Distributed Computing
ETH Zurich

Apps

Although most of our research is theoretical, sometimes we do have projects with a practical benefit. Below are some of our practical highlights: apps, software, and spin-off companies. Some of these are still actively developed or still working, and some are not functional anymore, and merely listed for sentimentality.

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Jass

Jass

Jass is the most popular Swiss card game. On this site you can play a classic Schieber, with and against your friends or powerful deep-learning bots. The site also offers fair games, so no more excuses about unfair cards.

ConfSearch

ConfSearch

Need a conference to submit your paper? Confsearch lets you search matching conferences in various ways (keywords, similar conference, authors, etc.), covering pretty much all computer science conferences.

Adaptive Teaching

Adaptive Teaching

What is the capital of Switzerland? Our tool generates multiple choice questions based on a file, a website, or a keyword, and more.

Trials

Trials

Motorcycle trials. Use W, S, A, D for steering. Reinforcement learning is building the course while you drive, based on how you drive.

HomeDetective

HomeDetective

HomeDetective is a powerful apartment and house search tool for Switzerland. Find your next home with elaborate search filters: map regions, functions, full text search, commute time, etc...

Shared Mobility

Shared Mobility

Find the closest wheels in Zurich: live locations of different shared vehicles in a single map. Also, compare the expected travel time and costs with different providers between any two points. Our website was discussed in local media.

Aircraft Positioning System

Aircraft Positioning System

We use the position status messages broadcast by aircraft to determine the user's position using trilateration. This is the same principle as GPS, which uses satellite signals for the same purpose.

Sandwich Attacks on Uniswap

Sandwich Attacks on Uniswap

Learn how vulnerable your transaction is. Here is a newspaper article about the phonemenon.

NoKey

NoKey

NoKey is a distributed password manager without a master password. Just have a second (and depending on your level of security: third, fourth, etc.) device ready, and your devices together will know your password using secret sharing. NoKey is available for Android, Chrome and Firefox.

BitThief

BitThief

BitThief is a free riding BitTorrent client. More than 10 years later it continues to be popular, especially in places where uploading is costly, e.g. in Africa or Japan.

Hat Hunters

Hat Hunters

Hat Hunters is a local multiplayer party game for up to four players, combining some of the best elements of Hidden in Plain Sight and Bomberman.

Sinalgo

Sinalgo

Sinalgo is a simulation framework for network algorithms in Java. Although our group is not actively developing Sinalgo anymore, Sinalgo is still popular. An active development can be found here.

Smart Route

Smart Route

Ready for some outdoor activities? Find a nice route for running, biking and other activities, and download the result to your smartphone.

Smart Cloud Storage

Smart Cloud Storage

Smart Cloud Storage (SCS) automates storage management on your Android smartphone, moving your data to and from the cloud if necessary.

Smart Phoney

Smart Phoney

A meta page about smartphone reviews, with a smartphone finder: For example, you want a headphone jack, a high screen resolution and a good battery? Here are your best matches!

Smart Phone Battle

Smart Phone Battle

Is your phone better than your friend's phone?

Retired

Wuala

Wuala

Wuala was a successful startup providing secure online file storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup service. In 2009 Wuala was merged with LaCie, and later bought by Seagate.

Bitsplitters

Bitsplitters

Bitsplitters was a startup that developed a small UV sensing system called Sunbeat to help skin cancer patients.

StreamForge

StreamForge

StreamForge was a startup that supported the peer-to-peer approach for Internet applications such as content delivery and Internet telephony.

Spamato

Spamato

Spamato was a collaborative spam filtering system with thousands of users. Google’s gmail is similar but has 1000 x 1000 x 1000 of users.

Kännsch

Kännsch

Kännsch was a keyboard for Swiss German (and other weird languages), available for Android and iOS. Thousands of people used it back then, and there was quite a bit of media coverage.

Yeti

Yeti

Yeti was a NesC editor implemented as plugin for Eclipse.

Jukefox

Jukefox

Jukefox was an Android music player which knows about music similarity. It used to be pretty popular with almost 1 million downloads.

DiscoMark

DiscoMark

DiscoMark was a benchmarking app to test a phone's performance based on app launch times. DiscoMark was popular with major reviewing sites such as AnandTech. Unfortunately, DiscoMark does not work with newer versions of Android.

ThrowMeApp

ThrowMeApp

Toss your phone for aerial pics, once Gizmodo App of the Day.

NewZap

NewZap

NewZap was one of the first smart news readers for Android.

Soundmate

Soundmate

Soundmate was a music quiz based on Jukefox.

benG

benG

An Android benchmarking app, however, only working on specific phones.

Old ConfSearch

Old ConfSearch

And for a bit of nostalgia, a screenshot of our old ConfSearch, one of our first apps.

More Android Apps

More Android Apps

Please browse some of our other Android Apps.