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2015-12-20
'JPEG changed our world' - [Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:00:04 +0100 ] 12.12.14 - JPEG is the image format we use the most in the world, be it in our computers, smartphones or digital cameras. But it is actually more than that. JPEG is also an international group of experts, which recently elected as its head an EPFL Professor: Touradj Ebrahimi. The new President sheds light on the JPEG adventure and gives us an overview of new features in development. Four letters, over twenty years in existence and a virtual world monopoly in image compression. The JPEG standard, which is ...
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2015-12-20
'Nature has worked in our favor' - [Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:00:04 +0200 ] 15.10.14 - Biorobotics’ aim is to design more efficient robots based on locomotion solutions developed by the animal world. In such a way, it provides new research tools for biologists. Prof. Auke Ijspeert, specialist in the field, shares his thoughts on the evolution of this expanding field. Whether flyers, swimmers, walkers or crawlers, animal species have developed a wide range of solutions to move efficiently in their environment. For biorobotics specialists, these models constitute a source of ...
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2015-12-20
'Protecting privacy also means preserving democracy' - [Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:09:19 +0200 ] 29.08.14 - What impact does the proliferation of new mobile technologies have? How does the sharing of personal data over the Internet threaten our society? Interview with Professor Jean-Pierre Hubaux, a specialist in communication networks and privacy protection, a major field of IT security.Jean-Pierre Hubaux as a professor at the EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences. During the last decade, Jean-Pierre Hubaux and his team at the Laboratory for Computer Communications and Applications ...
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2015-12-20
'Tapping into the vast potential of satellites' - [Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:00:02 +0200 ] 12.04.13 - Satellites can be used in many applications, such as identifying micromovements in a dam, managing a fleet of vehicles, and monitoring logging operations in a protected forest or a coffee plantation. Helping Swiss companies and communities make better use of space technology is the mission of José Achache, the European Space Agency’s EPFL-based Ambassador.Space technologies, and above all satellites, have enormous potential in many areas such as logistics, natural resource exploitation, ...
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2015-12-20
"Tapping into the vast potential of satellites" - [Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:00:02 +0200 ] 12.04.13 - Satellites can be used in many applications, such as identifying micromovements in a dam, managing a fleet of vehicles, and monitoring logging operations in a protected forest or a coffee plantation. Helping Swiss companies and communities make better use of space technology is the mission of José Achache, the European Space Agency’s EPFL-based Ambassador.Space technologies, and above all satellites, have enormous potential in many areas such as logistics, natural resource exploitation, ...
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2015-12-20
“All cities are similar, yet singular.” - [Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:00:05 +0100 ] 24.01.14 - In a cinematographic manifesto, Jacques Levy, a geographer and urban designer at EPFL, offers a scientific and artistic investigation of cities. With a special focus on China’s urban centers, he draws parallels between Italo Calvino’s book “Invisible Cities” and the real world.An EFPL professor has decided to communicate findings from his research in a film – an atypical approach carried out by an atypical researcher in a scientific environment that traditionally favors the written ...
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2015-12-20
“An operation as huge as the Moon landing” - [Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:00:07 +0100 ] 14.11.14 - The small robot Philae left its mothership Rosetta and landed on the back of the comet Chury, 500 million kilometers away from Earth. Although there are still uncertainties about its anchorage, the achievement is a major leap forward for science. Grégoire Bourban, space engineer and Deputy Director of the EPFL Swiss Space Center, shares his expert viewpoint on the event. At 5:01 pm Wednesday evening, the Philae lander touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – Chury, for ...
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2015-12-20
“An operation as huge as the Moon landing” - [Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:00:07 +0100 ] 14.11.14 - The small robot Philae left its mothership Rosetta and landed on the back of the comet Chury, 500 million kilometers away from Earth. Although there are still uncertainties about its anchorage, the achievement is a major leap forward for science. Grégoire Bourban, space engineer and director of the EPFL Swiss Space Center, shares his expert viewpoint on the event. At 5:01 pm Wednesday evening, the Philae lander touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – Chury, for short ...
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2015-12-20
“Living outside Earth is a huge challenge” - [Fri, 08 May 2015 05:00:07 +0200 ] 08.05.15 - Susana Zanello is an expert of human adaptation to life in space. Invited as an academic guest at EPFL, this renowned scientist agreed to share her views on her research, exploration, future trips to Mars and much more… Space trips affect the human body in many more ways than we think. Susana Zanello specializes in these effects. Trained as a biologist, she works for the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS) in Houston, an institution supporting the work of NASA. Her mission is to ...
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2015-12-20
“Living outside the Earth is a huge challenge” - [Fri, 08 May 2015 05:00:07 +0200 ] 08.05.15 - Susana Zanello is an expert of human adaptation to life in space. Invited as an academic guest at EPFL, this renowned scientist agreed to share her views on her research, exploration, future trips to Mars and much more… Space trips affect the human body in many more ways than we think. Susana Zanello has these effects her specialty. Trained as a biologist, she works for the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS) in Houston, an institution supporting the work of NASA. Her mission is to ...
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2015-12-20
“Our building is designed like a city” - [Wed, 13 May 2015 09:59:51 +0200 ] 13.05.15 - Models of the future “RTS Campus”, which will house Radio Télévision Suisse beside the Rolex Learning Center, have been on display in the lobby of the SG building since 12 May. We interviewed architects Kersten Geers (also an associate professor at EPFL) and David Van Severen, from the Belgian architecture firm OFFICE.What were your main sources of inspiration during the architecture competition? Kersten Geers: The circumstances surrounding this project are exceptional in several ways. ...
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2015-12-20
“Our students need to learn to solve complex problems” - [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:00:03 +0200 ] 08.10.14 - By creating the Discovery Learning Labs, EPFL is increasing the emphasis placed on practical laboratory work. This gives students a better education in their respective disciplines, and also encourages interdisciplinary collaboration. Thomas Rizzo, Dean of the School of Basic Sciences, shares his vision of the project with us. To be also discovered in the Flash. The Discovery Learning Program, fruit of a long-term educational reflection process, is taking shape today. For several years, various ...
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2015-12-20
“Promoting homeownership is not entirely risk free” - [Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:00:03 +0200 ] 10.09.14 - For twenty years, Switzerland has been promoting homeownership by letting residents draw on their pension fund assets to buy a home. In a recent study, Philippe Thalmann dispels some popular beliefs and sheds light on the consequences for the insured.It has become common practice to draw on pension fund assets to purchase a home. But this financial instrument, which will be referred to as “promoting homeownership,” is becoming increasingly controversial, to the point of being called into ...
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2015-12-20
“Promoting homeownership is not entirely risk free” - [Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:00:03 +0200 ] 10.09.14 - For twenty years, Switzerland has been promoting homeownership by letting residents draw on their pension fund assets to buy a home. In a recent study, Philippe Thalmann, EPFL professor in economics and architecture, dispels some popular beliefs and sheds light on the consequences for the insured.It has become common practice to draw on pension fund assets to purchase a home. But this financial instrument, which will be referred to as “promoting homeownership,” is becoming increasingly ...
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2015-12-20
“We should stop designing perfect circuits” - [Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:00:02 +0200 ] 02.10.13 - Are integrated circuits 'too good' for current technological applications? Christian Enz, the new Director of the Institute of Microengineering, backs the idea that perfection is overrated. Christian Enz, the head of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICLAB), explains why we should build our future devices with unreliable circuits, and adopt the 'good enough engineering' trend. Non-fully reliable circuits can lead to a substantial reduction of energy consumption. Even better, they will allow ...
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2015-12-20
“With Only 5 Million, We Have Developed a Competitive Mini-Projector” - [Wed, 14 May 2014 05:00:02 +0200 ] 14.05.14 - Lemoptix is developing an ultra-compact projector. The EPFL spin-off has already successfully entered a very competitive market, and will target new markets in 2014. A projection system barely larger than a grain of sugar is going to be integrated into many tools of daily life. From augmented reality glasses to mobile phones, from the “head-up display” system for cars to 3D scanners – Lemoptix, which now has 22 employees, hopes to finalize major contracts by the end of the year. An update ...
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2015-12-20
*1st of April* Hollow chamber within Matterhorn worries geologists - [Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:42:00 +0200 ] 01.04.14 - ** 1st of April 2014 - see you next year for a new April's fool!** The Matterhorn’s days are numbered. Although populations are not in danger, scientists warn that its predicted collapse could occur at any moment.Geologists have found evidence of a vast hollow chamber at the heart of the Matterhorn. Using triple-woven spectroscopic probes, they discovered and then re-created in three dimensions the enormous hollow chamber in the deep interior of the mountain. They measured the superficial ...
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2015-12-20
10 Professors appointed - [Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:32:47 +0100 ] 09.03.15 - The Council of Federal Institutes of Technology appointed ten professors at its march meeting. Paul Bowen has been appointed Adjunct Professor, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Engineering (STI) Paul Bowen’s research on the processing and characterization of powders combines atomistic simulations with solid experimental experience to accomplish multi-scale modeling of carbon materials. Focusing both on the acquisition of a fundamental understanding of the processes and ...
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2015-12-20
100 years of relativity and enthusiasm for bringing science to public - [Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:00:05 +0100 ] 25.11.15 - Time and space are celebrating their 100th wedding anniversary. To mark the centenary of relativity theory, Anais Rassat and her cross-Channel accomplices have put Einstein front and center in an entertaining animated film. The EPFL physicist explains her approach.On November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity at the Prussian Academy of Science. Time and space became just two sides of a single coin, and we never saw things in quite the same way again. The ...
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2015-12-20
2014 – Science That Made Headlines (1) - [Mon, 22 Dec 2014 05:00:06 +0100 ] 22.12.14 - This year a great deal of research done at EPFL made the headlines in newspapers. Here are a few that marked the first 4 months of the year. February 5 – A prosthesis that restores the sense of touch Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first amputee to recover the sense of touch. Equipped with touch sensors, his prosthetic hand could translate data into language that the nervous system can interpret. This European project united the EPFL laboratory of Silvestro Micera with several German and ...
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2015-12-20
2014 – Science That Made Headlines (2) - [Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:13:04 +0100 ] 28.12.14 - This year a great deal of research done at EPFL made the headlines in newspapers. Here are a few that marked the months of May to August. May 5 - 33 million to rehabilitate white blood cells Multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes ... When the immune system gets out of control consequences can be dramatic. The Anokion start-up will ensure the development of EPFL’s research aiming to rehabilitate rogue white blood cells. Private investors have injected CHF 33 million to this new company. ...
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2015-12-20
2014 – Science That Made Headlines (3) - [Sat, 03 Jan 2015 05:00:04 +0100 ] 03.01.15 - This year a great deal of research done at EPFL made the headlines in newspapers. Here are a few that marked the months of September to December. September 17 – Clocks: The End of Ticking The oscillator is the component responsible for the tiny, incessant ticking that has set the beat in mechanical clocks for over two centuries. The team of Simon Henein has developed a new system that is also 100% mechanical while being more accurate and completely silent. Large watchmaking firms are ...
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2015-12-20
3D-mapping a new drug-delivery tool - [Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:00:05 +0100 ] 17.11.15 - Scientists from EPFL and Nestlé have developed a new method that can “see” inside dispersed cubosomes (dispersed cubic liquid crystalline phases) with unprecedented detail. The breakthrough can help to improve their design significantly for better drug or nutrient delivery.Cubosomes are small biological “capsules” that can deliver molecules of nutrients or drugs with high efficiency. They have a highly symmetrical interior made of tiny cubes of assembled fat molecules similar to the ...
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2015-12-20
A 'micro-tap' for treating glaucoma - [Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:19:50 +0100 ] 25.03.13 - A tiny, EPFL-designed implantable device that can be positioned within the eye and controlled remotely may well revolutionize the treatment of glaucoma. The device should be through testing this year and on its way to the market in 2014 via Rheon Medical, an EPFL spin-off. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness globally, after cataracts. It is characterized by the presence of too much liquidbetween the cornea and the iris. This leads to a build-up of pressure within the eye, a ...
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2015-12-20
A "micro-tap" for treating glaucoma - [Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:19:50 +0100 ] 25.03.13 - A tiny, EPFL-designed implantable device that can be positioned within the eye and controlled remotely may well revolutionize the treatment of glaucoma. The device should be through testing this year and on its way to the market in 2014 via Rheon Medical, an EPFL spin-off. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness globally, after cataracts. It is characterized by the presence of too much liquidbetween the cornea and the iris. This leads to a build-up of pressure within the eye, a ...
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