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[epfl.ch] [langue : Anglais] Sabine Süsstrunk, affiliée au C4DT, et Karl Aberer, deux professeurs de l'EPFL, mettent en avant l'importance de l'action entreprise par l'Homme - et non la technologie - pour lutter contre la désinformation.

[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 vague ChatGPT accélère la course à l’intelligence artificielle et à ses innovations, mais renforce les risques de désinformation à grande échelle. Invitée : Sabine Süsstrunk, professeure Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne et affiliée au C4DT.

[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.

[rts.ch] Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi, affilié au C4DT, était l'invité du Rendez-vous "Mutations" de la RTS. L'émission était notamment axée sur les deepfakes.

[Le Temps] Bruce Schneier, qui donne une conférence à l'EPFL le 16/03, a fait l'objet d'un interview dans Le Temps. Ce célèbre spécialiste en cybersécurité milite pour une défense absolue de la vie privée. Selon lui, «le respect de la vie privée, c’est la dignité humaine».

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…

SÉCURITÉ Accusée d’espionnage, l’application chinoise subit des interdictions ciblées aux Etats-Unis, dans l’Union européenne, au Canada ou encore au Danemark. Pour l’heure, Berne ne voit pas de risque, mais va demander des explications à Bruxelles. (Picture from Solen Feyissa on Unsplash)

Le service d’intelligence artificielle ChatGPT fascine la planète. Et pour cause : posez-lui la question que vous voulez et la machine vous répondra suffisamment bien pour passer un examen universitaire à votre place, rédiger vos mails ou même, c’est pour bientôt, assurer votre défense devant un tribunal. Quel bouleversement pour l’école…

L’application TikTok compte près de 440’000 adeptes en Suisse, dont un tiers de mineurs. Dans plusieurs pays, les autorités tentent de prémunir les enfants contre les dangers du réseau social, mais la tâche s’avère compliquée.

Podcast audio, au sommaire: les horizons économiques de l’intelligence artificielle; le train et l’avion en accord pour réduire l’empreinte voyage; et reportage avec les manifestants au Pérou.

EPFL professor Jacques Fellay, who served on the Swiss National Covid-19 Task Force and whose lab is affiliated with C4DT, has been selected for a new advisory committee that the government set up recently so policymakers and scientists can continue their joint efforts.

EPFL’s Professor Giovanni De Micheli was recently recognized for his strong impact on the electronic system design industry, and he sees another decade of rapid design innovation ahead.

The revamped course “Foundations of ICT and Digital Trust for Decision Makers” becomes a catalyst for responsible digital transformation. The 7th edition of this course took place throughout the week of October 31, 2022, in collaboration with the Fondation Lombard Odier.

IC Tenure Track Assistant Professor Carmela Troncoso has won this year’s EPFL Latsis University Prize. She has been recognized by the Latsis Foundation for exceptionally important contributions at a Swiss university by researchers under the age of 40.

The challenges faced by humanitarian organizations in general and by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in particular are immense. Therefore, EPFL and ETH Zurich are joining forces with the ICRC through the Engineering for Humanitarian Action initiative to explore innovative solutions to such crises.

Call for Applications (CfA): Become a Digital Trust Policy Fellow at C4DT and write cutting-edge, technology-grounded policy papers on current technological challenges in the area of digital trust! Check out our program website for more information. Deadline is November 1, 2022.

Already involved with EPFL, especially with the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), the Mobility lab Sion Valais, the EPFL FORUM, the Applied Machine Learning Days and the supervision of master's degree internships, the Swiss Post is seeking to accelerate the start of collaborations with the entire EPFL ecosystem by joining…

C4DT affiliated Professor James Larus, Director of the Very Large Scale Computing Laboratory has been appointed Editor-In-Chief of Communications of the ACM, widely regarded as the leading print and online publication for the computing and information technology fields.

In response to the COVID-19 disease that has stormed the world since early 2020, many countries launched initiatives seeking to help contact tracing by leveraging the mobile devices people carry with them. The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) commissioned the effort for Switzerland, which resulted in the official SwissCovid…

Just 12-months after it was created, in December 2004, 1-million people were active on Facebook. As of December 2021 it had an average 1.93 billion daily active users. EPFL is in a unique collaboration with its parent company Meta around distributed deep learning research.

DuoKey receives the Digital Award for Start-up of the Year 2022 ! During the Spring Party organized by the ICTjournal , our Swiss startup, active in the field of cybersecurity, was elected Swiss cyber start-up of the year 2022 by a jury of the CIOs member

To promote research and education in cyber-defence, the EPFL and the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.” The fifth call for applications is now open with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications, and with a deadline of 14…