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DigitALL: Innovation at EPFL for explainable and equitable AI

— It’s International Women’s Day 2023 and this year the focus is on innovation, technological change and education in the digital age for gender equality. New research from EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences aims to break gender and other biases.

Demo of the Static AR app, which allows apprentices to see and understand the forces acting on a roof structure. © Alain Herzog 2017 EPFL

Powering vocational education and training with technology

— For more than 15 years, EPFL researchers have been exploring ways to improve training for apprentices. The findings are summarized in a recently published book and a website for teachers, and new educational technologies are currently being developed.

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Girl Power: Can we Break the Bias in Al and Beyond?

— We all know the story. It gets rolled out every March when women and men around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. Human biases are well documented, from the implicit to the explicit and they have always existed but as algorithms and big data increasingly run our lives these biases become embedded in everything.

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Innosuisse flagship Swiss Circular Economy of Skills and Competences

— Innosuisse accepted the flagship "Swiss Circular Economy of Skills and Competences" in which Tanja Käser (ML4ED lab) will collaborate with HSG, EHB, UZH, ZHAW, and the EdTech company Evrlearn from 2022 on.

Tanja Käser heads the new Digital Vocation, Education and Training Laboratory. © EPFL Alain Herzog

Three questions for IC professor Tanja Käser

— Tanja Käser has recently joined the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) as a tenure-track assistant professor, and head of the new Digital Vocation, Education and Training Laboratory. She tells us about her background and plans for research in the field of digital education.

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IC welcomes new professor, Tanja Käser

— At its meeting of 11/12 December 2019, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Board) appointed a total of 26 professors to EPFL and ETH Zurich. One of these was Tanja Käser, who has been named a tenure-track assistant professor in the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC).

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Nominations of EPFL professors

— The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of 7 professors at EPFL.

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