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...
by Technology Observatory | Jul 27, 2022 | Search Trends
Search trends for 3G (blue), 4G (red), and 5G (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). Such an index is used to...
by Sarah Ismail, Alain Mermoud, Dimitri Percia David, Valentin Mulder, Loïc Maréchal, Samuel Orso | May 1, 2022 | Podcasts, Publications, Scientific Articles
Abstract The goal of this quantitative study is to identify, analyze, and forecast trends related to data protection and encryption technologies. Based on Wikipedia pageview statistics, we study the public interest in 36 technologies that were previously identified by...
by Dimitri Percia David, William Blonay, Sébastien Gillard, Alain Mermoud, Loïc Maréchal, Michael Tsesmelis, Thomas Maillart | Apr 4, 2022 | Podcasts, Scientific Articles
Abstract The quantitative study of security dynamics in computer-science technologies is essential for understanding security-development patterns of information systems. Here, we specify and investigate security dynamics as (i) the relation between technological and...
by Alexander Glavackij, Dimitri Percia David, Jacques Roitel, Alain Mermoud, Angelika Romanou, Thomas Maillart | Feb 1, 2022 | Podcasts, Publications, Scientific Articles
Abstract In an environment where technological development largely determines economic growth and social change, predicting these developments is critical for strategic decisions in organizations. Previous work widely uses S-curves to model technological development...
