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The introductory and farewell lectures (EAV) are one of ETH Zurich’s most time-honoured events and have been recorded since at least 1967. This task is now carried out by the Educational Multimedia Production (EMP) group at ITS EduIT, which is itself committed to technical progress and was a pioneer of automated camera tracking as early as ten years ago, when the ETH spin-off «Seervision» – which has since been absorbed into Q-SYS – undertook its first trials in ETH lecture theatres. Nevertheless, manual camera operation has remained the dominant method to this day.

erstellt am 03.11.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

In what was then still known as the 2006/2007 winter semester, ETH Zurich launched its first portal entirely dedicated to academic video content: The Podcast Portal brought together recordings of lectures, events and other academic formats in one place; due to the still-limited bandwidth at the time, these were primarily designed to be downloaded onto users’ own computers or compatible playback devices.

erstellt am 03.11.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

When staff leave ETH, their data is sometimes left behind. But not forever: inactive polybox accounts are deleted on a regular basis. This may also affect shared files.

erstellt am 08.10.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

Three IT topics, three photo shoots, and plenty of people behind the scenes: We show how the images for inside|out No. 38 were created.

erstellt am 29.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) are jointly creating new capacity for high-performance computing (HPC). A new HPC data centre is being built at the PSI site in Villigen, designed to meet the growing demands of ETH research for computing power in HPC and artificial intelligence in the long term.

erstellt am 28.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

More and more IoT devices are finding their way into our everyday working lives. To ensure that everything runs smoothly, securely and is well managed, the new ZO Network IoT specialist unit (Central Bodies) has been set up. In this article, you’ll find out what its responsibilities are and why this is important.

erstellt am 25.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

Whether as a web app, in Outlook or on your smartphone – find out where to find the tool, which features make your day-to-day life easier and how you can better structure your daily task planning.

erstellt am 24.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

Shared mailboxes should be set up as separate accounts in Microsoft Outlook and run without cache mode. This prevents synchronisation issues and maintains stable performance. Cache mode should only be enabled for your personal mailbox.

erstellt am 24.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

Whether on the Kanban board, in the integrated calendar or in clear diagrams – find out how to access Microsoft Planner, organise project work in a structured way and use it to support team collaboration.

erstellt am 23.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,

A warm welcome to ETH Zurich! And don’t worry: even experienced computer scientists have used the wrong password at some point.

New campus, new people, new logins: to ensure your start to your studies isn’t derailed by a password, the Wi-Fi or a printer that’s playing up, we’ve put together the most important IT steps for you.

erstellt am 11.09.2026 von Sabine Hoffmann,