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A Major Car Manufacturer Comes to EPFL

Published:04.11.11 — PSA Peugeot Citroën is announcing its arrival on the campus of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The French automaker will be the eleventh major company to move into business-oriented Innovation Square since the space opened in August 2010.

200-meter-long bridges without expansion joints: is it possible?

Published:02.11.11 — Expansion joints are a nightmare in the maintenance of highway bridges. After a few decades, the junction points between the structure and the road begin to show signs of deterioration. Scientists at EPFL are attempting to do away with this costly technique, and have set up a life-size experiment on the campus.

Image processing: the human (still) beats the machine

Published:31.10.11 — A novel experiment conducted by researchers at Idiap Research Institute and Johns Hopkins University lead by an EPFL teacher highlights some of the limitations of automatic image analysis systems. Their results were recently published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Faster fill-ups for compressed air cars

Published:28.10.11 — As part of a partnership with a French company that develops compressed air vehicles, EPFL scientists have solved the main drawback of this technology: vehicle recharge time. They have developed a prototype for a quick-stop recharge station that can fill up a tank in less than three minutes.

EPFL and Harvard unveil a joint program in translational neuroscience

Published:25.10.11 — Harvard Medical School and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Launch Joint Program to Improve Quality of Life for People With Neurological Disabilities

Use your own computer to tame protons at CERN!

Published:24.10.11 — Help to unravel the mysteries of the Universe! With the SixTrack project developed by EPFL, your computer can provide CERN with additional computing power.

Tiny new tool to track heart rate in real time on a smartphone

Published:19.10.11 — Thanks to an invention from two EPFL laboratories, patients and their doctors can now immediately be made aware of heart rate anomalies and can thus quickly take any necessary medical measures. The device is very small, non-invasive and equipped with long-lasting batteries.