Publications related to Laptop

Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

Workflows in AiiDA: Engineering a high-throughput, event-based engine for robust and modular computational workflows

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber

Over the last two decades, the field of computational science has seen a dramatic shift towards incorporating high-throughput computation and big-data analysis as fundamental pillars of the scientific discovery process. This has necessitated the developmen ...

2020

A Comprehensive Experimental and Reproducible Study on Selfie Biometrics in Multistream and Heterogeneous Settings

Sébastien Marcel, Guillaume Heusch, Tiago De Freitas Pereira

This contribution presents a new database to address current challenges in face recognition. It contains face video sequences of 75 individuals acquired either through a laptop webcam or when mimicking the front-facing camera of a smartphone. Sequences hav ...

2019

A real-time optimal inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgery by convex optimization: description of the system and first dosimetry data

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Rémi Charrier

OBJECTIVE The authors developed a new, real-time interactive inverse planning approach, based on a fully convex framework, to be used for Gamma Knife radiosurgery. ...

AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS2018

T-RECS: A Virtual Commissioning Tool for Software-Based Control of Electric Grids – Design, Validation, and Operation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Wajeb Saab, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

In real-time control of electric grids using multiple software agents, the control performance depends on (1) the proper functioning of the software agents, i.e., absence of software faults, and (2) the behavior of software agents in the presence of non-id ...

ACM2018

Near-Infrared Optical Tomography with Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors

Juan Mata Pavia

In the past decades different methods based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) have been developed to image a variety of hemodynamic parameters in tissue. However, simultaneous high resolution imaging of oxy- and deo ...

EPFL2015

Bi-Modal Biometric Authentication on Mobile Phones in Challenging Conditions

Sébastien Marcel, Laurent El Shafey

This paper examines the issue of face, speaker and bi-modal authentication in mobile environments when there is significant condition mismatch. We introduce this mismatch by enrolling client models on high quality biometric samples obtained on a laptop com ...

2014

Assessing computer waste generation in Chile using material flow analysis

Christian Ludwig, Bernhard Steubing

The quantities of e-waste are expected to increase sharply in Chile. The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative data basis on generated e-waste quantities. A material flow analysis was carried out assessing the generation of e-waste from comput ...

2010

PyNEST: a convenient interface to the NEST simulator

Eilif Benjamin Muller, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig

The neural simulation tool NEST (http://www.nest-initiative.org) is a simulator for heterogeneous networks of point neurons or neurons with a small number of compartments. It aims at simulations of large neural systems with more than 10^4 neurons and 10^7 ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2008

A Power-Efficient LVDS Driver Circuit in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology

Seyed Armin Tajalli, Yusuf Leblebici

This article presents a power-efficient and low-voltage CMOS output driver circuit based on low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) standard. To reduce the ringing at the output of the proposed driver circuit and simultaneously keep the power consumption ...

IEEE Service Center2007

Awareness: An Enabling Feature for mediated Interaction in Communities of Practise

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is currently using a Web-based experimentation environment to support laboratory activities in engineering education. The key service for the acceptance of the learning modalities and the appropriation of ...

2006

Towards reliable communication and agreement in mobile ad-hoc networks : algorithms, simulation and testbed

David Cavin

During the last decade, the number of wireless devices like digital organizers, mobile phones and laptop computers has drastically increased. At the same time, several technologies, like Bluetooth, GPRS, or WiFi have become mature and offer a high-performa ...

EPFL2006

Unifying software and hardware of multithreaded reconfigurable applications within operating system processes

Miljan Vuletic

Novel reconfigurable System-on-Chip (SoC) devices offer combining software with application-specific hardware accelerators to speed up applications. However, by mixing user software and user hardware, principal programming abstractions and system-software ...

EPFL2006