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Fine Arts in Transition: An Operative Research and Teaching Approach between Analogue and Digital

The volume collects the material produced for the exhibition 'The Sky in the Room' and a selection of scientific texts on the question of analogue continuity in digital transition. The contributions will be focused on verifying the operative method in teac ...

EPFL Press2024

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

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Human babies have a natural desire to interact with new toys and objects, through which they learn how the world around them works, e.g., that glass shatters when dropped, but a rubber ball does not. When their predictions are proven incorrect, such as whe ...

EPFL2024

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

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Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

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Genome-wide chromatin conformation capture assays provide formidable insights into the spatial organization of genomes. However, due to the complexity of the data structure, their integration in multi-omics workflows remains challenging. We present data st ...

Nature Research2024

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EPFL2024

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EPFL2024

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SPRINGER2023

The Societal and Scientific Importance of Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity in Machine Learning for Chemistry

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Method for Design Materialization (MDM) for artists, educators and archivists: an introduction

This contribution argues for the potential of Barr, Khaled and Lessard’s Method for Design Materialization (MDM) as a research through design tool that is specifically suited for new media preservation. Building moreover from the ISEA first and second Summ ...

2023

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If automatic document processing techniques have achieved a certain maturity for present time documents, the transformation of hand-written documents into well-represented, structured and connected data which can satisfactorily be used for historical study ...

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Discovering new materials is essential but challenging, time-consuming, and expensive. In many cases, simulations can be useful for estimating material properties. For many of the most interesting properties, however, simulations are infeasible because of ...

EPFL2023

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Zenodo2023

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

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Nature Portfolio2023

Partial Information Sharing Over Social Learning Networks

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This work addresses the problem of sharing partial information within social learning strategies. In social learning, agents solve a distributed multiple hypothesis testing problem by performing two operations at each instant: first, agents incorporate inf ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

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2023

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EPFL2023

Dated: Guidelines for Creating Synthetic Datasets for Engineering Design Applications

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Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2023

incentive Mechanism Design for Responsible Data Governance: A Large-Scale Field Experiment

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A crucial building block of responsible artificial intelligence is responsible data governance, including data collection. Its importance is also underlined in the latest EU regulations. The data should be of high quality, foremost correct and representati ...

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