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Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

FLIIMP : a community software for the processing, calibration, and reporting of liquid water isotope measurements on cavity-ring down spectrometers

Sonja Wahl

Precise and accurate measurements of the stable isotope composition from precipitation, land ice, runoff, and oceans provide critical information on Earth's water cycle. The analysis, post-processing, and calibration of raw analytical signals from laser sp ...

2023

Open-Source Software Adoption in Academic Libraries: An Inevitable Path Forward

Francesco Varrato

Academic libraries are dynamic entities, constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of students, researchers, professors, and the broader academic community. As a Research Data Management Specialist at EPFL and ex researcher, I have observed the transf ...

2023

High-precision optical magnetometry using Nitrogen Vacancies in CVD diamond

Hossein Babashah

Sensing weak magnetic fields is a topic of great importance in basic science and technology due to its wide range of applications. In this context, solid-state and nanoscale quantum sensors are poised to revolutionize the sensing platforms due to their ult ...

EPFL2023

Sketches

Pier Vittorio Aureli

I draw by hand, but I don’t like free-hand sketching. Of course, when designing, it is inevitable to make sketches, especially when collaborating with someone. A quick sketch remains the most efficient way to communicate to others early ideas or observatio ...

2023

"Immigration, Innovation, and Knowledge Diffusion"

Gabriele Cristelli

This dissertation studies the relationship between immigration and innovation. It adopts an empirical perspective and focuses on Switzerland, combining the use of patent data and immigration administrative records. The first essay is based on a novel datab ...

EPFL2021

Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland

Francesco Lissoni, Gabriele Cristelli

We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP), signed by Switzerland and the EU in 1999. Using geocoded patent data, complemented by matched inventor-immigrant-census records, we identify a large number of cross-bo ...

2020

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

FOSS EKV2.6 Verilog-A Compact MOSFET Model

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Eric Vittoz, François Krummenacher, Matthias Bucher, Christophe Lallement

The EKV2.6 MOSFET compact model has had a considerable impact on the academic and industrial community of analog integrated circuit design, since its inception in 1996. The model is available as a free open-source software (FOSS) tool coded in Verilog-A. T ...

IEEE2019

Open Source Is A-Changin': How Qualitative Research Can Help Us Adapt

In the past five years, industry has overwhelmingly turned to open source as a primary means to build products and services atop of, with around 80% of surveyed companies acknowledging that they run on open source. 66% of companies say they would first c ...

2018

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