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ClearSpace will use Minority Report technology from EPFL

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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Anne-Marie Kermarrec is appointed as Associate Vice-President

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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Harnessing AI for Health Promotion – the visit of Amir Rahmani

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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Landmark award for EcoCloud’s directors, old and new

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and […]

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Annual Event Program for 2024 is Published!

The program for our Annual Event at Lausanne Palace has been published. Tuesday, 8th October Keynotes from Anastasia Ailamaki and Hassan Chafi Presentation by Anna Fontcuberta-Morral Talks from David Atienza, Olga Fink, Maria Brbic, Antoine Bosselut, Sanidhya Kashyap, Clément Pit-Claudel, Thomas Bourgeat, Andreas Burg, Alexandre Levisse, Miguel Peón Quirós, Xavier […]

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SDEA features in Swiss news as the 2024 standard takes off

The SDEA efficiency standards have been featured on RTS and SwissInfo as more and more players realise the importance of taking greater control over data centre power usage. “Data centres have become the pillars of the digital economy. However, we don’t know how sustainable their energy consumption is,” says Babak […]

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Advanced thermal management with GemaTEG

People are making increasingly large demands of “The Cloud”, from ever larger data backups to multiplying numbers of virtual machines. In turn, this means that data centers need to use more energy to power their infrastructure, and even more energy to keep their machines cool. In order to lower their […]

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EPFL Swiss Federal Offices Day 2024

On 7 October 2024, this one-day conference will offer a unique opportunity to explore Federal funding programmes and meet their representatives. Federal Offices represent a major source of research funding in Switzerland, in particular at EPFL. They also drive research in specific directions, through topical calls. On October 7, representatives […]

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