Following a keynote at HiPEAC 2025, Prof. de Micheli was speaking to EETimes about the future of hardware technology in Europe. We have unprecedented challenges in Hardware design, just to support machine learning and AI, and I think we really need a broad collaboration. We need collaboration among countries because […]
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Following a keynote presentation at HiPEAC 2025, Prof. Giovanni de Micheli was interviewed about the future of computing from a European perspective. Do you feel developments in Europe are on par with what is happening around the world in Computing? I think Europe can do better and I think it […]
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The tank is almost empty. It contained university entrance exams, complex mathematical problems and, of course, the famous Turing test. But week after week, ChatGPT and competing systems manage to pass all these exams, with increasingly high scores. Hence the idea, launched this week, to find other ways of judging […]
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The EPFL AI Center spoke to Dr. Xavier Ouvrard about the EcoCloud Research Facility. AI is not disconnected from materiality, so it requires energy, it requires cooling, it requires a lot of topics that need to be covered by an holistic approach in order to improve the overall sustainability (of […]
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The X-HEEP event X-AGORA III was a great success! We were around 35 people in the room and 25 online, from 9 universities and companies. Feel free to watch the entire proceedings below.
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According to Prof. Martin Kemp, in a talk he gave at EPFL in 2011, if Leonardo da Vinci looked at ripples of water, long wavy hair or wispy clouds, he always saw the same thing – patterns. To a Renaissance man these patterns were simply different manifestations of similar phenomena. […]
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EPFL’s new Kuma supercomputer, which ranks 23rd in the Green500 ranking, illustrates EPFL’s efforts to support cutting-edge research with a low environmental impact. With Kuma, EPFL is helping anchor Switzerland’s position at the forefront of sustainable computing. EPFL’s research labs produce eye-watering amounts of data every day. For instance, those […]
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Satellites are open to attack. All communications systems are vulnerable to hackers by definition, and are protected accordingly, with hardware and software. However, because they reside outside the protection of the Earth’s atmosphere, satellites are perhaps exposed to the mightiest and most unpredictable hacker of all: the Sun. “The Sun’s […]
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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been appointed to the new role of Associate Vice-president for Doctoral and Lifelong Education (AVP- DLE), a role she will take up in January, 2025. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has led the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory (SaCS) within the School of Computer […]
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At the end of August we were delighted to receive Dr. Rahmani of the UCI Institute for Future Health, University of California, Irvine. His talk, which was entited “Future Health: Harnessing Multimodal Data and GenAI for Health Promotion”, explore how how AI, including generative AI and wearable technology are revolutionizing […]
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