NCCR MICS strongly influenced the development of the “School of Computer and Communication Sciences” (IC) at EPFL, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, and was instrumental in attracting key partners to the EPFL Technology Park. At ETHZ, a new institute and master’s programme were developed around MICS topics. The NCCR could attract over 15 new top faculty members to the country.
The MICS legacy lives on in numerous new programmes (of educational nature as well as with a research focus, such as the nano-tera.ch initiative, and numerous European projects), and stable inter-organizational and inter-disciplinary collaborations, within the participating institutions as well as between EPFL and ETH Zurich. Thanks to the know-how created in MICS, Switzerland is ready for the challenges of the next decade: the ubiquitous role that cyber-technical and socio-technical systems based on mobile computing platforms will play in everyone's life.
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Number of created professorships | - 15 new full professors
- 14 new assistant professors
- No replacements
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Junior group leaders (young associated scientists) | - 5 junior group leaders (supported within NCCR)
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Infrastructure / platforms | - New BC building at EPFL
- CCES Swiss Experiment Platform
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NCCR network | - EPFL, ETH Zürich, University Lausanne, University Neuchatel, HEIG-VD, CSEM, University Basel, University Bern, University Della Svizzera Italiana
- Microsoft Research, IBM, Siemens, SwissCom, Nokia, Whitestein Technologies, Qualcomm, shockfish, ST Microelectronics, NTT Docomo, Deutsche Telekom, Intel, Nagra, Kudelski
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More than thirty former PhD students and postdocs of NCCR MICS obtained chairs at prestigious universities abroad such as Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, TU Munich etc. Some also hold positions at Swiss universities or the EPFL and ETHZ.