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EPFL appoints new professors

Published:30.09.11 — Holder of computing’s most prestigious prize, the Turing Award, Joseph Sifakis is one of ten professors nominated today by the Counsel of Swiss Institutes of Technology (ETH board).

The urban architecture of tomorrow is being designed in Basel

Published:30.09.11 — EPFL is inaugurating an urban design laboratory within the walls of the famous Ackermannshof complex, located in the heart of the student district of the city on the Rhine. This is a strategic location and will thus enable multiple opportunities for cooperation, in particular with ETHZ’s Studio Basel.

Robots of a feather flock together

Published:29.09.11 — Up to ten autonomous flying robots flock like birds in a real-sky experiment.

Nissan teams up with EPFL for futurist car interfaces

Published:28.09.11 — After scanning the thought patterns of its driver, the car of tomorrow will be able to predict its next move.

Professionals learn risk management at EPFL

Published:27.09.11 — For the first time, EPFL is sharing its expertise and offering a continuing education program in risk management geared for professionals. Companies are exposed to many kinds of risk; they must be able to respond immediately, because the immobilization of an entire production chain is very costly.

A faster, cheaper method for making transistors and chips

Published:26.09.11 — It may soon be possible manufacture the miniscule structures that make up transistors and silicon chips rapidly and inexpensively. EPFL scientists are currently investigating the use of dynamic stencil lithography, a recent but not yet perfected method, for creating nanostructures.

A made-to-measure social network for the academic world

Published:22.09.11 — The scientists working at EPFL didn’t wait for Netvibes to get famous on connecting through a collaborative Web 2.0 platform. Already completely functional, Graaasp goes one step further than social networks, it responds to the specific needs of the academic world in terms of project management and knowledge sharing.