Digital privacy has become a top social concern for the expanding digital world. Societies are trying to define and navigate the future of digital privacy and determine technological solutions, new policies, and frameworks needed to protect individuals while maintaining support for digital services. There are several broad areas where the landscape is undefined, where policies still need to be developed, and where IEEE expertise may greatly impact the future of “privacy” on-line. The Digital Privacy Project is exploring how IEEE can best add to this discussion – bringing the perspective of technologists – to help advance solutions to protect personal and private information.
This edition has been written by scientific writer Lionel Pousaz
We will discuss how to bridge the gap in the availability of information relating to cyberattacks on the healthcare sector and how evidence-led accountability is an important contribution to reduce cyberattacks on this critical sector. Panelists will focus on how and whether understanding the scale and scope of attacks can improve decision making and operational and diplomatic initiatives to protect the healthcare sector.
Martin Jaggi, C4DT affiliated Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the School of Computer and Communications Sciences (IC) has won the 2021 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching, for introducing two novel, hands-on science challenges into his Machine Learning Course – the largest masters level class on campus.
Armed conflicts, violence and migration are causing large scale separation of family members, dislocation of family links and missing persons. People must receive help to know what happened to reconnect to their loved ones as rapidly as possible. The ICRC and LSIR through its partnership have set themselves a challenge to analyse publicly available data through analytics techniques to identify missing persons that would arguably not have been identified using current, conventional methods. The goal of this project is to facilitate the search for missing individuals by building scalable, accurate systems tailored for that purpose.
At the C4DT Factory, one of our tasks is to develop demonstrators for research projects. The goal is to provide a quick introduction to a project, and allow visitors to interact and get a feel for the technology.
Tune Insight B2B software enables organizations to make better decisions by collaborating securely on their sensitive data to extract collective insights. Incubated at the EPFL Laboratory for Data Security, with a deployment in Swiss university hospitals and customer-funded projects in the insurance and cybersecurity businesses, Tune Insight will use the funds to accelerate product development, strengthen the team, and onboard more customers.
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The upcoming roundtable discussion on the topic of art-collecting in the digital world is organized by Arcades Digital and supported by Crypto Valley Association and Swissnex in China. Five panelists, including C4DT affiliated Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi, will take their unique point of view on NFTs.
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We are delighted to announce the startups MinWave and Predikon have each been awarded a CH 30k Ignition grant as part of EPFL’s Tech Launchpad – a leading incubator dedicated to supporting groundbreaking and innovative startups.
CLIs are very powerful, from the tip of fingers, you can quickly make the computer do anything you want. No need to wave your mouse around, hoping to find the right sub-sub-sub-menu where the feature you want is implemented. But it comes at a cost: for each command, you need to know how to write (…)
Les sociétés ELCA, Infomaniak ou encore Proton lancent un appel pour la création d’un consortium helvétique pour des services cloud. La décision de la Confédération de choisir des prestataires américains et chinois est vivement critiquée. More: https://www.letemps.ch/economie/partisans-dun-cloud-suisse-contreattaquent-ciblent-conseil-federal
I found this nice twitter thread from Vitalik Buterin, the inventor of the Ethereum blockchain: Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the 268 people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related. — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 1, 2021 (…)
NaCl is one of the most used cryptography library around, and it is understandable: it is easy to use (it hides the crypto-magic used), portable (via the libsodium fork), and available in many languages. It is used by one of the project we are helping, drop, written in Rust, which we want to partially run (…)
Concurrent programming is one the oldest and hardest issues in the Computer Science Book. For years, we have been using locks, big threads sharing the minimum, using optimistic reasoning for “how data will be updated”. And we are still stuck with the same issues of some part of the code “failing” to use the updated object, dead and soft locks with hard-to-see origins, and many many crashes.
The article Why Blockchain Is Not Yet Working goes over six points – for most of these points, research papers exist. For some of them test networks exist. Only one or two are solved in active main networks.
This conference will take place on October 15th, 9:00-17:00, at the Maison de la Paix of the Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID). It will address a number of key questions: How does a lack of digital trust manifest itself today? Is this justified, based on current privacy and security issues, or is it exaggerated? Understated? What lessons can be learned from other sectors on how to build the trust that will be needed for our digital future. What is possible in the digital future, and what will be lost without digital trust? And finally, how should that digital trust be built?
The event is jointly organised by IHEID’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) and EPFL’s Center for Digital Trust (C4DT).
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To date the Pharma industry has not leveraged the wealth healthcare data volumes to deliver truly personalized care for patients.
On Monday 23rd of August the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) hosts the AI & Pharma track, consisting of 4 sessions:
(i) methodological innovations in data science, ML and AI;
(ii) applications / use cases;
(iii) data sharing, ethics and privacy;
(iv) panel discussion on the adoption of AI in Pharma – solving the data Conundrum.
This track is co-organised by the Roche, Novartis and C4DT.
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Digital Twin technologies are gaining momentum in research and applications in health and industry on an international scale. EPFL and its partners are active in the development of related core technologies and their integrations, for instance via the CIS Research Pillars and DIGIPREDICT.
To promote research and education in cyber-defence, EPFL and the Cyber-Defence Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.” The fourth call for proposals is now open with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications, and with a deadline of 16 August 2021 for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications. CYD fellows are hosted by a higher education institution in Switzerland and conduct their research at the CYD Campus located on the premises of EPFL and ETHZ and in its office in Thun. For more details visit the program’s dedicated website by clicking the link below or join the online Applicant Workshop on 5 August 2021 from 10.00 to 10.45 CEST (for more information please contact research@epfl.ch).
C4DT affiliated Associate Professor Katerina Argyraki works on computer networks and neutrality, a notion she believes is critical to ensuring that the internet continues to foster competition and innovation.
Trust in Innovation is a 100% digital event that will take place on June 16th , 2021. It targets SMEs wanting to understand and adopt new technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing. It promises no sales speech but pedagogy and ROI. The key themes treated during the event are traceability, compliance, healthcare and tokenisation.
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C4DT-affiliated Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi participated on May 31st at the congress WXRShow in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, to discuss the future of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The event was covered by Swiss bi-weekly newspaper Agefi. Click below to view the article in French.
Women in Cyber is specifically targeted towards women in security. It will be held virtually on June 10th and will be made up of a number of presentations from women across Switzerland who work in this field, from NCSC, SWITCH, Deloitte, Kudelski Security, ETH, Microsoft, Swiss Re, UBS and Trend Micro. It will close with an address from our Federal Councilor and Head of the Department of Defense, Viola Amherd.
Every year, they bring together business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, advocates, technologists, academics, government representatives, and journalists from around the world to tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Join RightsCon for their 10th anniversary event online from Monday, June 7 to Friday, June 11, 2021.
