Suchergebnis: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2021

Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
Cyber Security Master
Ergänzung
Computational Science
Kernfächer
401-3632-00L	Computational Statistics	W	8 KP	3V + 1U	M. Mächler
Kurzbeschreibung	We discuss modern statistical methods for data analysis, including methods for data exploration, prediction and inference. We pay attention to algorithmic aspects, theoretical properties and practical considerations. The class is hands-on and methods are applied using the statistical programming language R.
Lernziel	The student obtains an overview of modern statistical methods for data analysis, including their algorithmic aspects and theoretical properties. The methods are applied using the statistical programming language R.
Inhalt	See the class website
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	At least one semester of (basic) probability and statistics. Programming experience is helpful but not required.

Wahlfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
252-0526-00L	Statistical Learning Theory	W	8 KP	3V + 2U + 2A	J. M. Buhmann, C. Cotrini Jimenez
Kurzbeschreibung	The course covers advanced methods of statistical learning: - Variational methods and optimization. - Deterministic annealing. - Clustering for diverse types of data. - Model validation by information theory.
Lernziel	The course surveys recent methods of statistical learning. The fundamentals of machine learning, as presented in the courses "Introduction to Machine Learning" and "Advanced Machine Learning", are expanded from the perspective of statistical learning.
Inhalt	- Variational methods and optimization. We consider optimization approaches for problems where the optimizer is a probability distribution. We will discuss concepts like maximum entropy, information bottleneck, and deterministic annealing. - Clustering. This is the problem of sorting data into groups without using training samples. We discuss alternative notions of "similarity" between data points and adequate optimization procedures. - Model selection and validation. This refers to the question of how complex the chosen model should be. In particular, we present an information theoretic approach for model validation. - Statistical physics models. We discuss approaches for approximately optimizing large systems, which originate in statistical physics (free energy minimization applied to spin glasses and other models). We also study sampling methods based on these models.
Skript	A draft of a script will be provided. Lecture slides will be made available.
Literatur	Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman: The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer, 2001. L. Devroye, L. Gyorfi, and G. Lugosi: A probabilistic theory of pattern recognition. Springer, New York, 1996
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Knowledge of machine learning (introduction to machine learning and/or advanced machine learning) Basic knowledge of statistics.
261-5120-00L	Machine Learning for Health Care Number of participants limited to 150.	W	5 KP	3P + 1A	V. Boeva, G. Rätsch, J. Vogt
Kurzbeschreibung	The course will review the most relevant methods and applications of Machine Learning in Biomedicine, discuss the main challenges they present and their current technical problems.
Lernziel	During the last years, we have observed a rapid growth in the field of Machine Learning (ML), mainly due to improvements in ML algorithms, the increase of data availability and a reduction in computing costs. This growth is having a profound impact in biomedical applications, where the great variety of tasks and data types enables us to get benefit of ML algorithms in many different ways. In this course we will review the most relevant methods and applications of ML in biomedicine, discuss the main challenges they present and their current technical solutions.
Inhalt	The course will consist of four topic clusters that will cover the most relevant applications of ML in Biomedicine: 1) Structured time series: Temporal time series of structured data often appear in biomedical datasets, presenting challenges as containing variables with different periodicities, being conditioned by static data, etc. 2) Medical notes: Vast amount of medical observations are stored in the form of free text, we will analyze stategies for extracting knowledge from them. 3) Medical images: Images are a fundamental piece of information in many medical disciplines. We will study how to train ML algorithms with them. 4) Genomics data: ML in genomics is still an emerging subfield, but given that genomics data are arguably the most extensive and complex datasets that can be found in biomedicine, it is expected that many relevant ML applications will arise in the near future. We will review and discuss current applications and challenges.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Data Structures & Algorithms, Introduction to Machine Learning, Statistics/Probability, Programming in Python, Unix Command Line Relation to Course 261-5100-00 Computational Biomedicine: This course is a continuation of the previous course with new topics related to medical data and machine learning. The format of Computational Biomedicine II will also be different. It is helpful but not essential to attend Computational Biomedicine before attending Computational Biomedicine II.
263-5300-00L	Guarantees for Machine Learning Number of participants limited to 30. Last cancellation/deregistration date for this graded semester performance: 17 March 2021! Please note that after that date no deregistration will be accepted and a "no show" will appear on your transcript.	W	7 KP	3G + 3A	F. Yang
Kurzbeschreibung	This course is aimed at advanced master and doctorate students who want to conduct independent research on theory for modern machine learning (ML). It teaches classical and recent methods in statistical learning theory commonly used to prove theoretical guarantees for ML algorithms. The knowledge is then applied in independent project work that focuses on understanding modern ML phenomena.
Lernziel	Learning objectives: - acquire enough mathematical background to understand a good fraction of theory papers published in the typical ML venues. For this purpose, students will learn common mathematical techniques from statistics and optimization in the first part of the course and apply this knowledge in the project work - critically examine recently published work in terms of relevance and determine impactful (novel) research problems. This will be an integral part of the project work and involves experimental as well as theoretical questions - find and outline an approach (some subproblem) to prove a conjectured theorem. This will be practiced in lectures / exercise and homeworks and potentially in the final project. - effectively communicate and present the problem motivation, new insights and results to a technical audience. This will be primarily learned via the final presentation and report as well as during peer-grading of peer talks.
Inhalt	This course touches upon foundational methods in statistical learning theory aimed at proving theoretical guarantees for machine learning algorithms, touching on the following topics - concentration bounds - uniform convergence and empirical process theory - high-dimensional statistics (e.g. sparsity) - regularization for non-parametric statistics (e.g. in RKHS, neural networks) - implicit regularization via gradient descent (e.g. margins, early stopping) - minimax lower bounds The project work focuses on current theoretical ML research that aims to understand modern phenomena in machine learning, including but not limited to - how overparameterization could help generalization ( RKHS, NN ) - how overparameterization could help optimization ( non-convex optimization, loss landscape ) - complexity measures and approximation theoretic properties of randomly initialized and trained NN - generalization of robust learning ( adversarial robustness, standard and robust error tradeoff, distribution shift)
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	It’s absolutely necessary for students to have a strong mathematical background (basic real analysis, probability theory, linear algebra) and good knowledge of core concepts in machine learning taught in courses such as “Introduction to Machine Learning”, “Regression”/ “Statistical Modelling”. In addition to these prerequisites, this class requires a high degree of mathematical maturity—including abstract thinking and the ability to understand and write proofs. Students have usually taken a subset of Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, Probabilistic AI, Neural Network Theory, Optimization for Data Science, Advanced ML, Statistical Learning Theory, Probability Theory (D-MATH)

Distributed Systems
Kernfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
227-0558-00L	Principles of Distributed Computing	W	7 KP	2V + 2U + 2A	R. Wattenhofer, M. Ghaffari
Kurzbeschreibung	We study the fundamental issues underlying the design of distributed systems: communication, coordination, fault-tolerance, locality, parallelism, self-organization, symmetry breaking, synchronization, uncertainty. We explore essential algorithmic ideas and lower bound techniques.
Lernziel	Distributed computing is essential in modern computing and communications systems. Examples are on the one hand large-scale networks such as the Internet, and on the other hand multiprocessors such as your new multi-core laptop. This course introduces the principles of distributed computing, emphasizing the fundamental issues underlying the design of distributed systems and networks: communication, coordination, fault-tolerance, locality, parallelism, self-organization, symmetry breaking, synchronization, uncertainty. We explore essential algorithmic ideas and lower bound techniques, basically the "pearls" of distributed computing. We will cover a fresh topic every week.
Inhalt	Distributed computing models and paradigms, e.g. message passing, shared memory, synchronous vs. asynchronous systems, time and message complexity, peer-to-peer systems, small-world networks, social networks, sorting networks, wireless communication, and self-organizing systems. Distributed algorithms, e.g. leader election, coloring, covering, packing, decomposition, spanning trees, mutual exclusion, store and collect, arrow, ivy, synchronizers, diameter, all-pairs-shortest-path, wake-up, and lower bounds
Skript	Available. Our course script is used at dozens of other universities around the world.
Literatur	Lecture Notes By Roger Wattenhofer. These lecture notes are taught at about a dozen different universities through the world. Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics Hagit Attiya, Jennifer Welch. McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-07-709352 6 Introduction to Algorithms Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest. The MIT Press, 1998, ISBN 0-262-53091-0 oder 0-262-03141-8 Disseminatin of Information in Communication Networks Juraj Hromkovic, Ralf Klasing, Andrzej Pelc, Peter Ruzicka, Walter Unger. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2005, ISBN 3-540-00846-2 Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes Frank Thomson Leighton. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1991, ISBN 1-55860-117-1 Distributed Computing: A Locality-Sensitive Approach David Peleg. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2000, ISBN 0-89871-464-8
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Course pre-requisites: Interest in algorithmic problems. (No particular course needed.)
263-3800-00L	Advanced Operating Systems	W	7 KP	2V + 2U + 2A	D. Cock, T. Roscoe
Kurzbeschreibung	This course is intended to give students a thorough understanding of design and implementation issues for modern operating systems, with a particular emphasis on the challenges of modern hardware features. We will cover key design issues in implementing an operating system, such as memory management, scheduling, protection, inter-process communication, device drivers, and file systems.
Lernziel	The goals of the course are, firstly, to give students: 1. A broader perspective on OS design than that provided by knowledge of Unix or Windows, building on the material in a standard undergraduate operating systems class 2. Practical experience in dealing directly with the concurrency, resource management, and abstraction problems confronting OS designers and implementers 3. A glimpse into future directions for the evolution of OS and computer hardware design
Inhalt	The course is based on practical implementation work, in C and assembly language, and requires solid knowledge of both. The work is mostly carried out in teams of 3-4, using real hardware, and is a mixture of team milestones and individual projects which fit together into a complete system at the end. Emphasis is also placed on a final report which details the complete finished artifact, evaluates its performance, and discusses the choices the team made while building it.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	The course is based around a milestone-oriented project, where students work in small groups to implement major components of a microkernel-based operating system. The final assessment will be a combination grades awarded for milestones during the course of the project, a final written report on the work, and a set of test cases run on the final code.
263-3855-00L	Cloud Computing Architecture	W	9 KP	3V + 2U + 3A	G. Alonso, A. Klimovic
Kurzbeschreibung	Cloud computing hosts a wide variety of online services that we use on a daily basis, including web search, social networks, and video streaming. This course will cover how datacenter hardware, systems software, and application frameworks are designed for the cloud.
Lernziel	After successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1) reason about performance, energy efficiency, and availability tradeoffs in the design of cloud system software, 2) describe how datacenter hardware is organized and explain why it is organized as such, 3) implement cloud applications as well as analyze and optimize their performance.
Inhalt	In this course, we study how datacenter hardware, systems software, and applications are designed at large scale for the cloud. The course covers topics including server design, cluster management, large-scale storage systems, serverless computing, data analytics frameworks, and performance analysis.
Skript	Lecture slides will be available on the course website.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Undergraduate courses in 1) computer architecture and 2) operating systems, distributed systems, and/or database systems are strongly recommended.

Wahlfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
252-0312-00L	Ubiquitous Computing	W	6 KP	2V + 3A	C. Holz
Kurzbeschreibung	Ubiquitous Computing means interacting with information and with each other anywhere, mediated through miniature technology everywhere. We will investigate the technical aspects of Ubicomp, particularly sensing, processing, and sense making: input (touch & gesture), activity, monitoring cardiovascular health and neurological conditions, context & location sensing, affective computing.
Lernziel	The course will combine high-level concepts with low-level technical methods needed to sense, detect, and understand them. High-level: – input modalities for interactive systems (touch, gesture) – "activities" and "events" (exercises and other mechanical activities such as movements and resulting vibrations) – health monitoring (basic cardiovascular physiology) – location (GPS, urban simulations, smart cities and development) – affective computing (emotions, mood, personality) Low-level: – sampling (Shannon Nyquist) and filtering (FIR, IIR), time and frequency domains (Fourier transforms) – cross-modal sensor systems, signal synchronization and correlation – event detection, classification, prediction using basic signal processing as well as learning-based methods – sensor types: optical, mechanical/acoustic, electromagnetic – signals modalities and processing of: application (modalities/methods) * touch detection (resistive sensing, capacitive sensing, diffuse illumination/DI, spectral reflections, frustrated total internal reflection/FTIR, fingerprint scanning, surface-acoustic waves) * gesture recognition (inertial sensing through accelerometers, gyroscopes) * activity detection and tracking (inertial, acoustic, vibrotactile for classification, counting, vibrometry) * occupation and use (electricity monitoring, water consumption, single-point sensing) * cardiovascular (electrocardioagraphy, photoplethysmography, pulse oximetry, ballistocardiography, blood pressure, pulse transit time, bio impedance) * affective computing (heart rate variability, R-R intervals, electrodermal activity, sympathetic tone, facial expressions) * neurological (fatigue, fatigability) * location (GPS, BLE, Wifi)
Inhalt	"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it" — Mark Weiser, 1991. This is the premise of Ubiquitous Computing, a vision that is slowly becoming reality as everything is a device and we can interact with information and with each other anywhere, mediated through miniature technology. Along with this change, interaction modalities have changed, too, from explicit input on keyboards and mice to implicit and passively observed input through sensors in the environment (e.g., speakers, cameras, temperature/occupancy detectors) and those we now wear on our bodies (e.g., health sensors, activity sensors, miniature computers we call smartwatches). In this course, we will look at the technical side of Ubicomp, particularly – sensing (incl. 'signals', sampling, data acquisition methods, controlled user studies, uncontrolled studies in-the-wild), – processing (incl. frequencies, feature extraction, detection), and – sense making: input sensing (touch & gesture), activity sensing (motion), monitoring cardiovascular health, affective state, neurological conditions (with basics on cardiovascular physiology + PPG, PulseOx, ECG, EDA, BCG, SCG, HRV, BioZ, IPG, PAT, PTT), context & location sensing (GPS/Wifi, motion). Lectures will be accompanied by practical sessions that focus on sensor modalities and signal processing. Here, we will work on existing data sets and devise methods to record our own data for processing and prediction purposes. A series of reading assignments, covering both well-established publications in Ubicomp as well as emerging results and methods, will bridge the fundamentals and topics taught in class to academic research and real-world problems. More information on the course site: https://teaching.siplab.org/ubiquitous_computing/2021/
Skript	Copies of slides will be made available. Lectures will be recorded and made available online. More information on the course site: https://teaching.siplab.org/ubiquitous_computing/2021/
Literatur	Will be provided in the lecture. To put you in the mood: Mark Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104
252-0817-00L	Distributed Systems Laboratory	W	10 KP	9P	G. Alonso, T. Hoefler, A. Klimovic, A. Singla, R. Wattenhofer, C. Zhang
Kurzbeschreibung	Entwicklung und / oder Evaluation eines umfangreicheren praktischen Systems mit Technologien aus dem Gebiet der verteilten Systeme. Das Projekt kann aus unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen (von Web-Services bis hin zu ubiquitären Systemen) stammen; typische Technologien umfassen drahtlose Ad-hoc-Netze oder Anwendungen auf Mobiltelefonen.
Lernziel	Erwerb praktischer Kenntnisse bei Entwicklung und / oder Evaluation eines umfangreicheren praktischen Systems mit Technologien aus dem Gebiet der verteilten Systeme.
Inhalt	Entwicklung und / oder Evaluation eines umfangreicheren praktischen Systems mit Technologien aus dem Gebiet der verteilten Systeme. Das Projekt kann aus unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen (von Web-Services bis hin zu ubiquitären Systemen) stammen; typische Technologien umfassen drahtlose Ad-hoc-Netze oder Anwendungen auf Mobiltelefonen. Zu diesem Praktikum existiert keine Vorlesung. Bei Interesse bitte einen der beteiligten Professoren oder einen Assistenten der Forschungsgruppen kontaktieren.
263-3710-00L	Machine Perception Number of participants limited to 200.	W	8 KP	3V + 2U + 2A	O. Hilliges, S. Tang
Kurzbeschreibung	Recent developments in neural networks (aka “deep learning”) have drastically advanced the performance of machine perception systems in a variety of areas including computer vision, robotics, and intelligent UIs. This course is a deep dive into deep learning algorithms and architectures with applications to a variety of perceptual tasks.
Lernziel	Students will learn about fundamental aspects of modern deep learning approaches for perception. Students will learn to implement, train and debug their own neural networks and gain a detailed understanding of cutting-edge research in learning-based computer vision, robotics and HCI. The final project assignment will involve training a complex neural network architecture and applying it on a real-world dataset of human activity. The core competency acquired through this course is a solid foundation in deep-learning algorithms to process and interpret human input into computing systems. In particular, students should be able to develop systems that deal with the problem of recognizing people in images, detecting and describing body parts, inferring their spatial configuration, performing action/gesture recognition from still images or image sequences, also considering multi-modal data, among others.
Inhalt	We will focus on teaching: how to set up the problem of machine perception, the learning algorithms, network architectures and advanced deep learning concepts in particular probabilistic deep learning models The course covers the following main areas: I) Foundations of deep-learning. II) Probabilistic deep-learning for generative modelling of data (latent variable models, generative adversarial networks and auto-regressive models). III) Deep learning in computer vision, human-computer interaction and robotics. Specific topics include: I) Deep learning basics: a) Neural Networks and training (i.e., backpropagation) b) Feedforward Networks c) Timeseries modelling (RNN, GRU, LSTM) d) Convolutional Neural Networks for classification II) Probabilistic Deep Learning: a) Latent variable models (VAEs) b) Generative adversarial networks (GANs) c) Autoregressive models (PixelCNN, PixelRNN, TCNs) III) Deep Learning techniques for machine perception: a) Fully Convolutional architectures for dense per-pixel tasks (i.e., instance segmentation) b) Pose estimation and other tasks involving human activity c) Deep reinforcement learning IV) Case studies from research in computer vision, HCI, robotics and signal processing
Literatur	Deep Learning Book by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	* In accordance with the ETH Covid-19 master plan the lecture will be fully virtual. Details on the course website. * This is an advanced grad-level course that requires a background in machine learning. Students are expected to have a solid mathematical foundation, in particular in linear algebra, multivariate calculus, and probability. The course will focus on state-of-the-art research in deep-learning and will not repeat basics of machine learning Please take note of the following conditions: 1) The number of participants is limited to 200 students (MSc and PhDs). 2) Students must have taken the exam in Machine Learning (252-0535-00) or have acquired equivalent knowledge 3) All practical exercises will require basic knowledge of Python and will use libraries such as Pytorch, scikit-learn and scikit-image. We will provide introductions to Pytorch and other libraries that are needed but will not provide introductions to basic programming or Python. The following courses are strongly recommended as prerequisite: * "Visual Computing" or "Computer Vision" The course will be assessed by a final written examination in English. No course materials or electronic devices can be used during the examination. Note that the examination will be based on the contents of the lectures, the associated reading materials and the exercises.

Information Systems
Kernfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
263-2925-00L	Program Analysis for System Security and Reliability	W	7 KP	2V + 1U + 3A	M. Vechev
Kurzbeschreibung	Security issues in modern systems (blockchains, datacenters, deep learning, etc.) result in billions of losses due to hacks and system downtime. This course introduces fundamental techniques (ranging from automated analysis, machine learning, synthesis, zero-knowledge and their combinations) that can be applied in practice so to build more secure and reliable modern systems.
Lernziel	* Understand the fundamental techniques used to create modern security and reliability analysis engines that are used worldwide. * Understand how symbolic techniques are combined with machine learning (e.g., deep learning, reinforcement learning) so to create new kinds of learning-based analyzers. * Understand how to quantify and fix security and reliability issues in modern deep learning models. * Understand open research questions from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Inhalt	Please see: https://www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/teaching/pass2021 for detailed course content.

Wahlfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
252-0312-00L	Ubiquitous Computing	W	6 KP	2V + 3A	C. Holz
Kurzbeschreibung	Ubiquitous Computing means interacting with information and with each other anywhere, mediated through miniature technology everywhere. We will investigate the technical aspects of Ubicomp, particularly sensing, processing, and sense making: input (touch & gesture), activity, monitoring cardiovascular health and neurological conditions, context & location sensing, affective computing.
Lernziel	The course will combine high-level concepts with low-level technical methods needed to sense, detect, and understand them. High-level: – input modalities for interactive systems (touch, gesture) – "activities" and "events" (exercises and other mechanical activities such as movements and resulting vibrations) – health monitoring (basic cardiovascular physiology) – location (GPS, urban simulations, smart cities and development) – affective computing (emotions, mood, personality) Low-level: – sampling (Shannon Nyquist) and filtering (FIR, IIR), time and frequency domains (Fourier transforms) – cross-modal sensor systems, signal synchronization and correlation – event detection, classification, prediction using basic signal processing as well as learning-based methods – sensor types: optical, mechanical/acoustic, electromagnetic – signals modalities and processing of: application (modalities/methods) * touch detection (resistive sensing, capacitive sensing, diffuse illumination/DI, spectral reflections, frustrated total internal reflection/FTIR, fingerprint scanning, surface-acoustic waves) * gesture recognition (inertial sensing through accelerometers, gyroscopes) * activity detection and tracking (inertial, acoustic, vibrotactile for classification, counting, vibrometry) * occupation and use (electricity monitoring, water consumption, single-point sensing) * cardiovascular (electrocardioagraphy, photoplethysmography, pulse oximetry, ballistocardiography, blood pressure, pulse transit time, bio impedance) * affective computing (heart rate variability, R-R intervals, electrodermal activity, sympathetic tone, facial expressions) * neurological (fatigue, fatigability) * location (GPS, BLE, Wifi)
Inhalt	"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it" — Mark Weiser, 1991. This is the premise of Ubiquitous Computing, a vision that is slowly becoming reality as everything is a device and we can interact with information and with each other anywhere, mediated through miniature technology. Along with this change, interaction modalities have changed, too, from explicit input on keyboards and mice to implicit and passively observed input through sensors in the environment (e.g., speakers, cameras, temperature/occupancy detectors) and those we now wear on our bodies (e.g., health sensors, activity sensors, miniature computers we call smartwatches). In this course, we will look at the technical side of Ubicomp, particularly – sensing (incl. 'signals', sampling, data acquisition methods, controlled user studies, uncontrolled studies in-the-wild), – processing (incl. frequencies, feature extraction, detection), and – sense making: input sensing (touch & gesture), activity sensing (motion), monitoring cardiovascular health, affective state, neurological conditions (with basics on cardiovascular physiology + PPG, PulseOx, ECG, EDA, BCG, SCG, HRV, BioZ, IPG, PAT, PTT), context & location sensing (GPS/Wifi, motion). Lectures will be accompanied by practical sessions that focus on sensor modalities and signal processing. Here, we will work on existing data sets and devise methods to record our own data for processing and prediction purposes. A series of reading assignments, covering both well-established publications in Ubicomp as well as emerging results and methods, will bridge the fundamentals and topics taught in class to academic research and real-world problems. More information on the course site: https://teaching.siplab.org/ubiquitous_computing/2021/
Skript	Copies of slides will be made available. Lectures will be recorded and made available online. More information on the course site: https://teaching.siplab.org/ubiquitous_computing/2021/
Literatur	Will be provided in the lecture. To put you in the mood: Mark Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104

Software Engineering
Kernfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
263-2925-00L	Program Analysis for System Security and Reliability	W	7 KP	2V + 1U + 3A	M. Vechev
Kurzbeschreibung	Security issues in modern systems (blockchains, datacenters, deep learning, etc.) result in billions of losses due to hacks and system downtime. This course introduces fundamental techniques (ranging from automated analysis, machine learning, synthesis, zero-knowledge and their combinations) that can be applied in practice so to build more secure and reliable modern systems.
Lernziel	* Understand the fundamental techniques used to create modern security and reliability analysis engines that are used worldwide. * Understand how symbolic techniques are combined with machine learning (e.g., deep learning, reinforcement learning) so to create new kinds of learning-based analyzers. * Understand how to quantify and fix security and reliability issues in modern deep learning models. * Understand open research questions from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Inhalt	Please see: https://www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/teaching/pass2021 for detailed course content.

Wahlfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
263-2812-00L	Program Verification Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 30.	W	5 KP	3G + 1A	P. Müller, C. Matheja
Kurzbeschreibung	A hands-on introduction to the theory and construction of deductive program verifiers, covering both powerful techniques for formal program reasoning, and a perspective over the tool stack making up modern verification tools.
Lernziel	Students will earn the necessary skills for designing, developing, and applying deductive verification tools that enable the modular verification of complex software, including features challenging for reasoning such as heap-based mutable data and concurrency. Students will learn both a variety of fundamental reasoning principles, and how these reasoning ideas can be made practical via automatic tools. By the end of the course, students should have a good working understanding and decisions involved with designing and building practical verification tools, including the underlying theory. They will also be able to apply such tools to develop formally-verified programs.
Inhalt	The course will cover verification techniques and ways to automate them by introducing a verifier for a small core language and then progressively enriching the language with advanced features such as a mutable heap and concurrency. For each language extension, the course will explain the necessary reasoning principles, specification techniques, and tool support. In particular, it will introduce SMT solvers to prove logical formulas, intermediate verification languages to encode verification problems, and source code verifiers to handle feature-rich languages. The course will intermix technical content with hands-on experience.
Skript	The slides will be available online.
Literatur	Will be announced in the lecture.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	A basic familiarity with propositional and first-order logic will be assumed. Courses with an emphasis on formal reasoning about programs (such as Formal Methods and Functional Programming) are advantageous background, but are not a requirement.
263-2815-00L	Automated Software Testing	W	7 KP	2V + 1U + 3A	Z. Su
Kurzbeschreibung	This course introduces students to classic and modern techniques for the automated testing and analysis of software systems for reliability, security, and performance. It covers both techniques and their applications in various domains (e.g., compilers, databases, theorem provers, operating systems, machine/deep learning, and mobile applications), focusing on the latest, important results.
Lernziel	* Learn fundamental and practical techniques for software testing and analysis * Understand the challenges, open issues and opportunities across a variety of domains (security/systems/compilers/databases/mobile/AI/education) * Understand how latest automated testing and analysis techniques work * Gain conceptual and practical experience in techniques/tools for reliability, security, and performance * Learn how to perform original and impactful research in this area
Inhalt	The course will be organized into the following components: (1) classic and modern testing and analysis techniques (coverage metrics, mutation testing, metamorphic testing, combinatorial testing, symbolic execution, fuzzing, static analysis, etc.), (2) latest results on techniques and applications from diverse domains, and (3) open challenges and opportunities. A major component of this course is a class project. All students (individually or two-person teams) are expected to select and complete a course project. Ideally, the project is original research related in a broad sense to automated software testing and analysis. Potential project topics will also be suggested by the teaching staff. Students must select a project and write a one or two pages proposal describing why what the proposed project is interesting and giving a work schedule. Students will also write a final report describing the project and prepare a 20-30 minute presentation at the end of the course. The due dates for the project proposal, final report, and project presentation will be announced. The course will cover results from the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab at ETH as well as notable results elsewhere, providing good opportunities for potential course project topics as well as MSc project/thesis topics.
Skript	Lecture notes/slides and other lecture materials/handouts will be available online.
Literatur	Reading material and links to tools will be published on the course website.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	The prerequisites for this course are some programming and algorithmic experience. Background and experience in software engineering, programming languages/compilers, and security (as well as operating systems and databases) can be beneficial.

Theoretical Computer Science
Kernfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
261-5110-00L	Optimization for Data Science	W	10 KP	3V + 2U + 4A	B. Gärtner, D. Steurer, N. He
Kurzbeschreibung	This course provides an in-depth theoretical treatment of optimization methods that are particularly relevant in data science.
Lernziel	Understanding the theoretical guarantees (and their limits) of relevant optimization methods used in data science. Learning general paradigms to deal with optimization problems arising in data science.
Inhalt	This course provides an in-depth theoretical treatment of optimization methods that are particularly relevant in machine learning and data science. In the first part of the course, we will first give a brief introduction to convex optimization, with some basic motivating examples from machine learning. Then we will analyse classical and more recent first and second order methods for convex optimization: gradient descent, Nesterov's accelerated method, proximal and splitting algorithms, subgradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, variance-reduced methods, Newton's method, and Quasi-Newton methods. The emphasis will be on analysis techniques that occur repeatedly in convergence analyses for various classes of convex functions. We will also discuss some classical and recent theoretical results for nonconvex optimization. In the second part, we discuss convex programming relaxations as a powerful and versatile paradigm for designing efficient algorithms to solve computational problems arising in data science. We will learn about this paradigm and develop a unified perspective on it through the lens of the sum-of-squares semidefinite programming hierarchy. As applications, we are discussing non-negative matrix factorization, compressed sensing and sparse linear regression, matrix completion and phase retrieval, as well as robust estimation.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	As background, we require material taught in the course "252-0209-00L Algorithms, Probability, and Computing". It is not necessary that participants have actually taken the course, but they should be prepared to catch up if necessary.

Wahlfächer
Nummer	Titel	Typ	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
252-1424-00L	Models of Computation	W	6 KP	2V + 2U + 1A	M. Cook
Kurzbeschreibung	This course surveys many different models of computation: Turing Machines, Cellular Automata, Finite State Machines, Graph Automata, Circuits, Tilings, Lambda Calculus, Fractran, Chemical Reaction Networks, Hopfield Networks, String Rewriting Systems, Tag Systems, Diophantine Equations, Register Machines, Primitive Recursive Functions, and more.
Lernziel	The goal of this course is to become acquainted with a wide variety of models of computation, to understand how models help us to understand the modeled systems, and to be able to develop and analyze models appropriate for new systems.
Inhalt	This course surveys many different models of computation: Turing Machines, Cellular Automata, Finite State Machines, Graph Automata, Circuits, Tilings, Lambda Calculus, Fractran, Chemical Reaction Networks, Hopfield Networks, String Rewriting Systems, Tag Systems, Diophantine Equations, Register Machines, Primitive Recursive Functions, and more.
263-4400-00L	Advanced Graph Algorithms and Optimization	W	8 KP	3V + 1U + 3A	R. Kyng, M. Probst
Kurzbeschreibung	This course will cover a number of advanced topics in optimization and graph algorithms.
Lernziel	The course will take students on a deep dive into modern approaches to graph algorithms using convex optimization techniques. By studying convex optimization through the lens of graph algorithms, students should develop a deeper understanding of fundamental phenomena in optimization. The course will cover some traditional discrete approaches to various graph problems, especially flow problems, and then contrast these approaches with modern, asymptotically faster methods based on combining convex optimization with spectral and combinatorial graph theory.
Inhalt	Students should leave the course understanding key concepts in optimization such as first and second-order optimization, convex duality, multiplicative weights and dual-based methods, acceleration, preconditioning, and non-Euclidean optimization. Students will also be familiarized with central techniques in the development of graph algorithms in the past 15 years, including graph decomposition techniques, sparsification, oblivious routing, and spectral and combinatorial preconditioning.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	This course is targeted toward masters and doctoral students with an interest in theoretical computer science. Students should be comfortable with design and analysis of algorithms, probability, and linear algebra. Having passed the course Algorithms, Probability, and Computing (APC) is highly recommended, but not formally required. If you are not sure whether you're ready for this class or not, please consult the instructor.
272-0302-00L	Approximations- und Online-Algorithmen Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.	W	5 KP	2V + 1U + 1A
Kurzbeschreibung	Diese Lerneinheit behandelt approximative Verfahren für schwere Optimierungsprobleme und algorithmische Ansätze zur Lösung von Online-Problemen sowie die Grenzen dieser Ansätze.
Lernziel	Auf systematische Weise einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Entwurfsmethoden von approximativen Verfahren für schwere Optimierungsprobleme und Online-Probleme zu gewinnen. Methoden kennenlernen, die Grenzen dieser Ansätze aufweisen.
Inhalt	Approximationsalgorithmen sind einer der erfolgreichsten Ansätze zur Behandlung schwerer Optimierungsprobleme. Dabei untersucht man die sogenannte Approximationsgüte, also das Verhältnis der Kosten einer berechneten Näherungslösung und der Kosten einer (nicht effizient berechenbaren) optimalen Lösung. Bei einem Online-Problem ist nicht die gesamte Eingabe von Anfang an bekannt, sondern sie erscheint stückweise und für jeden Teil der Eingabe muss sofort ein entsprechender Teil der endgültigen Ausgabe produziert werden. Die Güte eines Algorithmus für ein Online-Problem misst man mit der competitive ratio, also dem Verhältnis der Kosten der berechneten Lösung und der Kosten einer optimalen Lösung, wie man sie berechnen könnte, wenn die gesamte Eingabe bekannt wäre. Inhalt dieser Lerneinheit sind - die Klassifizierung von Optimierungsproblemen nach der erreichbaren Approximationsgüte, - systematische Methoden zum Entwurf von Approximationsalgorithmen (z. B. Greedy-Strategien, dynamische Programmierung, LP-Relaxierung), - Methoden zum Nachweis der Nichtapproximierbarkeit, - klassische Online-Probleme wie Paging oder Scheduling-Probleme und Algorithmen zu ihrer Lösung, - randomisierte Online-Algorithmen, - Entwurfs- und Analyseverfahren für Online-Algorithmen, - Grenzen des "competitive ratio"- Modells und Advice-Komplexität als eine Möglichkeit, die Komplexität von Online-Problemen genauer zu messen.
Literatur	Die Vorlesung orientiert sich teilweise an folgenden Büchern: J. Hromkovic: Algorithmics for Hard Problems, Springer, 2004 D. Komm: An Introduction to Online Computation: Determinism, Randomization, Advice, Springer, 2016 Zusätzliche Literatur: A. Borodin, R. El-Yaniv: Online Computation and Competitive Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1998
401-3052-10L	Graph Theory	W	10 KP	4V + 1U	B. Sudakov
Kurzbeschreibung	Basics, trees, Caley's formula, matrix tree theorem, connectivity, theorems of Mader and Menger, Eulerian graphs, Hamilton cycles, theorems of Dirac, Ore, Erdös-Chvatal, matchings, theorems of Hall, König, Tutte, planar graphs, Euler's formula, Kuratowski's theorem, graph colorings, Brooks' theorem, 5-colorings of planar graphs, list colorings, Vizing's theorem, Ramsey theory, Turán's theorem
Lernziel	The students will get an overview over the most fundamental questions concerning graph theory. We expect them to understand the proof techniques and to use them autonomously on related problems.
Skript	Lecture will be only at the blackboard.
Literatur	West, D.: "Introduction to Graph Theory" Diestel, R.: "Graph Theory" Further literature links will be provided in the lecture.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Students are expected to have a mathematical background and should be able to write rigorous proofs.

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