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May 5, 2021 marks the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I. This anniversary is an opportunity to revisit the ties between Napoleon Bonaparte and École Polytechnique, which owes him its military status, its flag and its motto: “For the…

The result of an experiment conducted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States has sparked interest in the particle physics community. The measurement of the muon’s magnetic moment deviates from the theoretical…

Celebrating its 110th anniversary, Tsinghua University, a long-standing international partner of École Polytechnique, organized the Global Forum of University Presidents (GFUP) 2021, on the theme “Innovate for the Future: Vision and New…

Newtonian physics, whose laws govern gravity and collisions, is one of the most complicated elements of game realism to model today. As part of the second annual conference of the "Science and Video Games" Chair, supported by Ubisoft and…

Hanabi, a board game where players must cooperate to share incomplete information, is considered the new challenge for artificial intelligence. Antoine Bauza, Vicky Kalogeiton and Pierre Beri discussed this board game during the "Science…

Tifanie Bouchara, Fabienne Cazalis, Benjamin Misiak and Pierre Eschaich contributed their views and expertise on the issue of neurodiversity at the second annual conference of the "Science and Video Games" Chair.Valuing the abilities of…

Hanabi, a board game where players must cooperate to share incomplete information, is considered the new challenge for artificial intelligence. Antoine Bauza, Vicky Kalogeiton and Pierre Beri discussed this board game during the "Science…

The "Science and Video Games" Chair organises an annual symposium bringing together researchers and video game manufacturers in order to strengthen their interactions. For its second edition, the conference addressed the modelling of…

Part of the Columbia Venture Competition, the final round of the 2021 Alliance Social Enterprise Challenge, took place on April 7th. The finalists pitched their social ventures to the jury. Representing l'X, Julien Hédou (X2015) was…

The third training/awareness-raising seminar on sustainable development, organized with the students of École Polytechnique, took place on April 7th and 8th. It is part of the five strong commitments to sustainable development made by the…