As part of an official visit to France, Mikael Damberg, Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, was at l’X on May 24th, 2018. He met with Jacques Biot, President of École Polytechnique, and Frank Pacard, Provost. He visited the Fujitsu Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence.

École Polytechnique stands out of 10,000 institutions according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Ranking published on May 29, 2018.

On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, l’X and Enedis signed a partnership on artificial intelligence.

Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi announced a new collaboration project with École Polytechnique to endow the International Academic and Research Chair “Integrated Urban Mobility”. This follows the launch of Uber’s newest Advanced Technologies Center (ATCP) to be based in Paris.

Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France, joins École Polytechnique to teach cognitive science to the first-year Ingénieur Polytechnicien students. His courses offer an introduction to cognitive science, an area with important social issues.

From June 25 to 29,2018, the Data Science Initiative organizes the second edition of the Data Science Summer School at École Polytechnique in collaboration with the DATAIA institute. The school will be inaugurated by the mathematician Cédric Villani and will propose courses and conferences led by experts in data science and artificial intelligence.