{"id":3356,"date":"2011-11-01T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/id\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:05:32","slug":"it-the-key-to-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/2011\/11\/01\/it-the-key-to-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"IT &#8211; The key to progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.ethz.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">IT Services<\/a> is the central information and communications technology provider of ETH Zurich offering a wide range of services and applications to all ETH Zurich members. <!--more-->The ITS collaborates closely with the decentralized department and institute IT organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing works without computer science. It shapes our lives and is an essential engine of scientific discovery. What is computer science? How was it discovered and why has it become a key science? What preoccupies computer scientists nowadays? Computer science pioneers and young scientists guide you through the world of computer science.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethz.ch\/news\/treffpunkt\/veranstaltungen\/programm\/06_11_11\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ethz.ch\/news\/treffpunkt\/veranstaltungen\/programm\/06_11_11<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Multimedia Portal<\/h3>\n<p>We support the activities of Treffpunkt Science City and the department of computer science. ITS-MMS records and publishes the lectures of Carl August Zehnder, Emeritus Professor of computer science and Friedemann Mattern, Professor of computer science at ETH Zurich. Published lectures can be found in the Multimedia Portal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multimedia.ethz.ch\/campus\/science_city_talk\">http:\/\/www.multimedia.ethz.ch\/campus\/science_city_talk<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Short Lectures<\/h3>\n<h4>Computers in the future &#8211; invisible and everywhere<\/h4>\n<p>Why tiny computers will soon be found in our daily objects, how increased computerization affects our lives and the opportunities and risks this development entails.<br \/>\nFriedemann Mattern, Professor of computer science, ETH Zurich.<\/p>\n<h4>Silicon Valley on the Limmat<\/h4>\n<p>How ETH Zurich in the past became a world center for a new field of study, computer science, why it subsequently missed the boat and how ETH caught up to newly position itself and help Zurich become an important international center for computer science. Carl August Zehnder, Emeritus Professor of computer science, ETH Zurich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Series: \u00abGreat inventions and discoveries\u00bb<br \/>\nSunday, November 6 2011 from 11 am to 4 pm ETH Zentrum, Building CAB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}