August 2008

ETH Zurich creates new lab
with Walt Disney

The ETH Zurich has announced a five-year research and development initiative with The Walt Disney Company. ETH and Disney plan to launch the initiative this coming October. A research lab specializing in animation will be located at ETH Zurich’s main campus in the heart of Zurich. Ed Catmull, president of the Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, said: “Creating the next generation of sophisticated technologies requires long-term vision and collaboration with world-class innovators.” To be Disney’s European location of choice is further proof of ETH Zurich’s excellent international reputation and the outstanding quality of its research and development. At the new lab in Zurich, a staff of about 20 will conduct applied research in close cooperation with ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science, mostly with the Visual Computing and the Computer Graphics laboratories. The emphasis will be on research in computer animation, geometric modelling, computational photography, image generation, video processing, artificial intelligence and robotics. In addition to the R&D collaboration, the highly qualified Disney scientists and engineers will also be invited to teach classes in ETH’s graduate and doctorate programmes.

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