School of Computer and Communication Sciences

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

We take pride in educating students at all levels in the exciting and world-changing science and technology of ICT, performing research that drives forward the boundaries of knowledge in these fields, 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. IC is 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

EPFL helps launch globally distributed randomness generator

Published:20.06.19 — The EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) Decentralized and Distributed Systems (DEDIS) lab has participated in the launch of an international consortium to put its research on publicly verifiable, distributed randomness into practice.

Scala Days event celebrates 10 years

Published:20.06.19 — From June 11th-13th, the Scala Days conference took place at the SwissTech Convention Center, marking the conference’s 10-year anniversary.

Machine learning skills in demand

Published:14.06.19 — For the first time last fall, students in the machine learning course CS433 in the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) had real-world options for their final projects: they could collaborate with any research lab on campus on real problems, or reproduce results from computer science literature. Besides creating fascinating interdisciplinary studies, some of the student work has even been published.

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