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Planetary-Scale Byzantine Fault Tolerance
The scale and pervasiveness of the Internet make it a pillar of planetary communication, industry and economy, as well as a fundamental medium for public discourse and democratic engagement. In stark contrast with the Internet's decentralized infrastructur ...
EPFL20242XTWEETSXMODEMSXTXTXTWEET (2X): Combining Media archeology and electronic literature to support societal change through design
Through the case study of the 2XTWEETSXMODEMSXTXTXTWEET (abbreviated 2X), this contribution will situate the potential of using Twitter’s publically available data streams as inputs for the creation of media archeological (Hertz and Parikka, 2012) textual ...
2023Graasp Desktop: Supporting Digital Education in Underconnected Schools in Africa
Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Kim Lan Phan Hoang, Hagop Taminian
Over the past three years, the Go-Lab Goes Africa (GO-GA) initiative has focused on promoting and implementing digital education in Africa. GO-GA is a Horizon 2020 innovation action supported by the European Commission. One of the outcomes of this initiati ...
2021On Smart-Buildings and their Integration into the Smart-Grid
Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem
Today's electrical grid is undergoing deep changes, resulting from the large integration of distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in an effort to decarbonize the generation of electrical energy. In addition to the emergence of this volatile electricit ...
EPFL2020Perspectives to Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in Mathematical Learning Difficulties
Technology has entered education quickly. In developed countries children and teachers have access to hundreds of thousands of learning applications and games. However, the digital divide is significant: some parts of the world still lack the basic require ...
Springer International Publishing2018Towards 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 ...
ACM2017Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles
Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin
IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...
International Risk Governance Center2017HyRec: leveraging browsers for scalable recommenders
Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Davide Frey, Rhicheek Patra
The ever-growing amount of data available on the Internet calls for personalization. Yet, the most effective personalization schemes, such as those based on collaborative filtering (CF), are notoriously resource greedy. This paper presents HyRec, an online ...
ACM2014A Practical Hand-on Guide for Deploying a Large-scale Wireless Multi-hop Network
Julien Pierre Sacha Herzen, Adel Aziz
The knowledge of how to exactly deploy a wireless multi-hop network can be of interest for both researchers and engineers. Engineers may be interested in the possibility of extending the coverage area of their traditional access point and to provide ubiqui ...
2010Scalable Network-layer Defense Against Internet Bandwidth-Flooding Attacks
In a bandwidth-flooding attack, compromised sources send high-volume traffic to the target with the purpose of causing congestion in its tail circuit and disrupting its legitimate communications. In this paper, we present Active Internet Traffic Filtering ...
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