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In addition to its core research activities as outlined below, the Swiss AI Initiative is distributing 10-20 million GPU hours in 2025 for disruptive research projects through open calls. We look for research projects that aim to contribute to advances in AI fundamentals or impactful applications of AI. Researchers outside…

Developed from EPFL research, in collaboration with MIT and Yale, the combination of secure computation and distributed algorithms opens a new era for data collaborations in medical research.

EPFL has set up a Mastodon server for the School community, allowing members to post and share content in a way that’s aligned with the values of open science. We opted for Mastodon because independence and effective communication tools are critical.

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a weapon of mass disinformation, but a recent report has demonstrated that its impact thus far has been limited

Canton Vaud’s [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost ! The aim of this latest call for projects is to stimulate collaborative innovation in order to propose solutions that help meet the challenges of multimedia content security, from data…

Canton Vaud's [seal] Program funds projects in digital trust and cybersecurity with up to CHF 100K or 90% of cost !

In this fourth part of the blog series “Swiss e-ID journey”, we give an overview of the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) [10] landscape in CH, EU, and beyond. This allows the reader to put the current effort of the e-ID in context with international efforts in references and implementations regarding e-ID…

C4DT Demonstrator using the Swiss Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure This is our third article about the Swiss e-ID Journey. An overview of the system can be found in our first article, Switzerland’s e-ID journey so far [1a], and an introduction to the first steps of using the sandbox [8] in…

Join us in the further explorations of the Swiss E-ID journey. This time we're diving into the technical details of the current Public Sandbox Trust Infrastructure of the Swiss government. You'll learn how the different parts work together, and why self-sovereign IDs are useful to preserve your privacy. This article…

A new EPFL study has demonstrated the persuasive power of Large Language Models, finding that participants debating GPT-4 with access to their personal information were far more likely to change their opinion compared to those who debated humans.

Our new C4DT Digital Governance Book Review is out! This time: Anu Bradford (2023) “Digital Empires. The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.” In her new book, Bradford offers an in-depth, objective analysis of the three dominant regulatory models for digitalization—market-driven by the US, state-driven by China, and citizen-driven by the…

The C4DT launches 3 different initiatives to promote and enable trustworthy and sovereign cloud computing. They build on C4DT’s Conference on Trustworthy and Sovereign Cloud Computing, which was held in September 2023 at the Starling Hotel in St.-Sulpice, and discussions with our partners and conference participants.

A noteworthy development in the field of innovation sees EPFL, HEIG-VD and UNIL joining forces at the highest level, with the support of the Canton of Vaud, to unveil the outline of the [seal] Program. This initiative aims to stimulate collaboration between the three universities and accelerate the transfer of…

We are delighted to announce that two additional partners have joined the C4DT community!

[nzz.ch][Lang : En] "Universities also have to develop AI - this is the only way to guarantee that the technology remains transparent" -- Marcel Salathé, professor of digital epidemiology and co-director of the EPFL AI Center.

[rts.ch][Lang : Fr] Dans le 19h30, le professeur à l'EPFL Rachid Guerraoui tire le bilan d'une technologie qui s'insère petit à petit dans notre quotidien.

On October 4th, C4DT brought together 20 stakeholders from the Swiss service public sector, administration, politics, civil society and academia to discuss the relationship between digital platforms and traditional physical public services. The goal was to explore the need for action, room for maneuver, and potential initiatives to develop recommendations…

Congratulations to C4DT associated professor Touradj Ebrahimi for being elected as a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association thanks to his pioneering activities at the intersection between #AI and Trust. AAIA gathers top scientists in different disciplines that can be combined with AI, AI related institutions, and entrepreneurs that…

[bilan.ch] [langue : Français] Assureurs et employeurs peuvent obtenir des informations sur les métadonnées. Olivier Crochat, directeur exécutif du Center for Digital Trust de l’EPFL, met en garde les utilisateurs de ces outils. // Article protégé par un paywall.

[rts.ch] La RTS s'intéresse aux progrès de l'intelligence artificielle, et interview le Prof. Rachid Guerraoui, affilié au C4DT, en direct de l'EPFL.

[L'Illustré] Qu'est-ce qu'un deepfake? Comment se «fabrique»-t-il et quels en sont les buts et les dangers? Interview avec Prof. Ebrahimi, affilié au C4DT.

On June 15, 2022, a shadowy hacker group known as TA551 set its sights on a company that offers training and certification to IT administrators, system administrators and other vital IT personnel working for some of the world’s largest corporations. From there it was game on. The hackers replaced the…

Alors que toute l’Europe est en alerte face à une guerre informatique parallèle qui viendrait répondre aux représailles économiques déployées par les pays occidentaux contre la Russie, la lanceuse d’alerte Chelsea Manning relativise l’efficacité de ces attaques, dans le conflit en cours depuis le 24 février en Ukraine.