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The Inaugural Chief Data Officer & Information Quality European Symposium

In 2022, the #MITCDOIQ will bring the globally renowned Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Symposium (CDOIQ) hosted at MIT to Europe for the first time, in cooperation with the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (University of Lausanne – UNIL) and the Swiss Data Science Center (ETH Zurich & EPFL). The CDOIQ Symposium has established itself as one of the most important data events to exchange innovative ideas, best practices and to promote the adoption of the CDO role.

AI & Ethics test

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From Zürich to Dubai: Urban Digital Mobility

For the Travel & Connectivity Week at Expo 2020, the Swiss Pavilion is going to look at the mobility sector from the eyes of digitalisation. Matthias Finger, C4DT affiliated Professor, will be moderating the event.

AI & Ethics Workshop (by invitation only)

This C4DT partner workshop will take place online and is by invitation only.
For all C4DT partners: Please send us an email if you are interested in participating. This workshop is limited to 20 participants. We still have few “screens” open.

AI & Ethics Week

Artificial Intelligence holds great promise for the economy and society. It has also led to the explosion of new ethical challenges, such as biased decision making, filter bubbles, data protection, face recognition, deep fakes and cyber security.
During this week we aim to create awareness of the ethical and privacy dilemmas with AI, explored from 4 different angles – business impact, cultural, technological and regulatory.
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Auditable Sharing and Management of Sensitive Data Across Jurisdictions

This work aims at creating a Proof of Concept of storing and managing data on a blockchain. This work answers the following two use-cases: (i) compliant storage, transfer and access management of (personal) sensitive data and (ii) compliant cross-border or cross-jurisdiction data sharing.

DEDIS brings to the table a permissioned blockchain and distributed ledger using a fast catch up mechanism that allows for very fast processing of the requests, while staying secure. It also includes a novel approach to encryption and decryption, where no central point of failure can let the documents be published to outsiders (Calypso). Swiss Re brings to the table interesting use cases which will require DEDIS to extend Calypso to implement data location policies.

Analysis of encryption techniques in ACARS communications

In this collaboration (structured in two projects) we develop an automated tool to flag messages sent by planes which are suspicious of using weak encryption mechanisms. We mainly focus on detecting the use of classical ciphers like substitution and transposition ciphers. The tool flags messages and identifies the family of ciphers. We also aim to develop automated decryption techniques for the weakest ciphers.

PriBAD: Private Biometrics for Aid Distribution

In this project, we work on providing a privacy-preserving biometric solution for humanitarian aid distribution. The project seeks to understand the requirements of aid distribution in emergency situation and design a solution that enables the use of biometrics without endangering the beneficiaries that need access to aid.

What If….? Pandemic Policy Decision Support System

After 18 months of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still no agreement on the optimal combination of mitigation strategies. The efficacy and collateral damage of pandemic policies are dependent on constantly evolving viral epidemiology as well as the volatile distribution of socioeconomic and cultural factors. This study proposes a data-driven approach to quantify the efficacy of the type, duration, and stringency of COVID-19 mitigation policies in terms of transmission control and economic loss, personalised to individual countries.

TTL-MSR Taiming Tail-Latency for Microsecond-scale RPCs

We consider a web-scale application within a datacenter that comprises of hundreds of software components, deployed on thousands of servers. These versatile components communicate with each other via Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) with the cost of an individual RPC service typically measured in microseconds. The end-user performance, availability and overall efficiency of the entire system are largely dependent on the efficient delivery and scheduling of these RPCs. We propose to make RPC first-class citizens of datacenter deployment. This requires a revisitation of the overall architecture, application API, and network protocols. We are also building the tools that are necessary to scientifically evaluate microsesecond-scale services.

A cryptography game-changer for biomedical research at scale

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Personalized medicine is set to revolutionize healthcare, yet large-scale research studies towards better diagnoses and targeted therapies are currently hampered by data privacy and security concerns. New global collaborative research has developed a solution to these challenges, described in Nature Communications.

International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC) 2021

The health and well-being of our visitors, partners, employees and suppliers are at the heart of our concerns. Faced with a very changing situation, the FIC organisation team is fully mobilized, in constant contact with the competent authorities and all the people involved, to welcome you all in the best possible sanitary conditions. In this (…)

RegHorizon’s 2nd AI Policy Conference

RegHorizon and ETH Zurich’s Center for Law and Economics have partnered since 2019 to create an unbiased platform for a timely multi-stakeholder discussion among policy makers, academia, business and society focusing on challenges that AI technologies pose and exploring relevant policy solutions to address them.

The 2nd AI Policy Conference continues the multi-stakeholder dialogue started last year with leading experts to explore the use of public policy and societal engagement to capture the benefits of artificial intelligence, minimize its risks and enhance its adoption.

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Little Syster: the first privacy trust index for digital services

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Giving back to citizens the control of their private life in the face of digital technology: this is the mission of the French company Little Syster. Launched in 2020, it uses a technology based on artificial intelligence that was developed at the LSIR EPFL laboratory headed by C4DT affiliated Prof. K. Aberer.

Foundations of ICT for Decision Makers

Current digital trends and innovation, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data privacy, blockchain and digital trust, are rapidly changing and disrupting the way donors, employees, and beneficiaries interact with each other. Technology can be a powerful tool for philanthropic and non-profit organizations, accelerating their digital transformation through automating and streamlining business processes, using digital platforms, and leveraging data and analytics in new ways that enhance their efficiency and social impact.

CRITIS 2021 – The 16th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security

Ten years ago CRITIS 2011 was held in Lucerne. On September 27, 28 & 29, 2021, the 16th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2021) will be back in Switzerland and take place at the EPFL SwissTech Convention Center. CRITIS 2021 aims to bring together researchers, professionals from academia, critical (information) infrastructure operators, industry, defence and governmental organizations working in the field of critical infrastructures protection (CIP).