ICTEAM in the News

Press releases in French or Dutch

Articles featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel and Prof. Michel Verleysen for their joint UCL/MIT paper on privacy and mobile phone data (see also below) :

• "Votre smartphone vous espionne" in Le Soir, April 9, 2013
• "Un espion se cache dans nos smartphones", RTBF, April 4, 2013 (article + TV broadcast) 
• "Bezitter telefoon makkelijk te identificeren" in The Telegraaf, March 27, 2013
• "Smartphone-spoor is unieke handtekening" in De Standaard, March 26, 2013

Articles featuring Prof. Laurent Francis and Nicolas André about their researches about LEDs in collaboration with the University of Namur (see also a TV broadcast)

• "Les nouvelles lampes s'inspirent des lucioles" in Science & Vie, April 2013
• "Lumineux ! " in Athena, February 2013
• "Des chercheurs de Namur s'inspirent des lucioles" in L'Avenir.net, January 2013

Articles featuring Prof. Kim Mens, published in Data News on November 23, 2012 and included on this page with permission.

• "Un logiciel qui sait ce qui peut et doit être fait"
• "Software die weet wat kan en moet"

Articles featuring Prof. Sorin Melinte

• RTBF - La Une - Journal télévisé : "Nouvelle batterie au lithium" (video)
• "Longue vie aux batteries " in Athena, November 2012

Articles featuring Prof. Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Keemotion :

• "Keemotion met le sport à la portée de toutes les tablettes" in L'Echo, June 26, 2012
• "La télé sportive robotisée" in La Libre Entreprise, June 23, 2012
• "Recherche - Développer l'image de Keymotion" in Le Soir, July 11, 2011

"Surveiller et coder" in L'Echo Magazine, May 13, 2012 - featuring Prof. Olivier Pereira and BlueKrypt

Making use of billions of cellphone data collected from millions of users, Prof. Vincent Blondel and his researchers Gautier Krings and Pierre Deville generated the first country maps of "social regions". These studies and maps were published in the scientific press and received wide coverage in both Belgian and international press.

• "België met 17 provincies tellen" in De Standaard, April 13, 2012
• "Provincies bestaan niet, sociale regio's wel" in De Morgen, April 13, 2012
• "België telt geen tien maar zeventiel provincies" in De Morgen, April 7, 2012
• "Le mobile, reflet des frontières françaises" in Le Monde, December 17, 2011
• "The Really Smart Phone" in The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2011
• "Le GSM redessine Bruxelles", in La Libre Belgique, October 2, 2010
• "L'usage des GSM par les Belges redessine Bruxelles" in La Dernière Heure, October 2, 2010

The media gave extensive coverage to the study carried out by Prof. Michel Gevers about the performance of Belgian research. The study reexamines the famous "rankings" while taking into account, among other criteria, the budget dedicated to research. 

• "Pourquoi les chercheurs belges sont-ils si productifs" (carte blanche - M. Gevers, UCL and V. Rogiers, VUB) in Le Soir, March 26, 2012
• "Belgische wetenschappers zijn wereldtop" in De Morgen, March 26, 2012
• "Waarom onze wetenschappers zo goed scoren" in De Morgen, March 26, 2012
• "Les scientifiques belges dans le top mondial" in L'Avenir.net, March 26, 2012
• "ULg: le top des chercheurs" in La Meuse, March 27, 2012
• "Les scientifiques belges parmi les meilleurs du monde" in L'Echo, March 27, 2012
• "La recherche belge au top mondial" in Metro, March 27, 2012
• "Les chercheurs belges sont très performants malgré peu de moyens" in RTBF Info, March 30, 2012
• "Les scientifiques belges dans le top mondial" in La Libre.be, March 30, 2012
• "La neuroscience belge, première place mondiale" in Le Journal du Médecin, March 30, 2012
• "Belgische wetenschappers worden volop geciteerd" in Artsenkrant, April 3, 2012

 Articles featuring Thibault Helleputte, post-doctoral researcher :

• "MIC Boostcamp Awards: le data mining à l'honneur" in Datanews (Le Vif/l'Express), December 15, 2011
• "DNAlytics, spin-off ambitieuse" in L'Echo, May 11, 2011 

Press releases in English

Articles featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel  and Prof. Michel Verleysen for their joint UCL/MIT paper on privacy and mobile phone data :

• "Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk'" in BBC, March 25, 2013
• "How your movements create a GPS 'fingerprint'" in CNN, March 16, 2013
• "Study shows how easy it is to determine someone's identity with cell phone data" in PhysOrg, March 25, 2013
• "Why the collision of big data and privacy will require a new realpolitik" in GigaOM, March 25, 2013 
• "How Access to Location Data Could Trample Your Privacy" in MIT Technology Review, March 26, 2013 
• "Mobile location data identifies individuals: You are where you go" in The Register, March 26, 2013 
• "Trust us to pseudonymise your data, says GSK" in Wired, March 26, 2013 
• "How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?" in MIT News, March 27, 2013 
• "Does Mobile Phone Location Data Makes Anonymity Impossible?" in The Huffington Post, March 26, 2013 
• "Online anonymity: impossible after four phone calls" in The Telegraph, March 26, 2013 
• "Identifying People from Mobile Phone Location Data" - Bruce Schneier (Liars and Outliers) - March 26, 2013
• "Using a mobile phone betrays your privacy" in The Inquirer, March 26, 2013 
• "Just four phone calls may reveal your identity: Report" in The Times of India, March 26, 2013
• "Online anonymity: impossible after four phone calls" in The Independent, March 26, 2013 

Articles featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel :

• "The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture", in TheAtlanticCities.com, April 26, 2012 - featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel
• "The Really Smart Phone" in The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2011 - featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel
• "Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos " in MIT Technology Review, May 27, 2010 - featuring Prof. Vincent Blondel

TV Broadcasts

LEDs and fireflies : explanations about Prof. Laurent Francis and Nicolas André's researches in the RTBF television news (from min. 14) - March 31, 2013

A 3-minute TV broadcast about Prof. Benoît Macq, prorector and PI : TV Com Brabant Wallon (from min. 12 to min. 15) - January 3, 2013