Colloquium de Rocquencourt
"The
Next Four Orders of Magnitude in PDE Simulation Performance"
(David KEYES, Old Dominion University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
NASA Langley Research Center)
June 20, 2000 - Rocquencourt, France
Biggest public-key
crypto crack ever : INRIA leads worldwide Internet-distributed calculation
(april 2000)
INédit N° 23 (March 2000). INédit issue number 23
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Contents: INRIA researchers take up cryptographic challenges - INRIA-Transfert
and regional incubators - A European anthropomorphic biped robot ...
World Wide 1st: IT & Telecom Web Channel on four Networks
EUTELSAT, Canal Web and Cyperus use webcast and digital satellite TV broadcast
solutions to connect TV and PC screens to telecom and IT events
Further Informations
ERCIM 10th Anniversary Events
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1 - 5 November, 1999
A new Manager for ERCIM
During their recent meeting in Bratislava the ERCIM Board of Directors
nominated Jean-Eric
Pin the new Manager of ERCIM. Jean-Eric Pin is a 46 years old director
of research at CNRS, and he currently heads a research team in the LIAFA
(Laboratoire d'Informatique Algorithmique : Fondements et Applications)
from University Paris 7. As a former director of the LIAFA, he is experienced
in research management. He has also gathered knowledge in research transfer
during the two years spent at the IT group Bull and with his activities
as consultant for data compression for the French space agency CNES.
He is well-versed in European programs such as ESPRIT and now IST. Pin
first studied mathematics and then moved to computer science. In 1989,
he received the IBM France Scientific Prize in Computer Science for
his work in automata theory.
"I would like to thank ERCIM for the trust it puts in me. I am very
enthusiastic about joining ERCIM and I hope to prove equal to this challenging
new task. I am especially delighted to have to celebrate an anniversary
so early after being nominated! It is not only an exciting festivity,
but also a unique opportunity for our consortium to become an unavoidable
entity at the European level. So, don't forget to tell your friends,
your colleagues, and your industrial partners about that very special
event that will take place in Amsterdam at the beginning of November.
This anniversary is going to be a very rich event, both internally and
externally, and I am sure that everybody is ready to help for its success!"
Jean Eric Pin
Three new start-up companies
Electronic commerce : LiquidMarket
Dr. Francois Rouaix senior researcher in the Cristal group, departs
INRIA after 8 years of service to assume responsibilities as Chief Technology
Officer of LiquidMarket, Inc.LiquidMarket is based in Los Angeles, California
and was founded by Dr. Rouaix and compatriot Gauthier Groult to apply
next-generation search engine technology to electronic commerce.
INRIA has exclusively licensed to LiquidMarket advanced Internet crawling
and indexing technology developed by Dr. Rouaix.LiquidMarket will commercialize
the INRIA technology to deliver a suite of electronic commerce applications.
Bioinformatics: Gene-IT,
Gene-IT was founded in January 1998 by Jean-Jacques Codani and
Eric Glémet. The goal of the company is to design products and technology
in bioinformatics for the pharmaceutical industry. The basic technology
is LASSAP, a nucleic and proteinic sequence comparison software developed
at INRIA Rocquencourt by researchers from the Génome initiative.
Gene-IT participates in two Biotech European programs, in the framework
of a collaboration between the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute),
the University of Geneva and INRIA. The EBI manages one of the two largest
gene banks in the world and uses LASSAP to develop managing tools for
its databases. On the commercial side, Gene-IT and the Génoscope
Sequencing National Center in Evry are partners.
http://www.gene-it.com
Contact: Jean-Jacques Codani and Eric Glémet, Gene-IT
Tel: +33 1 39 63 52 48 or 50 77 - gene-it@inria.fr
Ergonomics: NOVADIS Services
NOVADIS Services, created in october 1998, is a service contractor in
ergonomics and aid in innovative product design. Its specialty resides
in adapting the tools (ICNT*, automatic control, service, etc.) to the
occupation of the user.
The knowhow is stem from the action AIRELLE,
(INRIA Rhône-Alpes research unit) and MultiCom, a company that
depends on the University.
* Information and Communication New Technologies
Contact: Luc Rodet
Tel: +33 4 76 44 52 26 - luc.rodet@imag.fr
or novadis@novadis-services.com
23/11/98 - Olivier Faugeras, Research
Director at the National Institute of Research in Computer Sciences
and Automation (INRIA) elected member of the French Academy
of Science
Matthias Grossglauer at INRIA's RODEO research team is the clear
winner of the 1998 Cor Baayen Award competition. The 5000 ECU award
was presented during the ERCIM Meetings on the 5th of November in
Chilton, UK by the ERCIM President, Gerard van Oortmerssen. The Cor
Baayen award was created to honour the first ERCIM President and is
given each year to a promising young researcher working in one of
the ERCIM institutes.
The french group called «la route automatisée»
has now its own web site
(
http://www.lara.prd.fr/) La route
automatisée is a large French R&D program to develop and experiment
new technologies for road transportation.
Four INRIA scientists in a row receive
awards for their achievements
The World Wide Web
Consortium Issues SMIL 1.0 (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)
as a W3C Recommendation - (June 1998)
Founding the REALiZ (REALViZ) company
with INRIA-Transfert support (April 1998)
The World Wide Web
Consortium issues MathML as a W3C recommendation (April 1998) (access
to the W3C's Web site)
The
Importance of Software in Space Technology
Pcache:
Improving the Availability of Servers on a Network
INRIA's
Contractual Relations in 1997
