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.

Education

We offer a bachelor program in Computer Science and one in Communications. We also offer four master’s programs: Computer Science, Communications, Data Science and 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.

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EPFL inspired technology helping Swiss COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

14.09.21EPFL community

Two EPFL alumni bring their OneDoc platform ‘home’ as a COVID-19 vaccination center is to open on the Ecublens campus.

Digital Screen with young woman using a virtual reality headset © iStock / EPFL 2021

Simulated Worlds

06.09.21EPFL

“Ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?” Guess we all have that feeling sometimes, Neo. In “The Matrix”, right at the beginning of the movie, Neo already has some doubts about the realness of his everyday reality, although he has seen nothing of the Matrix yet. How do you tell actual perception from a dream state? Is he, or are we all, maybe just experiencing a shadow world?

Woman hiding behind white mask © iStock / EPFL 2021

Deepfake Arms Race

31.08.21EPFL

Stories of fakes, forgeries, fortunes and folly have intrigued people throughout the ages, from the Athenian Onomacritus, who around 500 BC was said to have been a forger of old oracles and poems, to Shaun Greenhalgh, who between 1978 and 2006 infamously created hundreds of Renaissance, Impressionist and other art forgeries, amassing more than a million euros and ultimately spending time in prison.