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How Computer Science Risks to Lose its Innocence, and Should Attempt to Take Responsibility

Karl Aberer

Computer science is playing a driving role in transforming today's society through information technology. In this transformation we observe power shifts increasingly strengthening centralised organisations, which are negatively perceived by many people. W ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

Information-based recognition: TED talks and the institutional fabric of valuable innovation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

Information has long been considered a commodity, something that organizations and individuals can trade for financial gain (Chandler, 1993). And, the networks via which information flowed have long had a conflictual relationship with power and control, bu ...

2016

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza, Orlin Biserov Topalov

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

D2P: Distance-Based Differential Privacy in Recommenders

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mahsa Taziki, Rhicheek Patra

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. This information growth calls for recommenders that personalize the in- formation proposed to each individual user. Nevertheless, p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Detecting nanoscale vibrations as signature of life

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Petar Stupar

The existence of life in extreme conditions, in particular in extraterrestrial environments, is certainly one of the most intriguing scientific questions of our time. In this report, we demonstrate the use of an innovative nanoscale motion sensor in life-s ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Memory Systems and Interconnects for Scale-Out Servers

Stavros Volos

The information revolution of the last decade has been fueled by the digitization of almost all human activities through a wide range of Internet services. The backbone of this information age are scale-out datacenters that need to collect, store, and proc ...

EPFL2015

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Gianluca Botter

We combine experimental and modeling results from a headwater catchment at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA, to explore the link between stream solute dynamics and water age. A theoretical framework based on water age dynami ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Image Transmorphing with JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Picture-related applications are extremely popular because pictures present attractive and vivid information. Nowadays, people record everyday life, communicate with each other, and enjoy entertainment using various interesting imaging applications. In man ...

2015

En quête d'habitat : choix résidentiels et différenciation des modes de vie familiaux en Suisse

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

Sandy Ingram

We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

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The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

Sandy Ingram

EPFL2010