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Education and career
Picard grew up in Montreal, Canada.[1] He attended Polytechnique Montréal, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and engineering in 1994, and later a Master of Science degree in engineering in 1997.[2] He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Neuchâtel in 2000, before going to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for postdoctoral research in digital watermarking, focusing on the problem of securing products and documents against counterfeiting.[3]During his PhD, Picard applied probabilistic argumentation systems to information retrieval systems.[4]
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^Smets, Philippe (23 January 2013). "Practical Uses of Belief Functions". Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1999): 612–621. arXiv:1301.6741. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
