EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 1hConfluence @ EPFL: from Odersky's "end of programming?" keynote to delegating authority to misaligned agents, reasoning in brains vs machines, learning in markets and contract sequencing. Two tracks, many fields, one workshop. 👉 confluence2026.epfl.ch #IC #Confluence@EPFL #AI 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 3hToday, we are at a keynote called "The end of programming?" by Martin Odersky. It tackles the safety risks of autonomous code generation and how type systems must evolve to contain AI agents. If AI writes the software, what role do humans play, and what keeps systems safe? #EPFL #IC #Programming 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 7hLast Saturday, we celebrated more than 300 new IC graduates at the Magistrale ceremony! It was a day filled with joy, gratitude, and lots of unforgettable moments. Congratulations to all graduates and we wish you the best of luck for your next adventures! #EPFL #Graduation #Magistrale #IC 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📣 Open call: propose a research programme at the Bernoulli Center for 2028 in #mathematics, #theoreticalphysics or #theoreticalcomputerscience. Programmes last 2 to 9 weeks. Deadline: 31 March 2027. 👉 bernoulli.epfl.ch/bernoulli-pr... #EPFL #icepfl #BernoulliCenter 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🏆 Inspiring the next generation of software engineers Congratulations to IC professor Clément Pit-Claudel, winner of the 2026 EPFL Award for Best Teaching! His hands-on approach helps students build useful programs and the skills to trust their code. 🔗 Read more : actu.epfl.ch/news/superpo... 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Today’s the day! 🎓✨ Wishing the very best to all the IC students taking the stage at today's Magistrale. Time to celebrate your master’s degrees and everything you've achieved! Congratulations! 🎉 #EPFL #IC #Magistrale #Graduation 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026👏 15 women from EPFL, including six from IC, feature in Switzerland’s 2026 Top 100+ Women in AI, Data & Robotics report. Their work spans machine learning, robotics, health and education, shaping AI across disciplines. 🔗 Read the full story: news.epfl.ch/news/15-wome... 040
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today, we are at the IC Colloquium about OpAMP: Approximate Message Passing with Time-Varying Linear Operators. It's about a framework called OpAMP, that upgrades classic iterative algorithms to work across distributed networks, even when slow servers drop parts of the calculation. #EPFL #IC #OpAMP 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From code to creative connections 🎨 Computer science student Arthur Prahin designed the new EPFL SHS brochure’s visual identity, inspired by subway maps and the campus outline. Read the full story : news.epfl.ch/news/from-co... 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Quantum 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... 011
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 26/09/202689% 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... 020
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today, 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 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026AI 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-... 010
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... 020
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Week 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 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Your 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! 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Today, 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 000
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! ❤️ 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Last 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 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Welcome (back) to campus! ✨ Wishing our entire IC community a great start and a semester full of learning, sharing and new experiences! 💻✨ 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a great opportunity to connect with the speakers, collaborate across disciplines and contribute real solutions alongside major international partners. More information 👉 peacetech.chpeacetech.chPeaceTech HackathonPeaceTech Hackathon — mobilising science and technology for peace. Organized by the EPFL EssentialTech Centre. 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The 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. 110
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today, 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 000
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... 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The 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 000
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... 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The 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! 💻✨ 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026EPFL 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... 021
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Back 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 010
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... 000
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...actu.epfl.chHow attackers persuade AI agents to break the rulesAs 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. 010
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... 000
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 083
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026New 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 011
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026EPFL’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-... 020
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... 020
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Congratulations 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... 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Can 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... 010
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 021
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Les 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 👈 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Do 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... 011
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The campus is a little quieter these days... #SilentSunday #Lausanne 020
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/... 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026What 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... 010
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The talk also explored how conversational AI agents can support self-awareness and psychological well-being through music listening. Prof. Li Chen highlighted music-based reminiscence, where songs help people recall, reflect on, and better understand past experiences and emotions. 😁⚡️ 000
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026🎵 Recommendation systems shouldn't just reinforce what we already like. they should also help us discover something new. The professor explains their approach of critiquing-based conversations: progressively recommending familiar content before introducing more diverse options over time. 🎧🔥 100
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Can music recommender systems become tools for self-awareness and well-being? 🎶 Join us for a fascinating AI for Health talk by Professor Li Chen. 100
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026#SilentSunday #Lausanne 031
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026#EPFL #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #ComputerVision #AIResearch 050
EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Congratulations to Nicolas Flammarion on his appointment as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Communication Systems. His work advances the theoretical and practical foundations of machine learning and AI, with a focus on building more efficient, secure, and reliable AI language models. 161