December
12/23/05
New research project-team:
ASCLEPIOS:
Analysis and Simulation of Biomedical Images.
12/19/05
Computational grids:
A new success story in combinatorial optimization
thanks to
the OPAC team and the DOLPHIN project. For
more information.
12/16/05
François Baccelli elected member of the French Academy
of Science:
François Baccelli is a Senior Research Scientist at INRIA and a
renowned scientist in the modeling of networks and distributed systems.
He was elected member of the French Academy of Science. He joins
the computer scientists Gilles Kahn, Olivier Faugeras, Gérard Huet,
Philippe Flajolet and Gérard Berry, which enlarges the research
fields in computer science represented in this institution. Discover
his career.
12/16/05
New research project-teams:
- DOLPHIN : Optimisation
multi-critère parallèle coopérative
- PHOENIX: Programming
Language Technology For Communication Services
- PROVAL: Proofs of programs
12/15/05
Agenda:
Video
games and virtuel reality:
workshop on the new kinds of video games (Musée des arts et métiers,
Paris, France - 12.22.2005).
12/13/05
Agenda:
Vers l'ordinateur quantique
? Workshop on the Processing and communication of quantum information
(INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France - Decembre 15, 2005).
12/12/05
2006 Researchers recruitment:
INRIA is recruiting experienced research scientists (CR1). Official
opening of the competitive selection: December 12, 2005.
12/08/05
Collaboration:
On last October 14, INRIA
signed the founding agreement of Num@tec Automotive in order to increase
the innovation potential and the competitiveness of the automotive industry (in french).
12/07/05
CD-ROM:
Scilab in the colleges. Discover
the computation software in scientific classes (in
french).
12/06/05
Rose Dieng-Kuntz has just been awarded the 2005 Irène Joliot-Curie
Prize:
Rose Dieng-Kuntz is the 2005 Irène Joliot-Curie Prizewinner.
This prize is awarded to a woman for her career and her contribution
to science by the French Ministry for Research and the EADS group.
Rose Dieng-Kuntz, an INRIA senior research scientist, is the
leader of the project ACACIA at
the Sophia-Antipolis research unit.
Discover her career.
November
11/30/05
Agenda:
Presentation
of the work being done in POEMS project, on December 8 at INRIA Rocquencourt,
France.
11/30/05
New research project-teams:
- ASPI: Applications of interacting particle systems to statistics
- VISAGES: Vision, action
and information management system in health
11/28/05
Recruitment:
2006 Campaign: Consult
the preliminary schedule.
11/24/05
Open Archive:
JP Verjus, Director for Scientific Information and Communication, introduced
Hal
at the World Summit on the Information Society during a round table
session "knowledge dissemination, numerical media and networks".
11/23/05
To read:
"JL Lions, un mathématicien
d'exception". Homage to the man, the scientist, the politician
who laid its foundations of our institute. He was Chairman of INRIA from
1980 to 1984.
11/23/05
INRIA at Super Computing 2005:
INRIA participated in Super Computing 2005, which took place in Seattle
from November 12 to 18. On the occasion of the foremost international conference
for computing grids, eight of our teams and project-teams presented their
work and many demonstrations from the Rennes, Rhône-Alpes, Sophia
Antipolis and Futurs research units.
Relive this event with our researchers.
11/21/05
Press realease:
Medience, "Born
of INRIA" start-up, joins the world's leading BI software
company, Business Objects (in french).
11/17/05
Partnership:
INRIA and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology have just signed a
memorandum
of understanding between Objectweb and Orientware to promote the adoption of open-source middleware in China.
11/10/05
INédit:
Open archive, IP telephony, visual servoing... Discover this topics
in INédit
51.
11/10/05
Special Feature : Standardization
Many of the technologies that we use on a daily basis are in fact based
on standards that are subject to a broad consensus generally on a global
level. Discover the INRIA research teams who have contributed to these
standards with several industrial and academic partners within international
organization for standardization and normalization.
More
in our special feature...
11/09/05
Scilab Toolbox Contest in Japan:
INRIA and the Japanese National Institute of Informatics organize a
Scilab
Toolbox Contest for Japanese and no Japanese students living in Japan.
11/08/05
To read:
Go exploring the digital
sciences in our booklet made in collaboration with the review Phosphore.
11/04/05
Visual Servoing: an INRIA speciality:
Around fifteen years ago, François Chaumette, Bernard
Espiau and Patrick Rives laid the foundations for a new concept: visual
servoing. Together with twenty or so other research scientists - including
Ezio Malis and Eric Marchand, they have today formed a veritable French
faction, known as Made in INRIA, which has achieved international renown.
More in INédit 51...
October
10/26/05
Open Archive:
INRIA offers HAL-INRIA for self-archiving and access to scientific publications
produced by its research teams. More
information...
10/21/05
Large-scale Initiative Action:
Discover CardioSense3D,
the first Large-scale Initiative
Action initiated by the COST.
10/20/05
Distinction:
David Guiraud (project DEMAR)
was awarded the 2005
CNRS bronze medal for the Communication and Information
Science and Technology Department.
10/19/05
New research project-team:
CLIME: coupling
environmental data and simulation models for software integration.
10/18/05
Press release:
INRIA's research units celebrate
20 years of creating innovative technology companies.
10/13/05
Prize "Science et Défense" 2004:
Philippe Jacquet and Paul Mühlethaler (project HIPERCOM)
have just received the
prize "Science
et Défense" 2004 in the field of wirless networks and
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
10/10/05
Anniversary:
IRISA celebrates its 30th Anniversary and 25 years of INRIA's presence
in Rennes
from October 10th to
16th .
10/10/05
INRIA celebrates Science until 16
october:
On the occasion of the 14th Science Fair, INRIA offers the general
public an opportunity to meet its research scientists, engineers and
technicians working in the Information and Communication Science and
Technology (ICST) field.
Come to meet them and discover their activities, knowledge, and professions, from
October 10-16 throughout France. Consult the program.
10/07/05
Press release:
Brazilian
technology on show at INRIA.
10/07/05
Participating in the European programs:
Excellent results for INRIA in the 4th call for proposals of
the FP6 "Information Society Technologies (IST)" priority. More
information...
10/05/05
Collaboration agreement:
INRIA and INRA have made official and have increased their collaboration in the
field of the life sciences. More
information... (in french).
10/03/05
2005: IRISA celebrates its 30th Anniversary and 25
years of INRIA's presence in Rennes:
IRISA invites you from October 10th to 16th to take part in the various
activities organized on the subject of research in the area of Information
and Communication Science and Technology for celebration its 30th Anniversary
and 25 years of INRIA Rennes.
Discover the program: colloquium, conferences, shows. More
information... (in french).
10/03/05
Cooperative Research Initiatives:
Call for proposals for 2006-2007 CRI.
September
09/27/05
Recruitment:
A
Software Engineer -
Project-Team IMARA - INRIA Rocquencourt Research Unit.
09/23/05
New research project-team:
REGAL: Resources management
in large scale distributed systems.
09/22/05
Agenda:
- Euler
Diagrams 2005: Workshop on the construction and the use of Euler diagrams
(September 29-30, 2005, INA- Paris, France).
- Grids@work: Middleware,
Components, Users, Contest and Plugtests
(October 10-14, 2005, Sophia-Antipolis, France).
09/13/05
New research project-team:
VEGAS: Effective Geometric
Algorithms for Surfaces and Visibility.
09/08/05
Initiative:
ObjectWeb
participates in NESSI, an European technology platform, as founding member.
09/05/05
Agenda:
09/01/05
Launch of the Numerical Mathematics Consortium:
August 9th in Austin (Texas), INRIA (host of the Scilab Consortium),
Maplesoft, Mathsoft and National Instruments launched Numerical Mathematics
Consortium (NMC)
The four founding companies established the organization to create a standard
specification for numeric mathematics that ensures algorithm portability
and reuse across platforms and applications. More
information...
August
08/29/05
Agenda:
CEA-EDF-INRIA
Schools: Flow
in unsaturated porous media: mathematical and numerical aspects
(September 12-15, 2005, INRIA Rocquencourt).
08/19/05
Agenda:
CAIP'05 (11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images
and Patterns) will be held on September 5-8, 2005, INRIA Rocquencourt.
July
07/28/05
Special Feature: Model the living structures:
INRIA is completing its overview of modeling in the broad field of the life
sciences with a special
feature presenting such varied research areas as ecosystem
conservation, natural resource management improvement, understanding of epidemics,
gene regulation networks in bacteria, observation of animal motions and the study
of molecular behavior.
In our previous features, the research presented concerned what modeling contributes
to the understanding of the human organism, progress in medicine and bioinformatics
research.
07/28/05
Agenda:
The ECSCW'05 conference
(9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) will
be held on September 18-22, 2005 in Paris.
07/26/05
Agenda:
The 2nd OLSR
Interop & Workshop on Optimized Link State Routing Protocol will show
the
results of the project HIPERCOM (July
28-29, 2005 - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris).
07/15/05
Multidisciplinary Research Initiative:
The results of the
call
for bids "Health: Information
and Technology" launched by CNRS, INRIA and INSERM are available.
07/13/05
Press release:
INRIA among the main Competitiveness Centers
selected.
07/12/05
Alain Dervieux, Marcel Dassault Prizewinner:
The Academy
of Sciences awarded the 2005 Marcel Dassault Grand Prize to Alain
Dervieux for the quality of his work. Alain Dervieux is an INRIA senior
research scientist with project TROPICS who
specializes in computational fluid mechanics. He is the inventor of
the finite element-volume method.
The Academy of Sciences also awarded the Michel
Montpetit Prize to Pierre Comon and the Jacques-Louis
Lions Prize to Jean-Claude Nédélec, both senior research scientists
at CNRS.
07/07/05
Press release:
LibreSource, cooperative platform.
07/01/05
Grid challenges:
Computing grids are hardware and software infrastructures that meet the
ever growing needs in computing power and storage, as well as collaboration
over the Internet. The potentially revolutionary concept of computing
grids has been developing for seven or eight years. More
information in INédit 50.
Result: a world record in computing beaten at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Press
release.
07/01/05
Colloquium Irisa's 30th and Inria-Rennes 25th birthday:
Two
days of scientific workshops to celebrate these two anniversaries.
June
06/30/05
7th national company creation aid competition:
Discover the 3 projects
using technology stemming from INRIA, prizewinners of the competition.
06/30/05
Press release:
Grid Computing: France
holds a new computing world record.
06/30/05
New research project-team:
POEMS: Wave propagation:
mathematical analysis and simulation
06/23/05
Nomination:
Jérôme
Chailloux, old senior research scientist at INRIA, has just
been named ERCIM Manager. The ERCIM consortium is co-founded by INRIA
and houses W3C Europe. The ERCIM Office
and W3C Europe are located at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Research Unit.
06/23/05
Recruitment:
Competitive selection: List of final candidates for junior
research scientists (CR2) and senior
research scientists (DR2).
06/16/05
Press release:
Digital
tools for better use of Archives.
06/15/05
New research project-team:
- SAGE: Simulations and Algorithms
on Grids for Environment.
- SISTHEM: Statistical Inference
for STructural HEalth Monitoring.
06/13/05
Recruitment:
Competitive selection senior research scientists CR2:
Consult
the qualified candidates.
06/08/05
Obituary for Manuel Bronstein:
It is with deep sorrow that INRIA has
learned Manuel Bronstein's death on the night June 5-6.
Internationally known for his work and a Research Director at
INRIA since 1997, he created and directed the research project-team CAFE. More
information.
06/07/05
Zoom: the image festival:
In 2005, the 32th Siggraph will
take place in Los Angeles from July 31 to August 4. Research scientists and industry
working on image all meet there. An
interview with Stéphane Donikian, scientific coordinator of the INRIA
booth.
06/02/05
Post-doc campaign:
List
of the selected candidates funded by the Ministry of Research.
May
05/30/05
Press release:
CEA, CNRS and INRIA announce version 2 of their free software license
CeCILL .
05/27/05
Virtual growth to grow well:
The Franco-Chinese department of computer science, automatic control
and mathematics, LIAMA, hosts
the DIGIPLANTE team specializing in plant growth dynamic modeling.
Their objective is to create a computer aided decision tool capable
of optimizing cultivation practices. More
information in INédit 49.
05/27/05
New research project team:
REO: Numerical simulation
of biological flows.
05/26/05
W3C celebrates 10
years leading the Web in Europe:
On the occasion of the W3C 10th anniversary celebration, W3C, INRIA and ERCIM
organize "W3C10
Europe" on June 3, at CERAM (Sophia Antipolis, France). The program
emphasizes two themes:
the Web as a unifying force in Europe, and the policies that shape the role
of the Web in the daily
lives of Europeans. Program.
05/19/05
INRIA technology at the heart of next generation video games:
INRIA and Eden Games, a subsidiary of the Infogramme/ATARI
group, have signed an agreement for the use of an INRIA technology
to optimize sound simulation in the game engine developed
by Eden for next generation game consoles. "Test Drive Unlimited" is
the first game that integrates this technology. The game was
presented at the moment at the largest video game trade show
worldwide, E3 in Los Angeles. The
press release.
05/19/05
20 years of creation of start-ups:
Watch the movie "Innovation
creators",
relating the adventure of the technology transfer through creation of start-ups
at INRIA.
05/18/05
Record:
Using GMP-ECM, software partly developed at INRIA, a new
factorization record based on the Elliptic Curve Method (ECM) has
just been established
by Bruce
Dodson (Lehigh University - Pennsylvania). He found a 66-digit prime factor
of the number 3466 + 1, the factorization of which is now done. More
information...
05/18/05
Press release:
INRIA and GMRC to
expand Sino-France collaboration on advanced software technologies.
05/17/05
Prize:
Project LEAR won
14 of the 18 challenges
of the "101
Visual Object Classes Challenge" in the framework of the PASCAL excellence
network. The purpose of the competition was to evaluate object recognition
techniques, especially image classification and object location tasks.
05/17/05
Event:
Eden Games, a studio of Infogrames/ATARI, has chosen an INRIA technology
to bring auditory realism to news heights in its video games. More
information.
05/12/05
Recruitment:
Competitive selection senior research scientists DR2:
Consult the qualified candidates
05/11/05
Direct flight for simulation:
To directly translate the work of Airbus aeronautics engineers into
digital simulators to accelerate aircraft design is the feat about
to be performed by the physical
model editor designed by Yves Papegay of the COPRIN team. More
information in
INédit 49.
05/10/05
Consortium CAML:
Microsoft Research joins le Caml Consortium. The company uses the OCaml language
for SDV (Static Driver Verifier) and takes it as an example for its language
F#. More
information. (in french).
05/03/05
Event:
A promissing example of collaboration between INRIA and Microsoft Research:
The four color theorem entirely proved by computer.
05/02/05
Event:
The ORION team welcomes the Professor Bob
Fisher from May to September.
05/02/05
Publication:
Consult the 2004 annual
report (in french)
April
04/29/05
Recruitment:
Competitive selection junior research scientists CR2:
Consult
the schedule of the hearings sections.
04/26/05
Press release:
INRIA and Microsoft to Establish
New Institute for Computational Science in France.
04/20/05
New research project teams:
- IPSO: Invariant
Preserving Solvers.
- RUNTIME:
Efficient runtime systems for parallel architectures.
- SIGNES: Linguistic
signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language.
- TAO: Machine
Learning and Optimisation.
04/20/05
Twenty years of company creation:
"Born of INRIA" is a label meant to let companies stemming
from INRIA proclaim their association with a scientific community
recognized worldwide and their capacity to remain at the leading
edge of technological innovation. With the logo, they can benefit
from enhanced credibility on the part of their prospects, clients
and financial backers. For
more information.
04/20/05
Prize:
As INRIA has celebrated its twenty years of technology start-ups,
Jean-François Abramatic, an INRIA research scientist then
an entrepreneur (Ilog), has just received the "Information
Society Promoter” award organized by ENST Paris. We are pleased
to offer him our congratulations. For
more information.
04/19/05
Twenty years of company creation:
In this evening, at the Maison des Arts et Métiers in Paris,
INRIA will celebrate twenty years of company creation with 300
actors of the economic and new technology sectors: political decision
makers, among which the Minister for Industry and the Minister
for Research, research scientsits from INRIA and its partners,
entrepreneurs and venture capital professionals. The goal of the
night is to exchange views on the ways of fostering value creation
by supporting startup growth. For
more information.
04/19/05
Press:
Press release: INRIA fosters
the creation and development of innovative companies by launching
the "Born of INRIA" label - April 19, 2005.
04/19/05
Scientific Event:
LACL 2005 : Fifth International Conference on Logical
Aspects of Computational Linguistics (April 28-29-30, 2005,
Bordeaux).
04/12/05
Publication:
One of INRIA's seven scientific challenges is to fully integrate
ICST in medical technology. Nicholas Ayache and Hervé Delinguette obtained
a very nice result that illustrates this type of challenge. They
have developed a minimally invasive surgery simulator transferred
in a clinical environment and described in an article published
by the CACM journal. For
more information.
March
03/29/05
Following Isabelle Attali's death in the tragic
events which devastated the Southeast Asia on December 26th, INRIA
and the Sophia Antipolis foundation have decided to create a fund
to facilitate exchanges between Sri Lankan and French researchers
in the field of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies. More
information...
03/24/05
Competitive selection junior research scientists CR2:
Consult the
schedule of the hearings sections.
03/23/05
Consortium Scilab:
Klippel GmbH and the Ecole Polytechnique join the Scilab Consortium
thus changing to 16 the number of members. These new memberships
confirm both the policy of excellence and the European involvement
of the Scilab Consortium. See
details...
03/23/05
Press release:
CNRS, INSERM, INRA and INRIA are taking advantage of their respective
characteristics to create institutional
repositories for researchers.
03/22/05
Obituary:
Director of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
(FORTH), Professor Stelios
Orphanoudakis passed away on March 18, 2005. In 2004, he was
the President of ERCIM. INRIA
shares in homage to his memory along with the entire scientific
community.
03/21/05
Press release:
An IRISA/INRIA Rennes proposal to European industry: Test your
products for IPv6 certification.
03/18/05
It is with deep sorrow that we have received confirmation of the
death of our colleague Isabelle Attali and her
sons, Tom and Ugo, in the Tsunami
of 25-26 December, 2004. We offer our sincere and heartfelt sympathy
to her family and to her companion Denis Caromel, member of OASIS
project team.
03/17/05
New research project-team:
LAGADIC: Visual
servoing in robotics, computer vision, and augmented reality.
03/15/05
Calendar:
The IEEE INFOCOM conference is a major conference on computer
communications and networking. The IEEE
INFOCOM 2005 conference (24th edition) is held in Miami, Florida,
from March 13 to March 17, 2005. This year, INRIA project-teams
(MAESTRO, MASCOTTE, PLANETE, TREC)
are involved in 14
papers.
03/07/05
Post-doc campaign:
INRIA proposes 120
one year post-doctoral positions for young graduates. Application
deadline: April 22, 2005.
Last days to apply for the competitive selection junior
research scientists (Chargés de recherche 2ème
classe) and senior
research scientists (Directeurs de recherche 2ème classe).
Deadline for requesting application forms: March 9, 2005.
February
03/02/05
The 2004 activity report is on line:
The 2004 activity report of the INRIA research teams and projects-teams
shows a sustained scientific production, a creation of new research
teams, especially at INRIA Futurs
Research Unit, along with our academic partners at Bordeaux,
Lille and Saclay. Consult the activity
report.
03/02/05
Calendar:
CASSIS
05: Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure and Interoperable
Smart devices. The conference addresses the topic of security
and analysis of smart devices. (March 8-9, 2005, Nice, France).
02/23/05
Proposals:
2005 call for LIAMA
Seed Project Proposals will remain open until April 15th,
2005.
02/22/05
Cooperative Research Initiatives:
Discover the cooperative
initiatives accepted for 2005-2006.
02/22/05
Event:
Professor Yousef
Saad of the University
of Minnesota is a world expert in the field of iterative
methods. He is invited
by project SCALAPPLIX in Bordeaux (INRIA
Futurs) from February 28 to March 12, 2005.
02/21/05
2005 Campaign - Research Scientists:
INRIA is recruiting 17
Junior research scientists (Chargés de recherche 2ème
classe) and 8
Senior research scientists (Directeurs de recherche 2ème
classe). Deadline for requesting application forms: March 9,
2005.
Our offers for
engineers (in French) (02/21/05).
02/17/05
New research project-team:
APICS: Analysis
and Problems of Inverse type in Control and Signal processing.
02/04/05
Calendar:
Technological watch: Worldwide experts take stock of prospects
in ambient computing (digital ubiquity) and its sensor networks.
March 15, 2005, INRIA Rennes - registration.
02/10/05
Recruitment:
INRIA is recruiting 17
Junior research scientists (Chargé de recherche 2ème
classe) and 8
Senior research scientists (Directeur de recherche 2ème
classe). Deadline for requesting application forms: March 9,
2005.
02/10/05
Press release:
France becomes one of the world
leaders in research on computing grids with GRID 5000.
02/08/05
Hubert Curien passed away February 6, 2005:
Minister of Research from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993,
Hubert Curien passed away February 6, 2005. During its mandate
of President of the CNES, he was appointed Chairman of the Scientific
Council of INRIA from 1980 to 1984. A close colleague of Jacques-Louis
Lions, Hubert Curien was unremitting in his support of the Institute.
INRIA and the entire scientific community presents its condolences
to his family and honors his memory.
02/04/05
Gilles Dowek, knowledge sharer:
Gilles Dowek teaches at the Ecole Polytechnique and is an INRIA
research scientist, but that is not all. With books for the general
public, conferences, mathematics workshops in high schools, radio
and TV shows, he also is on all fronts of popularization. A meeting
with a mathematician and computer scientist.
More information in INédit
47.
January
01/31/05
Nomination:
Vincent Quint, Senior Research scientist at INRIA, Co-Chair of
the W3C "Technical Architecture
Group" (TAG) as of February 1, 2005. His
portrait.
01/31/05
Agenda:
Meet the projects PARIS and WAM as
well as the ObjectWeb and Scilab consortia
at Linux Solutions
Show - February 1-3, 2005 - Paris.
01/31/05
Press release:
INRIA at the first « Tremplin
Recherche », organized by the Senate.
01/31/05
Press release:
AMAYA, a web page editor for
everyone.
01/21/05
Neuroscience: Joint progress with algorithmics
Image processing, scientific computing and brain function modeling
methods contribute to the advance in the understanding of the nervous
system. Various INRIA teams participate in this common effort thanks
to close collaborations with neurophysiologists. Read
more.
01/14/05
Research:
City planning in the era of vitual reality
The Create European project was launched in 2001 with the objective
of developing realistic and interactive virtual environments
for design, education and cultural heritage. The project-team
REVES also significantly contributed to it. More information
in INédit 47...
01/13/05
Recruitment:
ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) invites
applications for the position of Manager.
01/13/05
Multidisciplinary Research Initiative:
CNRS, INRIA and INSERM are launching a joint call for bids for
the creation of highly innovative projects in the field of "Health:
Information and Technology".
01/07/05
Agenda:
12th
INRIA-Industry meeting : Combining Computation, Visualization
and Interaction for 3D Design and Simulation (February 1, 2005,
Rocquencourt, France). The state of the art and potentialities
of the latest advances in the merger of these fields.
01/04/05
Nominations:
Christine d'Argouges, Jean Vuillemin and Marc
Berthod have been named Deputy Managing Director, Scientific
Director and Deputy Scientific Director of INRIA respectively
as of January 3, 2005. More information...
01/04/05
Nomination:
Jean-Pierre Verjus has been appointed in Charge of Training through
Research.
01/03/05
Happy New Year 2005:
Greetings and Best whishes for
the New Year from INRIA.
