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In their laboratory simulator- one of kind in Canada- the Polytechnique Montréal team reproduces the conditions under which ice forms and ice jams build up (Photo : Professor Shakibaeinia' laboratory) Every spring (and sometimes even during winter ...
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Integrating machine learning algorithms into dental prosthesis design process could decrease design error frequency. (Photo : Laboratoire de recherche MAGNU) Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon find applications.... in our mouths!? A Polytechnique ...
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Mobile antennas in the 5G range are small, which makes them easy to integrate into electronic circuits; here they are on a millimeter-wave beamformer circuit. Newer 6G antennas will be even smaller. (Photo: Mohammad Sharawi) While "5G"- aka th ...
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The Falcon 10X business jet from French manufacturer Dassault is one of many new models that incorporate touch screens in the cockpit. The delivery of Dassault’s first planes is scheduled for 2025. (Photo : Dassault Aviation) In his Polytechnique Montré ...
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Before driving on our roads, each autonomous car will have to obtain a certification from Transport Canada, a step that’s only possible if cars are shielded from computer attacks. (Photo: Eschenzweig, license CC BY-SA 4.0). By putting in-car artificial ...
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For the training of artificial intelligence tools developed by HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, images of disasters used- including those generated by the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the West Indies in 2016. (PHOTO: Haiti Hit by Hurricane Ma ...
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By pairing a biosensor- like this one- with a bioreactor filled with cultured cells, Professor De Crescenzo wants to ensure that the quality of antibodies is monitored during the manufacturing process, rather than after its been completed. (Photo: Marti ...
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In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...
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By exposing a gas to electric field, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created. (Photo: Sean Watson) In a greenhouse on Montréal's North Shore, Stephan Reuter will soon be testing a device likely to accelerate plant growth, assist plants to ...
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PhD student Maissaloun El-Jakl, who works in Professor Louis Laberge Lebel's laboratory, is developing part of a mass production-oriented braiding and pultrusion process for composite hockey stick handles. (Photo: Martin Primeau) Braided hockey sti ...
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Thanks to a protocol developed by Professor Julien Cohen-Adad and his collaborators, it's now possible to use AI to read spinal cord MRI data. (Photo : NeuroPoly) Not content with just one, two articles penned by Cohen-Adad and his team have just b ...
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Professor Olivier Henry's brand new bioreactors were quickly put to work to produce billions of copies of the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19. (Photo: Martin Primeau) In the bioreactors in his lab in the J-Armand Bombardier (JAB) pa ...
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Before conducting its first test flight, Reaction Dynamics is testing its hybrid engine for efficacy and safety at a test site in Joliette (Photo: Reaction Dynamics) Three years after leaving Polytechnique Montréal, Bachar Elzein is preparing for the da ...
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An “optical nose” developed by Yves Alain Peter's team was tested earlier this summer at McGill University's Macdonald Experimental Dairy Farm. (Photo: Marc-Antoine Bianki) Just like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, Yves-Alain Peter's labo ...
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The swarm of rovers from Polytechnique's MIST Laboratory have mapped a site reminiscent of the Moon and Mars at the Canadian Space Agency. (Photo: Marcel Kaufmann) If you visit the Polytechnique Montreal campus over the next few days, it's ver ...
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Spatiotemporal Ultrasound Localization Microscopy can reveal a whole world hitherto inaccessible to medical teams. On the right, the image of a mouse brain without image processing, and on the left, after microbubbles localization (Photo: Chloé Bourquin ...
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Guaranteeing access to parks via active modes of transport fosters equity between citizens, regardless of age or income level, says Professor Geneviève Boisjoly. (Photo: Catherine Lacroix-Couture). Teleworking- a source of well-being? Not necessarily, a ...
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Before disappearing entirely from Montréal’s skyline, the “old” Champlain Bridge will reveal a few of its secrets. (Photo: JCCBI) In the shadow of the new Samuel-De Champlain Bridge, workers have been busy since last autumn dismantling its older sibling ...
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Charlotte Dubost (photo : Anne-Marie Lambert-Chevrier) When Charlotte Dubost decided on a rather unconventional subject for her Master’s degree in engineering, she approached a handful of professors on both sides of the Atlantic. The result? Polytechniq ...
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En les interrogeant avec quelques données associées à un individu, les algorithmes de type « forêt aléatoire » pourraient révéler toutes les informations manquantes à son sujet, de la même façon qu'on remplit la grille d’un Sudoku. (Image générée par ...
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