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New data among 200 Lucentis abstracts at ARVO show low number of injections with Novartis drug required to achieve and maintain vision gains over 3 years in AMD and DME patients
Data from key studies highlight the value of individualized therapy and reinforce Lucentis (ranibizumab) well-characterized long-term efficacy and safety profile RESTORE extension study in DME patients shows mean of 3.7 and 2.7 Lucentis injections required in years two and three, respectively, to maintain vision gains from core study Swiss retrospective study shows mean 8 letter VA gain sustained in wet AMD patients using individual

CERN awards major contract for computer infrastructure hosting to Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary
Geneva, 8 May 2012. CERN 1 today signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics 2 in Budapest for an extension to the CERN data centre.

Un réseau social créé à l’UNIL pour communiquer avec les jeunes
Le projet « Expériences » du Pôle de recherche national LIVES et le Centre informatique de l'UNIL ont élaboré une sorte de Facebook artisanal afin de dialoguer avec les participants à une étude sur la transition vers le monde professionnel.

LTS2 Paper Accepted to ICIP 2012
The paper Plenoptic Spherical Sampling has been accepted for presentation at 19th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) The paper presents a novel sampling scheme that permits an efficient representation of the 4D light field in free space.

Wertsteigerung durch den Einsatz von «IT in der Beschaffung»
Der Schweizerische Fachverband für Einkauf und Supply Management procure.ch und das Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW sind eine Forschungszusammenarbeit eingegangen.

An der FHNW entwickelte Software gewinnt CeBit-Innovationspreis
Die Software SocialSalesMap wurde am Institut für 4D-Technologien im Rahmen eines KTI-Projekts für die Firma Blueconomics entwickelt.

Clearing the Clouds: Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2012

Automated Software Synthesis
A new method to automatically generate computer software components that are guaranteed to behave correctly. Researchers at EPFL discovered a new method to automatically generate computer software components that are guaranteed to behave correctly. Among the benefits of this line of research is making software development easier and making our computing infrastructure less vulnerable to crashes and hangs.

60 serveurs haute-performance offerts à l’UniNE
Après avoir acheminé des millions de messages durant deux ans, ils sont désormais au service de la recherche et de l'enseignement.

Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing
Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing Geneva, 1 March 2012.

A new book on "Remote Sensing Image Processing"
The book "Remote Sensing Image Processing", edited by Gustavo Camps-Valls (Universitat de València), Devis Tuia ( LASIG laboratory), Luis Gómez-Chova, Sandra Jiménez and Jesús Malo, is now available at Morgan and Claypool publishers. The book deals with Earth observation, which is the field of science concerned with the problem of monitoring and modeling the processes on the Earth surface and their interaction with the atmosphere.

EU fördert UZH- und ETH-Forscher mit 26 Millionen
Drei Spitzenforscher der Universität Zürich und sieben der ETH Zürich werden mit dem höchsten Forschungspreis der EU ausgezeichnet.

3 new IC Professors elevated to IEEE Fellows in 2012
Babak Falsafi, Pascal Fua and Emre Telatar have been elevated to IEEE Fellows this year. This brings the number of IC professors who are IEEE Fellows to ten, a quarter of the faculty.

Your itineraries at a glance

New TIP Submission
Learning of Pattern Transformation Manifolds, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

FNS: premier rapport sur le plagiat dans les requêtes
Entre octobre 2010 et septembre 2011, le FNS a traité dix cas d'éventuels plagiats dans les requêtes déposées.

ABB liefert Unterstationen für erstes Rechenzentrum von Facebook ausserhalb der USA
Zürich, Schweiz, 15. Dezember 2011 - ABB hat von Pinnacle Sweden, einer Tochtergesellschaft der Facebook Inc., einen Auftrag im Wert von rund 11 Millionen US-Dollar für Stromversorgungstechnik für den ersten Serverpark von Facebook ausserhalb der USA erhalten.

Pen and Paper Computing: an old technology in a modern world
A talk by Nadir Weibel from the University of California San Diego Monday January 30th 2012, Room RLC D1 761 Access to information is one of the most crucial aspects of everyday life.

Human-Computer Interaction with a Different Touch
Talk by Hans Gellersen December 15th, 15:15, Room BC410 Touch input and two-handed interaction were intensively studied in the mid 80's but it's taken 20 years for these ideas to emerge in the mainstream, with the advent of multi-touch interfaces.

Jacques Pasquier élu Vice-recteur de l’Université de Fribourg

EPFL robots will soon appear in school classrooms
EPFL scientists have developed an educational robot designed to introduce children to technology in schools.

Marc-Antoine Nuessli Public Thesis Defence
Marc-Antoine Nuessli's thesis entitled "Dual Eye-Tracking Methods for the Study of Remote Collaborative Problem Solving" on December 21th, 2011, at 17h00, room BC 410 We have the pleasure to invite you to the public defense of Marc-Antoine Nuessli's thesis entitled "Dual Eye-Tracking Methods for the Study of Remote Collaborative Problem Solving" The talk will take place at 17h00 on Dec.

Eye, I, aye
Eye, I, aye: investigating embodiment, identity and sociality and the Internet a talk from Elizabeth Churchill, on December 16th, at 10h15, in room BC 410 Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the increasingly broad remit of human computer interaction (HCI) as a discipline.