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The digital wallet is coming

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"Who invented it?" is a popular Swiss saying. In the case of the eID, the question must be: Who threw it away? The EU is implementing a new eID…
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Using data mining to track critical dietary patterns and lifestyle diseases

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Many chronic diseases are diet-related. A team at BFH Wirtschaft is pursuing a novel approach with multidisciplinary research: the scientists,…
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Public Security Test of the Covid Certificate: BFH assists with security

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The first Covid certificates have been issued in the cantons since 7 June 2021. At the end of June, the system is to be introduced throughout…
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Digital neurosis: How our attention is attacked

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While I was trying to write a post on artificial intelligence, I was briefly distracted by an article on anxiety disorders. What people with…
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When Mehmet and Peter are not the same – bias based on the origin of names in word vectors

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Pre-trained language models such as word vectors can contain social stereotypes, which can lead to software making discriminatory decisions.…
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Allocating Vaccination Appointments: Why we should (and could) do better than digital Hunger Games

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It is often said that the measure of society is how it treats its weakest members. We know that "first come first serve" or "Es hät solang es…
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Health care: Digital and individualised in the future

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Health care close to home has been a political goal for a long time. It is time to put the patient at the centre of the geography of care rather…
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Tools for digital building

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BIM will become mandatory in 2021, at least in government real estate projects. But where do companies start to successfully integrate the digital…
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How an app evaluates the climate data of different land areas

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At the Climate Hackathon, researchers and developers worked on solutions for reducing and assessing carbon footprints by remotely classifying…
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