mission statement

The distributed computing group is headed by Roger Wattenhofer. For a two-page overview of our research group, see this fact sheet.

news

• Raphael Eidenbenz passes PhD exam. Congratulations!
• Former member Thomas Moscibroda is now a chair professor at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University. Congratulations!
• Johannes Schneider passes PhD exam. Congratulations!
• Our Planipes paper wins the best paper award at mHealthSys 2011.
• Former member Fabian Kuhn is getting a full professor position at the University of Freiburg. Congratulations!
• We have new members: Philipp Brandes, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, and Jara Uitto. Welcome!
• Our jukefox project is featured on tech blog lifehacker.
• In science plagiarism is often subtle, but here is a blatant example: a recent submission vs. our original publication.
• Wuala is in the news.
• According to web statistics company Alexa, our project BitThief is a search keyword that brings lots of web surfers to the ETH Zurich web page. Indeed, the keyword "bitthief" is currently ranked fourth, after "eth", "eth zurich", "eth zürich", and before "ethz".
• StreamForge wins Venture Kick Business Competition.
• The book Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks by Dorothea Wagner and Roger Wattenhofer is available.

conferences

• ICDCN 2012: 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Hong Kong, China, January 2012.
• SWAT 2012: 13th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, Helsinki, Finland, July 2012.
• ICALP 2012: 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Warwick, UK, July 2012.
• PODC 2012: 31st Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Madeira, Portugal, July 2012.
• Some more conferences we care about: in distributed computing, in networking and systems, in theory, or simply all (all data from conference search tool).