Data Sciences
Neural network can read tree heights from satellite images
Research
ETH Zurich
Using an artificial neural network, researchers at ETH Zurich have created the first high-resolution global vegetation height map for 2020 from satellite images. This map could provide key information for fighting climate change and species extinction, as well as for sustainable regional development planning.  
How to compete with robots
Research
EPFL
Swiss roboticists and economists from EPFL and University of Lausanne developed a method for estimating the probability of jobs being automated by future intelligent robots and suggesting career transitions with lower risks and minimal retraining effort.
Better control of development aid through AI
Research
ETH Zurich
A research team from ETH Zurich and LMU Munich is using artificial intelligence to analyse 3.2 million development aid projects worldwide. Their research reveals trends and funding gaps.  
“The West now realizes it has taken some things for granted”
Politics
EPFL
Yves Daccord, who served as the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2010 to 2020, has just joined EPFL’s EssentialTech Centre as a senior advisor. In this interview, he explains how he will draw on his knowledge and contacts to help the Centre set ambitious objectives as it enters its second decade.
Girl Power: Can we Break the Bias in Al and Beyond?
Research
EPFL
We all know the story. It gets rolled out every March when women and men around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. Human biases are well documented, from the implicit to the explicit and they have always existed but as algorithms and big data increasingly run our lives these biases become embedded in everything.
When it comes to forecasts, politics fails more often than science
Politics
ETH Zurich
Politicians and the media struggle with predictions. This is more a problem resulting from a poor understanding of uncertainties than from the reliability of models, argues Reto Knutti.
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