Meditron 70B is an example of Humanitarian foundational model. It is open source, accessible, transparent, local and has no dependency. It was trained on 128 GPUs for 13 days on EPFL clusters. It shows remarkable performances on benchmarks and was also challenged by doctors with…

I am thrilled to join the Digital Humanities Lab (epfl.ch/labs/dhlab/) as a postdoc this month, working with Frederic Kaplan!

Excited to announce the publication of the first paper of my doctoral research, exploring 350 years of visual evolution in cartography ! 🗺️🤖 Published with Johannes H. Uhl Isabella di Lenardo Frederic Kaplan in Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Read it here ➡️ rdcu.be/dAjmA

Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) at the EPFL Grand Témoin ceremony : “Current levels of CO2 are similar to a climate last observed 3-5 million years ago”

Beatrice Vaienti of EPFL's DHLAB is using digital tools to explore the cartographic history of Jerusalem and challenge our perceptions of maps. Learn about her journey in the #EPFLglobaLeaders program.

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In Nov 2023, our College of Humanities' MA in Digital Humanities celebrated its first DH Alumni Day! Over 15 alumni returned to share their career and academic journeys, highlighting how their MA has shaped their success.

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David Berry David M. Berry at the EPFL Digital Humanities Futures conference series talks about « who owns and controls the means of cognition ».

The deadline to apply for these 4 positions is 31.12. Interviews will be conducted in the first weeks of January. Last chance to join us on a new adventure.

We are hiring a web developer, two research data engineers in Digital Humanities and a postdoctoral researcher in Large Language Models. All start in February 2024. Please share widely.

Web Developer for Digital Cultural Heritage (DHLAB / Parcels of Venice Project)…

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”

As the Shakespearean drama continues to unfold before our eyes, each minute brings us a little closer to making the idea of an AI-CEO acceptable.

« If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more ». Open AI, a contemporary Shakespearean trilogy: ‘The Rosewood Conjuration’ (2015), ‘The Failed Coup’ (2018), and ‘I Love You All’ (2023)