Swiss Joint Research Center

February 28, 2022

A new global study by researchers from EPFL, the University of Fribourg, and Microsoft Research has found there was an overall surge in high calorie foods such as pastries, bread and pies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

October 20, 2021

EPFL and Microsoft Research scientists demonstrated ultrafast optical circuit switching using a chip-based soliton comb laser and a completely passive diffraction grating device. This particular architecture could enable an energy-efficient optical datacenter to meet enormous data bandwidth requirements in future.

June 1, 2021

Mixed Reality kombiniert die physische Welt mit digitalen Objekten und wird im Geschäftsumfeld für Wartungsarbeiten und Bildung eingesetzt. Marktforscher sagen der Technologie eine grosse Karriere vorher. «In etwa 10 Jahren werden Mixed-Reality-Brillen die handelsüblichen Smartphones ersetzen», erklärt auch ETH-Professor Marc…

February 1, 2020

Die intelligente Brille werde irgendwann das Smartphone ablösen, sagt Marc Pollefeys. Der Professor für Computer-Vision arbeitet mit Hochdruck daran.

February 1, 2020

Computer Quantentechnologie soll die IT revolutionieren. Die Versprechungen sind riesig, die Probleme ebenfalls.

October 3, 2019

In the first week of October, the eyes of the European computer vision community were on Zurich where Microsoft launched the Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab. The Lab is led by Professor Marc Pollefeys who has a joint appointment…

September 26, 2019

Today, with the launch of the CyberPeace Institute, the world will gain an important new ally in understanding the impact of cyberattacks, in working to develop rules for proper conduct in cyberspace and in helping the most vulnerable victims of…