by Martin Vetterli, with Mirko Bischofberger, Henri Dubois-Ferrière and Paolo Prandoni

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

Nov 4, 2018

Algorithmic Longitude

Where we learn that algorithms and computational recipes exist already since Ancient Greece, but that the necessary…

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Oct 1, 2018

Fail again, fail better

What a frozen screen on your computer and a rocket explosion can teach us about software errors

Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 18, 2018

Let the music play

A last column in which we learn that each tune has its own fingerprint, and how services like Shazam use it to rapidly…

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

Oct 1, 2018

What goes up, must slow down?

Where we learn that computers get faster, smaller and cheaper since the 1960s, while other domains slowed down

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

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

Dec 3, 2018

Electronic democracy

Where we learn that the old Swiss forms of direct democracy are probably still the safest voting methods, except if one…

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

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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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