The brain: seeing between the fibers of white matter
Digital, Health, In the NewsThe principle behind diffusion imaging and tractography is exploring how water spreads through our brain in order to study the structure of neurons. Doctors can use this method to improve their understanding of brain disease. Pietro Gori, a…
Bitcoin: the economic issues at stake
Digital, In the News, SocietyPatrick Waelbroeck, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)
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[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ryptocurrencies like Bitcoin only have value if all the participants in the monetary system view it to as currency. It…
A third ERC grant in 3 years at EURECOM
Digital, Europe EN, In the NewsGetting a grant from the European Research Council is not an easy task but this is what Davide Balzarotti, Professor in the Security Department, has just accomplished. He is the third EURECOM professor to obtain an ERC grant in the past 3 years.
Davide,…
DessIA: Engineering of the Future with Artificial Intelligence
Digital, In the News, Start-up-enWhat is the best architecture for the gearbox of a hybrid car? If an engineer had to answer that question, he would consider a handful of possibilities based on what already exists on the market. But the startup DessIA takes a whole different…
Will health apps soon be covered by health insurance?
Digital, Health, In the NewsCharlotte Krychowski, Télécom École de Management – Institut Mines-Télécom ;
Meyer Haggège, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) and Myriam Le Goff-Pronost, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom
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Smarter Time: your life in your pocket
Digital, In the News, Start-up-enThe start-up Smarter Time participated in the Lisbon Web Summit, from November 6-9. The company is incubated at ParisTech entrepreneurs, and offers an activity and time management application which helps users to better organize their day-to-day…
5G: the new generation of mobile is already a reality
Digital, In the News[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile 4G is still being rolled out, 5G is already in the starting blocks. For consumers whose smartphones still show “3G” alongside a reception indicator which rarely makes it over two bars out of four, this can be quite…
Millimeter waves for mobile broadband
Digital, In the News5G will inevitably involve opening new frequency bands allowing operators to increase their data flows. Millimeter waves are among the favorites, as they have many advantages: large bandwidth, adequate range, and small antennas. Whether or not…
5G… and beyond: Three standardization challenges for the future of communication
Digital, In the News[dropcap]G[/dropcap]enerations of mobile technologies come around at the rate of about one every ten years. Ten years is also roughly the amount of time it takes for them to be created. No sooner has a generation been offered to end consumers…
SDN and virtualization: more intelligence in 5G networks
Digital, In the NewsNew uses for 5G imply a new way of managing telecommunications networks. To open the way for new actors, we will have to divide and virtualize network slices, and find a dynamic way of allocating them to new services. This organization is made…