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brominated plastics

Innovative approaches to recycling brominated plastics

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Recovering untreated plastic materials and putting them back into the recycling loop through a decontamination line is the challenge of thesis research by Layla Gripon, a PhD student at IMT Lille Douai. These extraction methods contribute to…
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LCA

What is life cycle analysis?

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Life cycle analysis (LCA) is increasingly common, in particular for eco-design or to obtain a label. It is used to assess the environmental footprint of a product or service by taking into account as many sources as possible. In the following…
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digital intelligence

Digital transformation: how to avoid missing out on the new phase of work that has begun

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Aurélie Dudézert, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School and Florence Laval, IAE de Poitiers [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter a lockdown that has helped reveal how far along companies are in…
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EuHubs4data

Data and AI: fostering innovation at European level

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EuHubs4data, a project funded by the European Union, seeks to make a big contribution to the growth of European SMEs, start-ups and web-based companies in the global data economy. How? By providing them with a European catalogue of data-driven…
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OSO-AI

When AI keeps an ear on nursing home residents

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The OSO-AI start-up has recently completed a €4 million funding round. Its artificial intelligence solution that can detect incidents such as falls or cries for help has convinced investors, along with a number of nursing homes in which it…
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Managing electronic waste: a global problem

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Responsibilities surrounding digital waste are multi-faceted. On one side, it is governments' responsibility to establish tighter border controls to better manage the flow of waste and make sure that it is not transferred to developing countries.…
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fonds industrie

Capsit and Plas’tri, the first start-ups to receive “Industry & Energy 4.0” honor loans

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After the “Digital” fund, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the Fondation Mines-Télécom launched a second fund last October called “Industry & Energy 4.0” and dedicated to the sciences of energy, materials and processes. The Capsit…
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Airstream Alvie Cobbaï

Airstream, Alvie and Cobbaï supported by the IMT Digital honor loan scheme

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The members of the IMT Digital Fund – IGEU, IMT and Fondation Mines-Télécom – held a meeting on 17 November. During the meeting, three start-ups from the Télécom Paris incubator were selected to receive support through seven honor loans…
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Arsenic

Arsenic contamination of water: Detection and treatment challenges

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Arsenic contamination of water, whether surface water or ground water, affects many parts of France. Such contamination may be the result of anthropogenic causes, linked to mining operations for example, or of natural causes in relation to…
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Flood, soil erosion

Agricultural sediments transported by rivers

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The QuASPEr project studied the Canche river basin in northern France to better understand the phenomenon of soil erosion and its related consequences. This knowledge aims to develop effective land management methods for municipalities without…
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Europes green deal

Digital technology, the gap in Europe’s Green Deal

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Fabrice Flipo, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite the Paris Agreement, greenhouse gas emissions are currently at their highest. Further action must be taken…
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IA TV

The automatic semantics of images

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Recognizing faces, objects, patterns, music, architecture, or even camera movements: thanks to progress in artificial intelligence, every plan or sequence in a video can now be characterized. In the IA TV joint laboratory created last October…
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planetary boundaries, urgence climatique, planet's limits

Covid-19 Epidemic: an early warning signal that we’ve reached the planet’s limits?

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Natacha Gondran, Mines Saint-Étienne – Institut Mines-Télécom and Aurélien Boutaud, Mines Saint-Étienne – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] This article was published for the Fête de la Science…
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interactions

How will we interact with the virtual reality?

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The ways we interact with technology change over time and adapt to fit different contexts, bringing new constraints and possibilities. Jan Gugenheimer is a researcher at Télécom Paris and is particularly fascinated by interactions between…
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contact tracing applications

COVID-19: contact tracing applications and new conversational perimeter

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The original version of this article (in French) was published in the quarterly newsletter of the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair (no. 18, September 2020). [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]O[/dropcap]n…
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5G

5G: what it is? How does it work?

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Xavier Lagrange, Professor of network systems, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] 5G is the fifth generation of standards for mobile networks. Although this technology has fueled many…
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Photographie d'un train Regio2n, même modèle que le démonstrateur en résine thermoplastique développé par le projet Destiny

Trains made with recyclable parts

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The Destiny project proposes a new process to manufacture parts for the railway and aeronautical industries. It uses a thermoplastic resin, which enables the materials to be recycled while limiting the pollution associated with manufacturing…
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Temporary tattoos for brain exploration

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A team of bioelectronics researchers at Mines Saint-Étienne has developed a new type of electroencephalogram electrode using a temporary tattoo technique. As effective as traditional electrodes, but much more comfortable, they can provide extended…
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environmental impact

20 terms for understanding the environmental impact of digital technology

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While digital technology plays an essential role in our daily lives, it also a big consumer of resources. To explore the compatibility between the digital and environmental transitions, Institut Mines-Télécom and Fondation Mines-Télécom…
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crise, gestion de crise, crisis management

Crisis management: better integration of citizens’ initiatives

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Caroline Rizza, Télécom Paris – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s part of my research into the benefits of digital technologies in crisis management and in particular the digital…
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Datafarm

Datafarm: low-carbon energy for data centers

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The start-up Datafarm proposes an energy solution for low-carbon digital technology. Within a circular economy system, it powers data centers with energy produced through methanization, by installing them directly on cattle farms.   When…
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silent cities project

Locked-down world, silent cities

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Last spring, France decided to impose a lockdown to respond to the health crisis. Our cities came to a standstill and cars disappeared from the streets, allowing residents to rediscover quieter sounds like birdsong. A team of researchers decided…
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data sharing

Data sharing, a common European challenge

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Promoting data sharing between economic players is one of Europe’s major objectives via its digital governance strategy. To accomplish this, there are two specific challenges to be met. Firstly, a community must be created around data issues,…
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Dagobah

DAGOBAH: Tables, AI will understand

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Human activities produce massive amounts of raw data presented in the form of tables. In order to understand these tables quickly, EURECOM and Orange are developing DAGOBAH, a semantic annotation platform. It aims to develop a generic solution…
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