School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Our School is one of the main European centers for education and research in the field of computing.

We take pride in educating students at all levels in the exciting and world-changing fields of science and technology, performing research that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge, as well as fostering the commercial use of our research and the entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty and students.
The artifacts and software of the technology revolution have changed peoples’ lives in countless ways over the past half century. And, this revolution is not over! The intellectual accomplishments of computer science are diffusing into many other disciplines, changing the way that researchers, practitioners, and people in general see their world and conceive of solutions. We are proud and happy to be at the center of these revolutions.

MISSIONS

Education

We offer a bachelor program in Computer Science and one in Communications. We also offer three master’s programs: Computer Science, Communications, and Data Science. Starting Fall 2019, we will add an additional master in Cyber Security.

Research

Research in IC spans a broad range of topics. Our faculty members are world leaders in many of these areas, and our PhD students go on to successful careers in academia and industry throughout Switzerland and the world.

Innovation

Our school works closely with industry, both in Switzerland and throughout the world, to lend our expertise to solve challenging problems and to bring new ideas from our labs into innovative products.

News

USB connections can open up computers to attack if their operating systems contain vulnerabilities. © iStock/cicerocastro

USB software security tool catches 26 bugs across operating systems

Published:29.05.20 — EPFL researchers have developed a new tool called USBFuzz, which they have already used to detect 26 vulnerabilities in the USB driver stacks of widely used operating systems including Linux, Windows, and macOS.

First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app

Published:25.05.20 — As of today, employees at EPFL, ETH Zurich, the Army, and some hospitals and cantonal administrations can download the digital proximity tracing application "SwissCovid". This large-scale pilot, the first in the world using the OS updates from Apple and Google, paves the way for public availability by mid-June.

The students had to work together to decrypt alphabetic and numeric messages within two hours © Alain Herzog

Alkindi cryptography competition goes online

Published:19.05.20 — More than 1,525 secondary students from across French-speaking Switzerland took part in the three preliminary challenges of the second Swiss edition of the cryptography challenge, Alkindi. The final competition was held online on May 13th.

All IC News

SwissCovid app pilot launch

Spotlight

CIS Colloquium – Safe Machine Learning by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser

Event

Latest Updates

Info COVID-19

[ AI Governance Forum 2020 – Focus: COVID-19 and Climate Change ]

The AI Transparency Institute is glad to invite you to its second edition of the AI Governance Forum on 8-9 June 2020. Title: From AI Governance to the Governance via AI ? Opportunities and Challenges. With a focus on…

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