A Brief Look Back on IfI s History and Achievements

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1 Department of Informatics A Brief Look Back on IfI s History and Achievements Martin Glinz Department Head

2 Letʼs travel back in time

3 Letʼs travel back in time

4 1958 Where it all began Hans Künzi is appointed professor of Operations Research und Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in the Faculty of Law and Economics

5 Four years later The first computer at UZH: An IBM 1620 Storage capacity: 20ʼ000 numbers Addition cycle time: 600 μs 4

6 The predecessor to IfI Institut für Operations Research und elektronische Datenverarbeitung 5

7 1967 And a new computer Institut für Operations Research und elektronische Datenverarbeitung The IBM 360/40 Storage capacity: 256 Kbyte main memory 29 Mbyte disk space Addition cycle time: 10 μs 6

8 A department is born Foundation of the Institut für Elektronische Datenverarbeitung 7

9 A new name for an emerging discipline The department is renamed to Institut für Informatik 8

10 Pioneers elsewhere ETH Zurich 1950ies Eduard Stiefel, Heinz Rutishauser, Ambros Speiser Zuse Z4, ERMETH 1960ies Carl-August Zehnder, Niklaus Wirth 1968 Fachgruppe für Computerwissenschaften 1974 Institut für Informatik 1981 Diploma program in Informatics 9

11 The first decade: Informatics is established Research thrives Informatics is taught as a minor subject... but there is no academic program in Informatics The same happened at ETH and other Swiss universities Kurt Bauknecht makes IfI move forward (at a department excursion) 10

12 Eventually: A Teaching milestone 1980 Foundation of an academic program in informatics: Wirtschaftsinformatik (as a part of the program in Economics and Business Administration 11

13 More teaching milestones 1980 Foundation of an academic program in informatics: Wirtschaftsinformatik (as a part of the program in Economics and BA 1995 A program of its own: Informatics with concentration in information systems 2004 BSc and MSc in Informatics 12

14 The effect of teaching: We are proud of our alumni in academia > 20 professors and in industry Technical Experts Senior managers Entrepreneurs Distinguished engineers 13

15 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors

16 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht 14

17 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty 14

18 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger 14

19 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger Lutz Richter 14

20 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger Lutz Richter Peter Stucki 14

21 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer 14

22 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer 14

23 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich 14

24 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich 14

25 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

26 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

27 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

28 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

29 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

30 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Renato Pajarola Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

31 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Renato Pajarola Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall Martin Volk* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

32 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Renato Pajarola Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Böhlen Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall Martin Volk* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI 14

33 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Renato Pajarola Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Böhlen Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall Martin Volk* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI Lorenz Hilty 14

34 IfI grows: Timeline of tenured Professors Kurt Bauknecht Gerhard Schwabe Rudolf Marty Martin Glinz Gustav Pomberger Helmut Schauer Elaine Huang Lutz Richter Burkhard Stiller Peter Stucki Renato Pajarola Rolf Pfeifer Klaus Dittrich Michael Böhlen Michael Hess* Abraham Bernstein Harald Gall Martin Volk* *Institute of Computational Linguistics; affiliated with IfI Lorenz Hilty 14

35 At the forefront of innovation Events worth remembering 15

36 On the Web since 1993 The first Web server at UZH Operated by the Computing Center Then a part of IfI 16

37 IfIʼs first official homepage in

38 A few months later, research groups follow 18

39 1985: A quantum leap in teaching support IfI buys dozens of Macs 19

40 1985: A quantum leap in teaching support IfI buys dozens of Macs 19

41 Service to the community Kurt Bauknecht was president of IFIP Klaus Dittrich was president of SI IfI members are serving on the executive boards of societies and special interest groups in major technical committees and steering committees in our field 20

42 Some Research Highlights 21

43 ET++ 3rd OOPSLA 1988 Erich Gamma Rudolf Marty André Weinand The catalsyst for design patterns The Grandmother of all frameworks 22

44 3D Graphics and Reconstruction Peter Stucki and collaborators 23

45 Object-oriented Databases 24

46 Embodied AI 25

47 Mining knowledge from large data sets Communications of the ACM 52(8),

48 Querying very large data sets on an iphone 9 GB raw data ~250 million triples Real-time querying 8 GB iphone Cathrin Weiss Abraham Bernstein Sandro Bocuzzo 27

49 Innovative Collaboration: Software & Finance 28

50 IfI today: People 10 Tenured professors 5 Adjunct professors ~30 Part-time lecturers 17 Senior research associates / Postdocs 76 Assistants / PhD students 12 Technical and administrative staff 29

51 IfI today: Funding We gratefully acknowledge the continued funding support by UZH But we also maintain a significant amount of self funding: > 20 M CHF over the past six years > 75 % of third party funding granted on competitive proposals 30

52 IfI today: Research Top tier publications Best paper awards and dissertation awards Key roles in major international conferences On editorial boards / editor-in-chief of top tier international journals Exciting things are happening at IfI! 31

53 The Road Ahead Probably not a straight road A Brief Look Back on IfIʼs History and Achievements" 32

54 The Road Ahead Increase the number of assistant professors subject to approval A Brief Look Back on IfIʼs History and Achievements" 32

55 The Road Ahead Increase the number of assistant professors Further develop research excellence Many decision points ahead A Brief Look Back on IfIʼs History and Achievements" 32

56 The Road Ahead Increase the number of assistant professors Further develop research excellence Increase number of graduates on all levels Hopefully a not too bumpy road... A Brief Look Back on IfIʼs History and Achievements" 32

57 The Road Ahead Increase the number of assistant professors Further develop research excellence Increase number of graduates on all levels Advance IfI and sustain it as a player in the league of leading informatics departments And one that leads to the top. A Brief Look Back on IfIʼs History and Achievements" 32