Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

A close collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers and ICVR at ETH Zurich is being established.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

The InterCityExpress or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn in Germany and large cities in neighbouring countries, such as Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm ( IDEA ) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, handling 20. 7 million passengers in 2007.

Almost 20 % of all conscripts were found unfit for military or civilian service in 2008 ; the rate is generally higher in urban cantons such as Zurich and Geneva than in the rural ones.

* 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic.

Zurich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres.

The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh.

In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut.

Zurich is sometimes referred to as " Downtown Switzerland " for publicity reasons.

The blue and white coat of arms of Zurich is attested from 1389, and was derived from banners with blue and white stripes in use since 1315.

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

Lake Zug () is a lake in Central Switzerland, situated between Lucerne and Zurich.

Proudly situated ( where fortified walls once stood ), visible from all sides on a terrace overlooking the core of Zurich, the new school became the herald of a new epoch.

The canton of Zurich is situated north of the Alps.

Bishops Cleeve has two primary schools ; Grangefield is the relatively newest primary school built after the Western extension of Bishops Cleeve, built on land owned by the Zurich and Capita who are situated in the tallest and biggest commercial building in Bishops Cleeve behind the school.

Entirely situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Zurich, Thurgau and Geneva ; mostly situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Lucerne, Aargau, Solothurn, Bern, Fribourg and Vaud ; small portions of the Swiss Plateau are situated in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Zug, Schwyz, St. Gallen and Schaffhausen.

All the Swiss cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants except Basel and Lugano are situated in the plateau, especially Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich.

The two most important Swiss airports are situated in the plateau, Zurich International Airport and Geneva Cointrin International Airport.

Paradeplatz, one of the most famous squares in Switzerland, is situated towards the end of the Bahnhofstrasse closest to Lake Zurich.

It is now situated in new premises close to the centre of Zurich at Selnaustrasse 25, in a former power station.

That year it bought Nikols Sedgwick Group, an Italian insurance firm, and formed RiskAttack ( with Zurich U. S .), a risk analysis and financial management concern aimed at technology companies.

Zurich Dada, with Tzara at the helm, published the art and literature review Dada beginning in July 1917, with five editions from Zurich and the final two from Paris.

At the same time that the Zurich Dadaists made noise and spectacle at the Cabaret Voltaire, Vladimir Lenin wrote his revolutionary plans for Russia in a nearby apartment.

Dijkstra at the blackboard during a conference at ETH Zurich in 1994

While there, he was one of eight delegates with a background in guided weapons projects to address the Fourth International Congress of Astronautics in Zurich in August 1953, at a time when, as The New York Times reported, most scientists saw space flight as thinly disguised science fiction.

On June 16, he entered the Cantonal Hospital in Zurich for an " angioplasty on his femoral artery " but suffered a stroke at the Grand Hotel in Rimini two months later.

From Zurich, Fichte returned to Leipzig, and in 1791 obtained a tutorship at Warsaw, in the house of a Polish nobleman.

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

The cantons responded with an attack at a moment when Zurich was badly prepared.

In late 1518, the post of the Leutpriestertum ( people's priest ) of the Grossmünster at Zurich became vacant.

When Sanson arrived at the gates of Zurich at the end of January 1519, parishioners prompted Zwingli with questions.

In August 1519, Zurich was struck by an outbreak of the plague during which at least one in four persons died.

He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich ( from 1962 to 1965 ) and made his first paintings as a means of art therapy.

In 1799 the Russian army expelled the French from Italy in battles such as Cassano, while the Austrian army defeated the French in Switzerland at Stockach and Zurich.

Most recently, in 2012, he describes himself as an analyst at a Zurich based investment bank.

The scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level, was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.

From 1963 to 1967 he served as assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich.