L'X and Google France announce the creation of an International Academic and Research Chair in the field of artificial intelligence. The Artificial Intelligence and Visual Computing Chair aims to strengthen the ecosystem of excellence in France in AI by attracting international talents and training researchers and innovators of tomorrow.

A delegation from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), led by its President Naokazu Yokoya, was at l’X on March 13th, 2018. This visit was part of the 8th symposium organized by the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM) and NAIST.

Ingenieur Polytechnicien Russian students organized on Marche 28 a conference on academic and professional opportunities in Russia and invited the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France to talk on the subject.

H.E. Mr. Zainal Arif Mantaha, Ambassador of Singapore to France, was at l’X on March 6th, 2018. As part of the France-Singapore Innovation Year, he met with President Jacques Biot and visited the Drahi X – Novation Center.

On March 10, entrepreneurs, investors and political figures gathered on the campus of l'X to promote entrepreneurship in Africa. Oussama Ourahou, President of the association X-Afrique which organizes the Forum, assesses this third edition which welcomed nearly 700 participants.

In the context of the International Women’s Day, on March 8, École Polytechnique highlights the diversity of women working and studying at l’X. Here are the experiences of some students enrolled in different academic programs: Katherine from Bolivia, Jin from Korea and Sabrina from Italy.

L'X and the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) have renewed their research and development partnership in data sciences. This collaboration, which began at the end of 2014, has already led to new approaches of the Sniiram data use, the health database that compiles all healthcare reimbursement data in France.