For all C4DT partners: Please send us an email if you are interested in participating. This workshop is limited to 20 participants. We still have few “screens” open.

AI & Ethics Week

Artificial Intelligence holds great promise for the economy and society. It has also led to the explosion of new ethical challenges, such as biased decision making, filter bubbles, data protection, face recognition, deep fakes and cyber security.
During this week we aim to create awareness of the ethical and privacy dilemmas with AI, explored from 4 different angles – business impact, cultural, technological and regulatory.
For more information, please click below

Auditable Sharing and Management of Sensitive Data Across Jurisdictions

This work aims at creating a Proof of Concept of storing and managing data on a blockchain. This work answers the following two use-cases: (i) compliant storage, transfer and access management of (personal) sensitive data and (ii) compliant cross-border or cross-jurisdiction data sharing.

DEDIS brings to the table a permissioned blockchain and distributed ledger using a fast catch up mechanism that allows for very fast processing of the requests, while staying secure. It also includes a novel approach to encryption and decryption, where no central point of failure can let the documents be published to outsiders (Calypso). Swiss Re brings to the table interesting use cases which will require DEDIS to extend Calypso to implement data location policies.

Analysis of encryption techniques in ACARS communications

In this collaboration (structured in two projects) we develop an automated tool to flag messages sent by planes which are suspicious of using weak encryption mechanisms. We mainly focus on detecting the use of classical ciphers like substitution and transposition ciphers. The tool flags messages and identifies the family of ciphers. We also aim to develop automated decryption techniques for the weakest ciphers.

PriBAD: Private Biometrics for Aid Distribution

In this project, we work on providing a privacy-preserving biometric solution for humanitarian aid distribution. The project seeks to understand the requirements of aid distribution in emergency situation and design a solution that enables the use of biometrics without endangering the beneficiaries that need access to aid.