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Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

Privacy-preserving distributed collaborative filtering

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey

We propose a new mechanism to preserve privacy while leveraging user profiles in distributed recommender systems. Our mechanism relies on two contributions: (i) an original obfuscation scheme, and (ii) a randomized dissemination protocol. We show that our ...

Springer Wien2016

Internet, espace et société. Changer l’espace, changer la société

Boris Beaude

Avec Internet, l’espace a tant changé que la société est animée d’un mouvement dont la dynamique est peu lisible, car peu familière. Nier la réalité et la spatialité d’Internet expose à la déréalisation de nombre d’actions qui contribuent remarquablement à ...

2015

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Collaborative Filtering

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey

We propose a new mechanism to preserve privacy while leveraging user profiles in distributed recommender systems. Our mechanism relies on (i) an original obfuscation scheme to hide the exact profiles of users without significantly decreasing their utility, ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Le local à l'épreuve d'Internet

Boris Beaude

Internet incarne parfaitement la mondialisation. Puissante technique spatiale, Internet oeuvre en effet à rendre la distance non pertinente à l’échelle du Monde. Cette capacité de synchorisation sur de vastes étendues questionne les échelles intermédiaires ...

2013

Logiques de synchorisation, lieux réticulaires et lieux de savoir

Boris Beaude

Du point de vue des savoirs, Internet est peut-être ce que pouvait être une «ville phare» telle qu’Alexandrie, Bagdad, Paris ou Rome. Ces villes furent autant de lieux qui incarnaient différentes expériences historiques des savoirs, chacune étant emblémati ...

2013

Ad-blocking Games: Monetizing Online Content Under the Threat of Ad Avoidance

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Nevena Vratonjic, Jens Grossklags

Much of the Internet economy relies on online advertising for monetizing digital content: Users are expected to accept the presence of online advertisements in exchange for content being free. However, online advertisements have become a serious problem fo ...

2012

Initiatives in crystallographic education

Gervais Chapuis

The rapid development of the Internet has created new opportunities for teaching in general and it is our aim to show how the current evolution can best be exploited for crystallography education in particular. Currently, we can find a very large selection ...

2011

Enhancement of Geomatics Education by Using Internet Based Techniques

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Arnaud Deshogues

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has introduced the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) in 2005. Since then, the number of teachers and users has increased rapidly. With more than 350 active courses hosted on Moodle for this ...

2010