About SARIT
Switzerland is one of the leading countries in computer applications. Many of these applications are embedded in top products or services of Switzerland's key industries (e.g. banks,insurances, telecommunication, power systems, chemistry, watches, transportation, tourism etc.). In all such enterprises interdisciplinary research and development ranks high and is heavily based on information technology (IT). Proper IT research (= Computer Science), however, exists in Switzerland only in universities (including ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne) and in a few industry labs; around 100 professors and their assistants work today in well equipped Computer Science departments. The scientific network between these IT-research communities is supported by SARIT, the Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology.
News
- The SARIT Annual Report 2010 (PDF) is now online
SARIT Activities
- provides direct access to IT professors, IT departments and IT research units in industry,
- performs the Swiss Computer Science Conference (SCSC) or the Swiss IT Professors' Day (SARIT) alternatively each year,
- moderates a mailing list to keep its members informed about SARIT news and Swiss IT events
- links to the calendars of events (continuous education) of IT departments in universities,
- participates in the Website IT Switzerland (I-S) showing IT curricula in universities and universities of applied sciences FHS/HES,
- connects Swiss IT research groups with ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and its exchange program for researchers,
- nominates the Swiss delegates to IFIP, the International Federation of Information Processing Societies,
- operates a contact office at EPFL Lausanne to promote and administrate exchange programs, fellowships and other activities for IT researchers from and to Switzerland.