Swiss national radio channel RTS spoke to Dr. Xavier Ouvrard, of EcoCloud and Prof. David Atienza, Associate Vice-President for Centers and Platforms at EPFL about current trends in data center technology at the EcoCloud research facility. You can listen to the interview in French, or read the transcript in English, […]

Technology generally follows our desire to have always more accuracy. Our smartphones constantly promise more detailed images, and higher resolution video. However, in some contexts, lower resolution is better. Dr. Chang Meng of the Laboratory of Integrated Systems has a curious research goal: “My work is to introduce more harmless […]

There are thousands of courses on offer at EPFL, covering topics as far apart as socio-environmental learning and epilepsy monitoring. We decided to have a closer look at a very special course, one which brings together the three fundamental principles of EPFL Institutes: education, research and industry. Field Programmable Gate […]

If a doctor wants to know how well a cough treatment is working, it can be useful to know exactly how frequently the patient has been coughing. However, a patient’s state of mind might influence the impression they have about this: whether they are happy or sad, tired or not, […]

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 […]

The UrbanTwin project brings together the energy, environmental and IT communities, as required for the achievement of its goals. Indeed, a multi-disciplinary approach is required in order to address the complexity of the multi-infrastructure modelling as well as the development of an energy efficient and highly performant IT-based digital twin […]