3/18/2026 at 7:00:35 AM
One day some cool new IT tech will come out of Switzerland without it being an ETH Zürich thing. Not saying that that's a bad thing but it's almost comical how one can read such headlines, think "that's probably coming out of ETHZ" and be correct most times. I guess a lot of american IT comes out of MIT, Switzerland is way smaller so it makes sense that there's an even larger bias towards one institute.Wonder how wide SCION will spread, so far it sounds like it's being used by the Swiss Financial Sector (ugh, even more stereotypical now).
by 4ggr0
3/18/2026 at 7:13:29 AM
There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!by alopha
3/18/2026 at 7:14:59 AM
Scala for one.by ivell
3/18/2026 at 7:43:39 AM
It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.by alex_suzuki
3/18/2026 at 8:28:05 AM
Eh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.by ahartmetz
3/18/2026 at 10:39:45 AM
Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.by nwellnhof
3/18/2026 at 11:04:17 PM
Right, I was like... were there one or two in München?, and I took the one I last heard of (Umbra DB / CedarDB, on HN). And I forgot about Aachen.by ahartmetz
3/18/2026 at 10:42:39 AM
Wondering what specific field of CS you're referring to, I'm seeing a much wider spread (and Saarbrücken does not even ring a bell). I was attending LMU and I have not kept up with the database stuff the last years from there but I feel like they published a lot of stuff.by wink
3/18/2026 at 11:13:13 PM
I find engineering-type stuff (kernels and hypervisors, programming languages, databases, concurrency, computer graphics, even proof assistants, deep learning now obviously, ...) most important since my impression of many German CS professors is that they would prefer to be mathematicians. There's a ton of interesting theory to be found in sufficiently advanced engineering, but you don't get any of that if you refuse to touch it. IMO, too little engineering is the main disease of German computer science.by ahartmetz