by Sarah Frei | Jan 1, 2023 | Technology Reviews
Foreword 2022 was a groundbreaking year for developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The company OpenAI unveiled two AI-based systems, DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, which are able to automatically generate images respectively texts of such high quality that they...
by Alexander Glavackij, Dimitri Percia David, Alain Mermoud, Angelika Romanou, Karl Aberer | Nov 29, 2022 | Publications, Scientific Articles
Abstract Because of the considerable heterogeneity and complexity of the technological landscape, building accurate models to forecast is a challenging endeavor. Due to their high prevalence in many complex systems, S-curves are a popular forecasting approach in...
by Martin Burkhart, Roland Meier, Bernhard Tellenbach, Kilian Cuche | Nov 8, 2022 | Podcasts, Publications, Scientific Articles
The Swiss National Cyberstrategy (NCS) considers cybersecurity research as a crucial pillar to strengthen Switzerland’s ability to protect itself against cyberthreats. In addition, cybersecurity research is expected to contribute directly to Switzerland’s economic...
by François Burguet, Loïc Maréchal, Alain Mermoud | Nov 7, 2022 | Publications, Scientific Articles
Abstract This paper revisits the study of Cochrane (2005), to estimate the risk and returns of venture capital investments while correcting for the selection bias. We use an up-to-date dataset and enhance it to account for missing firm valuations using machine...
by Technology Observatory | Nov 3, 2022 | Past Events
The Swiss Technology Observatory inauguration will officialy take place on November, 3 at the EPFL Innovation Park, Building I as of 6pm. More information and subscription via Swissintell.
by Technology Observatory | Oct 26, 2022 | Past Events
This year’s Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus Conference will take place in the Kursaal in Bern on October, 26. The key issue of the Conference will be ensuring future digital infrastructures. Alain Mermoud and Valentin Mulder will present trends in data protection and...
by Technology Observatory | Oct 21, 2022 | Past Events
Encryption Europe, Tresorit, and ISOC are holding an exclusive, invitation-only, face-to-face event celebrating encryption at the Crowne Plaza Zurich. Valentin Mulder will present trends in data protection and encryption technologies. More information and subscription...
by Michael Tsesmelis, Ljiljana Dolamic, Marcus Matthias Keupp, Dimitri Percia David, Alain Mermoud | Sep 21, 2022 | Publications, Scientific Articles
Abstract Strategic decisions rely heavily on non-scientific instrumentation to forecast emerging technologies and leading companies. Instead, we build a fast quantitative system with a small computational footprint to discover the most important technologies and...
by Technology Observatory | Jul 27, 2022 | Search Trends
Search trends for Blockchain (blue), Cryptocurrency (red), and Ethereum (yellow). The vertical axis represents the index of Google Search (a proxy for the interest captured by the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages)....
by Technology Observatory | Jul 27, 2022 | Search Trends
Search trends for GPT-3 (blue), DALL-E 2 (red), Hugging Face (yellow), and OpenAI (green). The vertical axis represents the index of Google Search (a proxy for the interest captured by the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and...
