All stories published by Digital Stories on November 23, 2018

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

A brief story of innovation

Where we discover an insightful link between the Swiss watchmaking tradition and the country’s leading role in…

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Compressing the blue sky

Where we learn the JPEG digital photo format

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Facebook addiction

Where we learn how Facebook makes us addict, like the TV once did, and what this means for advertising and politics

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Breathing mathematics

Where we learn how one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century defined a network of researchers, up to…

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Mining 2.0

Where we learn that in the early 19th century aluminum was worth twice as much as gold, and how that is related to today’s rising Bitcoin…

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Shadow and light

Where we discover how Chinese shadow plays and an obscure mathematical result led to enlightenment in medical imaging.

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Digital prejudices

Where we learn that computers can be as good as humans at recognising and discriminating things, but with the same fatal…

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

Processing the future

Where we see that anticipating the future can lead to quicker computers, and how this is related to ancient China and…

November 10, 2018

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Digital Stories

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

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