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• The Brain According to Henry Markram (Video)

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 574
  Henry Markrams model of a brain is built one neuron at a time. Once you start building a brain in a box you get two things: admission into the Mad Scientists’ Club, and a chance to speak at TED. Henry Markram is the director of the Blue Brain Project , a collaboration between European scientists and IBM that ...
  3 days ago

• Expanding girls’ horizons: workshops bid to make science sexy

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  Students regularly visit EPFL in Lausanne, but more boys than girls opt to go Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Only 15 percent of women in Switzerland are active in information technology, and only five percent of Swiss engineers are women. This brainpower deficit is addressed in Geneva for the first time by a ...
  4 days ago

• Venture ideas

  
  Start-Up: the book — Authority: 103
  I usually do not mention my activity at EPFL in this blog, but here is an exception. This week, I organized with venturelab the 10th edition of ventureideas, a conference where we invite entrepreneurs to share their experience. All the venture ideas @ EPFL can be found with the link on the name. This week ...
  1 week ago

• Give Me More: Augmented Reality from EPFL+ECAL Lab

  
  barry threw — Authority: 117
  At swissnex next Thursday, the Swiss EPFL+ECAL Lab presents several augmented reality works. The EPFL+ECAL Lab is a new unit of the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in cooperation with ECAL (University of art and design Lausanne). Its mission is to foster innovation at a crossroads between ...
  1 week ago

• Robot Grasshopper Gets Self-Righting System

  
  BotJunkie — Authority: 659
  Remember that jumping grasshopper robot from May of last year? It still hasn’t quite figured out how to fly , but it can now make more than one autonomous jump in a row, thanks to a primitive simple but effective self-righting system. It’s the same type of thing we saw on the WeebleCopter : a spherical ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Latest from Boing Boing

  
  Surfnshare: Wacky — Authority: 150
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  3 weeks ago

• AirBurr MAV Combines Helicopter And Airplane

  
  BotJunkie — Authority: 659
  I can’t find much in the way of additional information on this, but it’s a prototype of a micro air vehicle called AirBurr, and it comes from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL. The version in this video is a remote controlled prototype, but the design is intended to be autonomous, with robust collision ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arrested ‘Big Bang’ scientist not a terrorist, claims brother

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, October 14 (ANI): The brother of the Large Hadron Collider physicist under investigation for having possible links to terrorism has said that the charges are “completely false” and his brother is innocent. On October 13, French authorities placed Adlene Hicheur, a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cern worker indicted in France

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The man suspected of aiding terrorism who was arrested by French police 8 October was charged in Paris Monday 12 October and it appears likely he will remain in detention. Internet surveillance of terrorist groups led investigators to e-mail exchanges the 32-year-old man had with ...
  4 weeks ago

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