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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quantum computing is still out of reach for many students ⚛️ With Schiiq, EPFL students are developing an affordable, open-source tabletop quantum computer to bring hands-on quantum education to classrooms in Switzerland and beyond. 🔗 Read the full story: actu.epfl.ch/news/new-mak...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

89% of EPFL students surveyed use AI. But when does it help us learn, and when does it do the thinking for us? 🤖 Explore the perspectives of students, teachers and learning experts in the full article and interactive report: news.epfl.ch/news/ai-take...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, we are at the IC Colloquium by Pavle Subotic about Abstract Interpretation on irregular programming environments. This talk explores how static analysis and abstract interpretation can bring software engineering rigor to real-world data workflows. #EPFL #IC #StaticAnalysis

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is helping experts find software vulnerabilities faster but it also makes scams more convincing. EPFL professor Mathias Payer explains how updates, backups and strong passwords help protect your digital life. Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/simple-...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🇨🇭Open AI meets everyday use: Apertus 1.5, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and partners, is joining Proton’s Lumo assistant. Users can opt in to share anonymised feedback, helping researchers improve the model and advance open, sovereign AI. 🔗 Read the full story : actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Week 1 - Successfully compiled with 0 errors🧑‍💻 From reconnecting with your friends to setting up your IDEs, the first week back at EPFL has officially been successful ✅ How many squares can you check off?👇 #EPFL #IC #BackToSchool

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your school is also on Mastodon! 🦣 Do you want to try an open-source and decentralized social network, with a true chronological feed and not an algorithmic one? Then join us on EPFL's instance of Mastodon! ⭐ Create your account on social.epfl.ch (or another instance) and follow us there!

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today, we were at the IC Colloquium by Lav Varshney on Information Lattice Learning. A very interesting talk about teaching AI to find human understandable rules behind the data and not just predicting. #EPFL #IC #InformationLatticeLearning

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎥 Here’s a look back at the Welcome Day and the very beginning of our new students’ EPFL journey! New to IC? Follow us for the latest research news, events, quizzes and fun community activities. We hope you’re enjoying these first weeks of discovery and being part of the IC community! ❤️

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last Friday was the Welcome Day at EPFL! 🎓✨ New students were welcomed by EPFL President Anna Fontcuberta i Morral before getting their first taste of EPFL life: discovering the campus, meeting fellow students and enjoying activities with the Coaching 🌻 #ComputerScience #WelcomeDay #EPFL

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Welcome (back) to campus! ✨ Wishing our entire IC community a great start and a semester full of learning, sharing and new experiences! 💻✨

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The PeaceTech Hackathon is back at EPFL on September 26–27 2026 and open to all students! You're also invited to the Opening Ceremony on September 22, dedicated to Misinformation, Disinformation and Hate Speech, ahead of the hackathon itself with challenges posed by UNICEF, the Red Cross and others.

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today, we are following the talk by Phillip Stanley-Marbell, founder & CEO of Signaloid, on "Fast Arithmetic on Compressed Representations of Continuous Probability Distributions." #EPFL #ComputerArchitecture #ProbabilisticComputing

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🎓 Research is only one part of the PhD journey EPFL IC PhD candidate Shardul Chiplunkar shares how community, student representation and interests beyond academia help him navigate stress and contribute to change at EPFL. 🔗 Read the Mind to Mind interview: actu.epfl.ch/news/represe...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Turing Course 2026/27 edition kicked off last Saturday with an opening session in BC 420, followed by a welcome apéritif. A warm welcome to this new group of passionate students! Learn more: theory.epfl.ch/CoursTuring/ #CoursTuring #ComputerScience #Informatique #IA #Education

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌐 Apertus is powering new open-source AI applications. Current AI has launched Alpha Chat, an experimental chatbot built on Apertus, the fully open language model developed by EPFL, ETH Zürich & CSCS. 🔗 Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The calm before the buzz returns 📚 In just 2 weeks, these empty tables will be full of laptops, lively conversations, group projects and last-minute debugging sessions. Welcome back, IC community! We can't wait to see you back on campus! 💻✨

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

EPFL has built its own open-source AI platform, running entirely on campus infrastructure 🤖 With 130+ open models, it gives the EPFL community secure access to AI tools while keeping data and control in-house 🇨🇭 Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/soverei...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Back to school is just around the corner… are you ready? 👀 From taking way too much credits to promising yourself this semester will be different (again), the pre-semester rituals have officially begun 😌 How many squares can you already check off? #EPFL #BackToSchool #CampusLife #StudentLife #IC

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🏆 Congratulations to EPFL researchers Carmela Troncoso and Christian Knabenhans on winning the 2026 Internet Defense Prize! Their work brings end-to-end encryption to collaborative documents, enabling secure collaboration without compromising usability. 🔗 Read more: news.epfl.ch/news/ic-rese...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🤖 What if an AI agent refuses a harmful request… but can still be persuaded step by step? Researchers from our NLP Laboratory developed an automated testing framework that simulates how attackers might manipulate AI agents into carrying out harmful tasks. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/how-att...

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How attackers persuade AI agents to break the rules

As AI assistants evolve into AI agents, a new EPFL study has found that the biggest safety risks in their use may not come from single malicious prompts, but from carefully orchestrated conversations.

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🧬 EPFL researchers have developed VirTues, an AI foundation model that analyzes tumor tissues across patients and cancer types to uncover patterns linked to disease progression and treatment response, paving the way for more personalized cancer care. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/ai-mode...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🚀 EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have released Apertus 1.5, one of the world's largest fully open LLMs. Now multimodal, Apertus offers improved reasoning, instruction following and tool use for more capable and transparent AI. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus... #EPFL #AI #OpenSource

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New internship? We've got you covered 🎉 Whether you've already found your favorite colleague or you're still introducing yourself to everyone you meet, this IC Bingo is for you! How many squares can you check off? 👀 #EPFL #Bingo #Internship #StudentLife

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

EPFL’s Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory has teamed with the United Nations International Computing Centre to deliver a practical evaluation framework to assess the safety and reliability of AI systems. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/ic-lab-...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Ola Svensson who has been promoted by the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology to Full Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, recognising his outstanding work in algorithms and theory of computing. Read more 👉 news.epfl.ch/news/appoint...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Congratulations to Charlotte Bunne on receiving the 2026 Lopez-Loreta Prize for Virtual Patient Labs, an AI project creating virtual patient models helping clinicians simulate disease progression, evaluate treatment options and advance personalized cancer care Read more actu.epfl.ch/news/charlot...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Can AI be less of a black box? 🧠 EPFL researchers have developed MiCRo (Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners), a brain-inspired LLM who uses 4 specialized modules for language, logic, social reasoning, and world knowledge, making its reasoning more transparent. Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-re...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

✨MeditronFO is the first fully open framework for building medical large language models, to make AI in healthcare more transparent and accountable. 🔗 Read more 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-la... #AI #Data #health #medicine #Research

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Les pré-inscriptions pour le Cours Turing 2026/27 sont ouvertes jusqu’au 30 juin. La récente cérémonie de remise des certificats de l’édition 2025/26 a marqué l’aboutissement d’une année riche en apprentissages et en projets pour nos élèves. Inscrivez-vous ici theory.epfl.ch/CoursTuring 👈

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Do AI systems learn the same view of the world? Two years ago, MIT researchers proposed that as AI models become more powerful, they begin to see the world in the same way. But EPFL scientists now show the picture is more nuanced. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/do-ai-s...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🧬 Could virtual cells become a new tool for scientific discovery? Prof. Charlotte Bunne (EPFL) and Dr. Aviv Regev (Genentech) explore how AI and single-cell biology are converging to create models that can simulate cellular behavior and guide discovery. Read more: www.amacad.org/publication/...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What if AI could help restore meaningful vision to blind people? New EPFL research, led by Johannes Mehrer and Prof. Martin Schrimpf, is developing AI models that could one day enable visual prosthetics able to restore object-level sight for the blind. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-brin...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can music recommender systems become tools for self-awareness and well-being? 🪉🎶 Join us for a fascinating AI for Health talk by Professor Li Chen.

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced new faculty appointments at EPFL, including two within our IC School that we are proud to share with you.

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In a prestigious appointment, the former President of EPFL and IC Professor Martin Vetterli has been nominated as Chair of the European Research Council (ERC) Identification Committee. 👉 Read more : actu.epfl.ch/news/martin-vetterli-appointed-to-lead-high-level-europ/

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Happening now at the IC Colloquium 👀 Prof. Miryung Kim from UCLA discussing the future of testing AI systems, ML compilers, and fuzzing techniques ⚙️🧠

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

IC and STI had the pleasure of hosting the Honorary Lecture of Professor Giovanni De Micheli, bringing together his former students, researchers and faculty members, to celebrate his pioneering research and academic excellence. Thank you Nanni, for everything you have given throughout your career.⚡️

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

💫 Follow us on social media! 💫 👉 You can now find us on 🌐 Mastodon (@icepfl@social.epfl.ch) 🌐 BlueSky (@icepfl.bsky.social) 📸 Instagram (@icepfl) 💼 LinkedIn (@icepfl) Each platform has its own style… it’s up to you to choose (or follow them all)! Follow us everywhere so you don’t miss anything!

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let's take a look back at this year's LakeCTF ! 🌊🚩 From intense challenges to unforgettable moments with the community, this edition of LakeCTF was an incredible experience. 🚀 Check out the aftermovie below and relive the highlights! 👇 youtu.be/WgdlNiBBp8c #LakeCTF #CyberSecurity #CTF #Hackathon

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LakeCTF 2026 Aftermovie

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚀 pls carry :3 wins prestigious EPFL cybersecurity competition LakeCTF The fourth edition of Lake CTF brought ten teams to EPFL to take part in a jeopardy-style security hacking contest – with no LLMs allowed. Check it out 👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/pls-car...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

💥 Our LakeCTF challenge authors are preparing some interesting challenges for the finalists, and we’re working hard to playtest them all. We can’t wait to see our guests tackle what we’ve cooked up! Let's go! 🤘🏽 #CTF #EPFL #cybersecurity

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🚀 EPFL researchers successfully mimic dyslexia in an AI brain ! For the first time researchers have used an advanced AI model that understands both images and language allowing them to model dyslexia, paving the way for potential new treatments. 👉 Read more : actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-re...

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Last Thursday, CLIC organized the IC Faculty Dinner in the BC Hall 🌷 This year was extra special as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the event 🥳 From the aperitif to the dinner, along with games, karaoke, and many shared moments, the evening brought together students and faculty members 🫶

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A little look back at last week's Easter break for the students organized by CLIC and the IC-COM team! 🍩✨ Good luck for the rest of the semester! ❤️💙 #Easter #Break #Spring

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