Birth of the DATA Lab at EPFL

From the viewpoint of EPFL, each faculty member is an organizational unit called a lab. Unfortunately, our personal names are not acceptable to EPFL, so we have to make up an English name, a French name, and an acronym for the lab, describing what we plan to do.

This is not so easy. (How do you translate "data-driven" to French -- I can't even translate it to German.) The suggestion I finally came up with after many months of hard thinking (mostly about other things though) has just been approved by the EPFL administration.

DATA, enchanté!