Articles by John

ACM Award for doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Tempia Calvino, who received the ACM SIGDA best dissertation award for his doctoral thesis, as a member of Prof. Giovanni De Micheli’s Laboratory of Integrated Systems. This award was given at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) conference in Verona. Read more about Technology Mapping and Optimization Algorithms for Logic Synthesis […]

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David Atienza elected to Academia Europaea

Following a competitive recommendation and peer-review process, EPFL professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering David Atienza has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences. The not-for-profit Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, aims to advance excellence in scholarship in the humanities; law; the economic, social, and political […]

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Innovation Day immersion for EPFL EMBA participants

EcoCloud’s Prof. David Atienza and Dr. Miguel Peón took part in Innovation Day, Through visits and real-world insights blended with in-class lectures, the participants got to learn about exoskeleton technologies, the Internet of Things in practice, and how robotic systems are transforming decision-making in uncertain environments.

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Prashant Nair to give a talk: Scaling the Memory Wall

The director of the Systems and Architectures (STAR) of the University of British Columbia (UBC) will the following talk: Scaling the Memory Wall : Towards 3D-DRAM-based Accelerators for Efficient Generative Inference Prof. Prashant Nair is the lead architect of the 3D-memory architecture at d-Matrix for their upcoming accelerators. He is […]

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SDEA wins award for contributions to energy efficiency

The Swiss Datacenter Efficiency Association, a non-profit consortium founded in 2020 by EcoCloud founder Prof. Babak Falsafi, has won the award for “Special contribution to improving energy efficiency” at last week’s Data Centre World ceremony in London. SDEA seeks to achieve higher energy efficiency standards, to reduce the impact on […]

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Do we really need big data centers for AI?

EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up – that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the business model of Big Tech. The use of artificial intelligence for everyday […]

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