Top stories published by Digital Stories in September of 2018

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

Suzanne Vega and the Father of MP3

How a rock musician and an engineer became parents of the most disruptive music format MP3 in the internet — and this without ever meeting.

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

All Roads Lead to Google

What a drunken Roman soldier travelling the Empire’s roads can teach us about web search engines

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

Divide, rule and… conquer the web!

The basic difference between a linear cooking recipe and the compression of a digital image, and how this solves some of our most fundamental IT problems

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 24, 2018

“Is this you?”

Where we learn how computers and Facebook recognize our faces — and put a name on it.

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 24, 2018

From Alice in Wonderland to the wonders of Netflix and Spotify

Where we learn that the internet works in many ways similar to the journey of a letter in our postal system

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 24, 2018

Machines can play, but can they think?

What a simple game like Tic Tac Toe can reveal about how computers “think”, from simple algorithms to artificial intelligence and human creativity.

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 24, 2018

What you see and where you are

How flies, humans, vacuum cleaners and self-driving cars explore and map the environment — and how this led to a Nobel Prize

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 24, 2018

2017: An Odyssey into Voice Recognition

Machines that talk have been the staple of science fiction since the beginnings of the genre, but only today we are starting to actually be “understood” by our cell phones.

October 2018

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Digital and analog science stories written by Martin Vetterli in collaboration with Mirko Bischofberger, Henri Dubois-Ferrière and Paolo Prandoni

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