Lecture

Intelligent Systems: Building a Collaborative Research Environment

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This lecture discusses the rationale behind launching the Center for Intelligence Systems (CIS) at EPFL, focusing on the importance of building intelligent systems rather than just AI or machine learning tools. The deans of various schools explain how CIS aims to bring together different disciplines to create functional systems that solve complex tasks, emphasizing the need for a systemic and interdisciplinary approach. They highlight the role of CIS in fostering collaborations across faculties, promoting innovative research projects, and attracting industry partnerships. The lecture also addresses the potential impact of CIS on teaching, research, and industry engagement, emphasizing the unique position of EPFL as a small institution with significant research capabilities.

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Institution

Institutions (singular: institution) are humanly devised structures of rules and norms that shape and constrain individual behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and norms are all examples of institutions. Institutions vary in their level of formality and informality. Institutions are a principal object of study in social sciences such as political science, anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter described by Émile Durkheim as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning").

Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.