Digital Humanities in Pandemic Times: A Data Scientist’s Approach

Digital Humanities in Pandemic Times: A Data Scientist’s Approach

By John Maxwell / 27 April 2020

To steer clear of false or misinterpreted information during the pandemic, Robert West advises a three-pronged strategy: check the sources of data interpretations and of the data itself; check whether graphs representing coronavirus data are linear or logarithmic; and retain the correct perspective by staying updated about data on the virus.

picture of Nanoplasma-enabled picosecond switch

New Nanodevice to Bridge the Terahertz Gap

By John Maxwell / 14 April 2020

The nanodevice has the capacity to generate terahertz waves that are 20 times more powerful than any existing device today. That is a revolutionary advancement in the field because terahertz waves, despite their immense potential, are extremely difficult to achieve.

Atri Bhattacharyya Awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

By John Maxwell / 31 March 2020

Atri joined EPFL in 2016 and completed his MS in Computer Science in 2018. Since then, he has worked at EPFL in the areas of microarchitectural security and design, and datacenter architectures. Through his years at EPFL, Atri has worked under the supervision of Prof. Babak Falsafi, Prof. Paolo Ienne, and Prof. M. Payer, completing many projects along the way.