
Airstream, Alvie and Cobbaï supported by the IMT Digital honor loan scheme
Digital, In the News, Start-up-enThe 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…

Arsenic contamination of water: Detection and treatment challenges
Energy & environment, Environment, In the News
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…

Agricultural sediments transported by rivers
Energy & environment, In the NewsThe 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…

Digital technology, the gap in Europe’s Green Deal
Digital, Energy, Energy & environment, In the NewsFabrice Flipo, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
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[dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite the Paris Agreement, greenhouse gas emissions are currently at their highest. Further action must be taken…

The automatic semantics of images
Carnot EN, Digital, In the NewsRecognizing 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…

Covid-19 Epidemic: an early warning signal that we’ve reached the planet’s limits?
Covid-19 EN, Energy & environment, Environment, In the NewsNatacha Gondran, Mines Saint-Étienne – Institut Mines-Télécom and Aurélien Boutaud, Mines Saint-Étienne – Institut Mines-Télécom
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This article was published for the Fête de la Science…

How will we interact with the virtual reality?
Digital, In the NewsThe 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…

COVID-19: contact tracing applications and new conversational perimeter
Covid-19 EN, Digital, Health, In the NewsThe 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).
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5G: what it is? How does it work?
Digital, In the NewsXavier Lagrange, Professor of network systems, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom
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5G is the fifth generation of standards for mobile networks. Although this technology has fueled many…

Trains made with recyclable parts
In the News, MaterialsThe 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…