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4ggr0 3 days ago [-]
One day some cool new IT tech will come out of Switzerland without it being an ETH Zürich thing. Not saying that that's a bad thing but it's almost comical how one can read such headlines, think "that's probably coming out of ETHZ" and be correct most times. I guess a lot of american IT comes out of MIT, Switzerland is way smaller so it makes sense that there's an even larger bias towards one institute.
Wonder how wide SCION will spread, so far it sounds like it's being used by the Swiss Financial Sector (ugh, even more stereotypical now).
alopha 2 days ago [-]
There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
ivell 2 days ago [-]
Scala for one.
alex_suzuki 2 days ago [-]
It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.
ahartmetz 2 days ago [-]
Eh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.
nwellnhof 2 days ago [-]
Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.
ahartmetz 2 days ago [-]
Right, I was like... were there one or two in München?, and I took the one I last heard of (Umbra DB / CedarDB, on HN). And I forgot about Aachen.
wink 2 days ago [-]
Wondering what specific field of CS you're referring to, I'm seeing a much wider spread (and Saarbrücken does not even ring a bell). I was attending LMU and I have not kept up with the database stuff the last years from there but I feel like they published a lot of stuff.
ahartmetz 2 days ago [-]
I find engineering-type stuff (kernels and hypervisors, programming languages, databases, concurrency, computer graphics, even proof assistants, deep learning now obviously, ...) most important since my impression of many German CS professors is that they would prefer to be mathematicians. There's a ton of interesting theory to be found in sufficiently advanced engineering, but you don't get any of that if you refuse to touch it. IMO, too little engineering is the main disease of German computer science.
112233 3 days ago [-]
Nice to see BGP getting called out. Meanwhile, the fact neither quagga nor frr nor bird SCION patches are available by googling 5 seconds — and they want "company like cisco"?
Yeah seems likethe business interests have overridden the adpotion needs. Knowing the IETF process is molasses slow , they still have not made moves to close that gap.For open source at least a implementation RFC that interested parties could work with - none avaiable.
They want to sell a technically brillant protocol that is single vendor propriety/patent restricted.
Their bet should have been of open protocol and captalizing on fist mover advantage to drive their business side witha large partner like ericsson/cisco etc.
Of course theres also the soveriegnity angle knowing what went on with another swiss company CryptoAG.
Wonder how wide SCION will spread, so far it sounds like it's being used by the Swiss Financial Sector (ugh, even more stereotypical now).
They want to sell a technically brillant protocol that is single vendor propriety/patent restricted.
Their bet should have been of open protocol and captalizing on fist mover advantage to drive their business side witha large partner like ericsson/cisco etc.
Of course theres also the soveriegnity angle knowing what went on with another swiss company CryptoAG.
And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.