The EPFL Center For Global Computing (CGC) is an association of
research groups and laboratories of the School of Computer and Communication
Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne(EPFL).
The Center aims at fostering interdisciplinary research in the general area
of global computing and distributed systems by providing its
members with an efficient scientific and administrative support for
collaborative research projects in the Center research area. The CGC may
represent any of its members in various research and/or industrial projects. The
CGC may also contribute to the realization of collaborative projects involving
several of its members by developing integrative environments for the
valorization of specific research results developed by the CGC staff or the CGC
members.
The CGC is composed of a management team, an executive board and, a college
of affiliated and associated units.
Integrated Systems Centre The Integrated Systems Centre has the purpose of gathering faculty, graduate
students, researchers and industrial partners in the research and
development of design technologies for integrated systems. The centre
researches different design aspects for integrated systems on silicon, as
well as on heterogeneous platforms including, but not limited to, electrical,
optical, micromechanical and biological components in various forms and
mixtures. The scientific projects include topics at the intersection of
various disciplines, such as electrical engineering, computer science,
biology and medicine.
MICS was started in 2001 as a National Center of Competence in Research
(NCCR) in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSN). It is a nation-wide center
encompassing more than 40 faculty members across different Swiss universities
and about 80 PhD students. The NCCR MICS is tackling all the technological
challenges that have to be addressed in order for WSN to realize their full
potential, from the study of fundamental principles to the development of
platforms, and to their deployment in applications.
