December
12/30/06
Inauguration:
On 11 January 2007, in Orsay inauguration of the joint INRIA-Microsoft Research
laboratory. More...
12/29/06
Agenda:
A lecture series "le
modèle et l'algorithme": The nature of Invention in Computer
science - a collaborative reflexion for the scientific community, will
be held on 10 January at INRIA Rocquencourt (France).
12/21/06
Premia, a truly original approach in the financial sector:
The Premia consortium was built around the MATHFI project-team and is the first large-scale consortium in the field of financial mathematics. Today it constitutes a group that simply cannot be ignored by players in the banking and financial field or by French editors specialised in financial software. Find out more about it with an interview in INédit 57 with Jean-Joseph Osty, Quantitative Research Department at Natixis.
12/21/06
Distinctions:
Benoît Perthame (project BANG) and Yves Robert (project GRAAL) have been appointed senior members at the Institut Universitaire de France.
12/19/06
Press release:
INRIA's computer science technology
goes to the movies!
12/15/06
Competitive selection process for researchers:
- Official opening of the competitive selection of Junior research scientists (CR2) on December 15, 2006. Deadline for requesting application forms: February 12, 2007.
- Official opening of the competitive selection of Experienced research scientists (CR1) on December 15, 2006. Deadline for requesting application forms: February 12, 2007.
- Official opening of the competitive selection of Senior research scientists (DR2) on December 15, 2006. Deadline for requesting application forms: February 12, 2007.
12/13/06
Press release:
Top prizes awarded to Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Nicholas Ayache by the EADS Corporate Research Foundation.
12/11/06
The "Rendez-vous de l'INRIA":
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media,
will be present at a round table organised by INRIA on 20 December
in Brussels. The
debate will bring together many of INRIA's institutional and industrial
partners and European project coordinators. Debate subject? ICST research
is a driving force behind European economic development and how to define
a “European
Model” for technology transfers and competitive innovation. Jerzy Buzek,
FP7 rapporteur will present his thoughts on the subject
and close the debate. Michel Cosnard, INRIA Chairman and CEO,
will sign the European Charter for Researchers with Viviane Reding. More...
12/06/06
Agenda:
INRIA will be present at the exhibition dedicated to the recruitment of engineers and scientists (CNIT Paris la Défense from December 12 to 13). More...
12/07/06
Recruitment:
INRIA will recruit 29 junior research scientists (CR2), 4 experienced research scientists (CR1) and 13 senior research scientists (DR2) from December 15, 2006.
12/06/06
Ceremony:
INRIA and SMAI are organizing under the patronage
of the Academy of Science a reception held in honour of the 2006
prize-winners in information technology and applied mathematics (December
18, Paris). More...
12/06/06
Anniversary:
INRIA Lorraine celebrates its 20th Anniversary on December 12 in Nancy.More...
12/01/06
Agenda:
Bertrand Thirion (INRIA Futurs and Neurospin) will debate the theme 'can we see the brain think?' in a science bar in Meudon on December 7. More...
November
11/30/06
Modelling complexity with simplicity:
INRIA is coordinating the Siconos consortium
that brings together some eighty researchers from thirteen European countries.
This consortium develops simple and reliable models for the analysis, control
and numerical simulation of the physical phenomena at work in a mechanical
or electrical system, for example. More
in INedit 56.
11/28/06
Colloquium in memory of Gilles Kahn:
Friends and colleagues of Gilles Kahn, who passed away in February 2006,
plan to meet on 12 January 2007 at the Maison des Arts et Métiers
in Paris. They will commemorate his friendship
and his leadership at INRIA and in the scientific community. More...
11/23/06
MoGo, champion program for Go games:
MoGo was developed in collaboration with the Ecole Polytechnique's Centre for Applied Mathematics as part of the TAO project at INRIA Futurs. Since August 2006 it has been consistently ranked number 1 among 142 programmes on the Computer Go Server. MoGo is currently one of the very best virtual Go players. This Go program is second-to-none - it recently swept the board at the international KGS tournament held in October and November 2006 for 9x9 and 13x13 games. More...
11/22/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection
process for
research support positions: first results of the qualified candidates (in French).
11/22/06
New project-team:
MARELLE:
Mathematical, Reasoning and Software.
11/14/06
Event:
INRIA will host the group of open source software
developers for IP telephony (ToIP) Asterisk. (November 20-22, 2006,
Rocquencourt, France). More...
11/13/06
INRIA at Supercomputing 2006:
Our researchers are presenting their work and many demonstrations at
the foremost international conference for computing grids (November 11-17,
Tampa). More...
11/08/06
Hervé Mathieu appointed as Delegate General for Resource and Service Administration:
Hervé Mathieu has been
appointed as Delegate General for Resource and Service Administration. Until now, he was Special Advisor to the President, responsible for the organisation of INRIA
support services. Engineer from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Hervé Mathieu
was Director for Research of ENPC,
then, from 1996 to 2004 he was Deputy Managing Director of INRIA, before
taking up the functions of Secretary General and Director of Human Resources
at CNRS. More...
11/08/06
Appointments:
Sylvane Casademont and Jean-Pierre Banâtre have been named as Director of Communications and Director of European Partnerships.
11/08/06
INédit 56:
Europe is worth the challenge! - Modelling complexity with simplicity - European paediatric platform... More information in INédit.
11/06/06
Agenda:
LORIA will introduce the members of Incentive Initiatives in the field of ICST during the PaRISTIC Days (November 22-24 in Nancy).
October
10/31/06
3rd Grid@work & Grid Contest 2006:
INRIA, ETSI and the European project CoreGRID are inviting all computing grid
players to join them in Sophia Antipolis
from 27 November to 1 December. More...
10/31/06
Bilateral collaborations: recognizing graphic symbols:
QGAR project-team in
Nancy and the Computer Vision Center (CVC) at the Autonomous University
of Barcelona have been working together for nearly ten years on graphic
symbols recognition in data bases in which large documents are stored.
Together they form the associate team Symbolrec.
Interview with Karl Tombre, head of QGAR project-team in
INédit 56.
10/27/06
Agenda:
The CEA-EDF-INRIA School on the high
performance scientific computing: algorithms, software tools and
applications will be held on 6-9 November at INRIA Rocquencourt
(France).
10/26/06
New project-team:
CACAO: Curves, Algebra, Computer Arithmetic, and so On
10/24/06
INRIA at EuroBio 2006, October 25 - 27 in Paris:
As part of EuroBio
2006, the tenth European Biotech Crossroads, INRIA
is organizing a round table entitled "Data Integration, knowledge Management
and Modelling in the Life Sciences". European scientists and industrial
players are attending to debate this issue. INRIA is also involved in
the exhibition with 5 dynamic companies from the bio-industry that specialise
in information processing. More...
10/23/06
French Academy of Science Awards:
Serge Piperno and Frédéric Boyer award-winners for prizes in the fields of information technology and applied mathematics
Serge Piperno (member of the CAIMAN project-team) and Frédéric Boyer (Ecole des Mines in Nantes) are among the Academy of Science 2006 award-winners, receiving the Blaise Pascal and Monpetit awards respectively. Both awards were founded by INRIA and GAMNI-Smai. More...
10/18/06
Appointment:
Karl Tombre (head of the project QGAR) has been named as Chairman of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition). More...
10/18/06
Prize:
The project IPARLA received the Guenter Enderle Award for the Best Paper and the Best Student Paper Award at Eurographics 2006 for the same paper. More...
10/13/06
Competitive selection process for research support positions:
17 positions must be filled (in French). Deadline for requesting application forms: November 10.
10/11/06
Prize:
Philippe de Reffye (team DIGIPLANTE)
has received the "2006 Friendship Award". More...
10/10/06
Competitive selection process for research support positions:
Opening external
selection on October 13, 2006 (in French).
10/10/06
Press release:
Creation of a common repository for scientific publications.
10/09/06
Cooperative Research Initiatives:
The call for proposals for 2006-2007 CRI is open. More...
10/06/06
INRIA celebrates Science until October 15:
On the occasion of the 15th 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 9-15 throughout France. Consult
the program.
10/04/06
Prospective seminar of the COST dedicated to Nanotechnologies:
INRIA Rhône-Alpes is presenting on Friday October 6 the latest seminar of the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council. Jean-Louis Pautrat and Hervé Fanet, researchers at CEA Grenoble, will introduce the nanotechnologies for today and tomorrow and their impact on software and architectures. Click here if you wish to attend the seminar (in Montbonnot or on live on the web).
10/02/06
Cooperative Research Initiatives:
The first Cooperative
Research Initiatives national day will be held at INRIA Rhône-Alpes
(October 17-18). Last days for registration.
September
09/29/06
Official launch of the laboratory Digiteo Labs on October 4,
2006:
INRIA has pooled the expertise of CNRS, SUPELEC, the École Polytechnique
and the University of Paris Sud-XI by signing a
Digiteo Labs agreement. Launched officially on October 4, 2006, Digiteo
Labs, located on the
Saclay plateau is the first park of research in sciences and information
technologies in the Île-de-France region. More
information and press
invitation.
09/29/06
Event:
INRIA celebrates science from October 9-15
throughout France. More...
09/29/06
Scientific information:
INRIA launches its new integrated management system. It opens up single and extensive access to the Institute's collection. More...
09/25/06
Appointment:
Antoine Petit has been appointed as director
of the INRIA
Rocquencourt Research Unit. More...
09/21/06
Appointment:
Frédéric Desprez has been appointed director of the Parallel
Computing Research Laboratory. More...
09/20/06
French national authority on prospective research:
Laurent Kott,
in charge of Competitive Clusters at INRIA, and Bernard Larrouturou,
former Chairman and CEO of INRIA, were appointed members at CGTI.
09/19/06
Research under the bright lights:
INRIA Futurs will take part in the Researchers' Night in Lille on September 22. More...
09/19/06
The European Commission launches new grid computing projects: INRIA
bolsters its leadership with the XtreemOS project:
As part of its sixth Framework Programme, the European Commission
is launching a second
wave of projects for the development of grid technologies. Over
20 projects will receive funding totalling €80 million. INRIA,
involved in six of these projects, is affirming its leadership
with the XtreemOS project in particular. More...
09/12/06
New project-team:
MOISE:
Modelling, Observations, Identification for Environmental Sciences.
09/12/06
Prize:
Pierre Alliez (project-team GEOMETRICA)
received the Eurographics
Young Researcher Award 2005 on September 2006.
09/11/06
Commemoration:
Gérard Le Lann (team NOVALTIS)
is the only French scientist to have taken part in the development of the TCP
protocol. More....
09/07/06
Publication:
Discover the special issue Pour la science n° 52,
July 2006, entitled "La
modélisation informatique, exploration du réel" (in
French) created in partnership with Interstices.
09/07/06
Prospective seminar of the COST:
Jean-Louis Pautrat and Hervé Fanet, researchers
at CEA, will present the nanotechnologies
for today and tomorrow on October 6th (INRIA Rhône-Alpes,
Montbonnot).
09/01/06
Jean-Pierre Verjus, the new Deputy Managing Director of INRIA:
Jean-Pierre Verjus has
been appointed as Deputy Managing Director of INRIA. He is a graduate engineer
from Ensimag, a Doctor of Science and a University Professor. Since 1977, Jean-Pierre
Verjus has furthered his influential career at INRIA. He has held posts as
Director of various Research Units, President of the Evaluation Committee and
Director of Scientific Information and Communication. He was also Special
Advisor to the Chairman. Find out more...
09/01/06
Nomination:
Hervé Mathieu has
been appointed as Special Advisor to the Chairman, member of the
general management. More...
August
08/16/06
Better Interpretation and Sharing of Medical Images:
VISAGES, the new INRIA-Inserm joint project-team, combines medical knowledge
and applied mathematics and is devoted to developing decision support
tools that can select the most relevant information from a collection
of images, particularly in the field of head and neck pathologies. The
team’s
approach combines image processing and analysis, as well as computation
and access to data and distributed processing. Find out more in INédit
53.
08/07/06
Light in all its forms:
For many years now the associate team RTR2A has been collaborating closely
with the SIAMES team and the University of Florida's (UCF) Sumanta Pattanaik
team. This associate team develops methods capable of ensuring realistic
real-time rendering and studying global lighting for scenes of average
complexity.
Find out more about it with an
Interview in INédit with Kadi Bouatouch, Professor at the Université de
Rennes 1.
08/01/06
New project-team:
MAGRIT:
Visual Augmentation of Complex Environments.
July
07/28/06
Toward a "Zero Accident" car:
Christian Laugier's project-team, E-MOTION,
specialized in advanced and secure robotized systems, is collaborating
with the automaker Toyota in the domain of driver assistance systems.
A venture that stands out as an example of smooth and effective organisation.
Interview in INédit
n°55 with Hiromichi Yanagihara, Chief Technologist, Executive Advisory
Group of Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA.
07/21/06
INédit:
Discover INRIA's first 12 research projects for 2006.
More...
07/13/06
2005 annual report:
INRIA met with success in several of its research projects in 2005. Five
of its scientists received a major award and one of them was elected to the
Academy of Sciences. The Institute launched the INRIA open archive and organised
prospective investigation by setting up a new scientific investigation and
decision-making structure: the COST. Regarding technological transfers to
industry, 2005 saw INRIA involvement in several competitiveness clusters.
And the Institute celebrated twenty years of company creation. Consult
the 2005 annual report.
07/13/06
"The top 40 French high-tech specialists":
Five people from INRIA (Pierre
Haren, Christian
Huitema, Bernard
Lang, Louis
Monier and Gilles
Kahn) are among those mentioned in the special
40-year anniversary edition of "01 Informatique", which lists
the 40 most outstanding people in the high-tech sector over the last 40
years. More...
07/08/06
Obituary of Alain Deutsch:
It is with deep sorrow that INRIA has learned of Alain Deutsch's death.
Known for his work on the static analysis of programs, he joined INRIA Rocquencourt
in 1993. Alain co-founded the Polyspace Technologies Company, specializing
in the development and marketing of software validation and testing environments.
Alain was a very endearing character, extremely dynamic and always full of
new ideas. More information...
07/06/06
Start-up:
Seven projects stemming from INRIA received awards
at the "Concours national d'aide à la création d'entreprises
de technologies innovantes". More...
07/06/06
Appointment:
Gérard Giraudon has just been appointed
as Director of the INRIA
Sophia Antipolis Research Unit. He succeeds Michel
Cosnard, the INRIA's new Chairman. More....
June
06/27/06
Record:
Using its "fast ECPP" software, the project-team TANC established
a new record by proving that Mills' constant made up of 20 562 decimal digits,
is prime. More....
06/27/06
Event:
Olivier Perriquet is putting on an exhibition of
multi-media work based on Cyber-II,
the virtual environment immersion technology developed by the project-team ARTIS.
The exhibition will be held in Tourcoing (59) until July 14.
06/26/06
Digiteo Labs: A global laboratory
Six research establishments and organisations join together to make up the
Digiteo Labs laboratory on the Saclay plateau. With strong backing from the
local authorities, this research park should bring together some 1,800 researchers
in the ICST (Information and Communication Science
and Technology) field by the year 2010. Interview
in INédit
55 with Claude Puech, Director of the INRIA Futurs Research Unit.
06/26/06
"Paris Capitale du Libre", the free software event:
INRIA is launching CeCILL-B and CeCILL-C,
its new free software licenses. INRIA is also presenting the 2006
Gold Lutèce for the best free development
project and is speaking on the topic "Which
future for Linux and the free softwares?"
06/26/06
Press release:
CeCILL: a coherent family of free and open
source software licenses under European law.
06/23/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection process for research support positions: the first results
of the selected candidates.
06/23/06
Networks explained to the secondary school pupils:
Using examples like mobile phones, the Internet and peer-to-peer applications,
Philippe Robert (project RAP)
gave secondary school pupils explanations concerning mathematical modelling
of communication networks.
More... (in
French).
06/23/06
Nomination:
Denis
Talay, head of the project OMEGA,
has just been appointed as SMAI's
new Chairman (French Applied Math. Society).
More...
06/19/06
Seminar : "10 years later, which evolutions for Java?"
During his visit to France, James Gosling, the inventor of Java, is
coming to INRIA Rocquencourt on June 30, 2006 (9:30am - 11:30am). You
will have the chance to find out how, 10 years on, this programming language
will evolve during the seminar "From Java Real Time to Refactoring
Large Java Codes". More
information...
06/19/06
Conference:
Co-organized by l'INRIA and lEEE France, the Fifteenth IEEE International
Symposium on High-Performance Distributed
Computing (Paris 19-23 June, 2006) presents the latest research findings
on the design and use of parallel distributed systems for high end computing,
collaboration, data analysis, and for other innovative applications.
06/19/06
Recruitment:
06/16/06
Event:
The extension of the INRIA Rennes and IRISA building will be inaugurated
on June 19 under the patronage of the Minister for Education and Research. More...
06/16/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection process for research support positions: Results
of the qualified candidates.
06/16/06
Seminar:
In Rocquencourt, on June 30, James Gosling (inventor of Java) will give
a presentation on the theme " 10
Years Later: How Java Technology Will Evolve".
06/12/06
Event:
The extension of the INRIA Lorraine and LORIA building will be inaugurated
on June 16 under the patronage of the Minister for Education and Research. More...
06/12/06
The unlikely encounter between tumours and game theory:
In order to grow, a cancerous tumour needs to create a blood vessel
network. By doing so it diverts the basic phenomena that keep the body
healthy. The OPALE team
and biologists from the molecular and cellular pharmacology institute IPMC,
are preparing to model this diversion using game theory.
More information in INédit
54.
06/09/06
Speech:
On May 10, 2006 Michel Cosnard addressed the European Parliament on
the ERCIM "Beyond the Horizon" action. The
complete text is on line.
06/08/06
Open archive:
INRIA research reports are now being systematically
deposited in HAL. This demonstrates the Institute's commitment to
the open archives movement and its policy of disseminating scientific and
technological information. More...
06/08/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection process for research support positions: first
results of the qualified candidates.
06/05/06
New project-team:
GALLIUM: Programming languages,
types, compilation and proofs.
06/05/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of senior research scientists (DR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates.
06/01/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Futurs.
May
05/31/06
INRIA at the 2nd European Research and Innovation Exhibition:
From June 8 to 11 in Paris, INRIA is participating in the 2nd
European Research and Innovation Exhibition. This event provides an opportunity
for professionals and other players in European research to present their
work and innovative ideas. INRIA will present its activities in the fields
of Information and Communication Science and Technology and will also at "Rendez-Vous
de l'Emploi". On
the programme...
05/24/06
Discover scientific culture during the two-day event with the French Academy
of Sciences:
The university of Nice Sophia Antipolis, in partnership with INRIA and CNRS,
is playing host to the Academy of Sciences on May 30 and 31. These two days
of open conferences will be devoted to scientific culture in the sciences of
the Universe, life sciences and digital sciences. Come and meet our researchers
Rose Dieng, Nicholas Ayache and Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, and our academicians
François Baccelli and Olivier Faugeras. On
the programme: computer science and the brain, the semantic Web, medical
images and healthcare...
05/24/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Rocquencourt.
05/23/06
New project-team:
ALICE: Geometry and Light
05/23/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Rennes.
05/18/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Lorraine.
05/16/06
Pervasive computing goes mainstream:
The technological transfer contract signed in March by INRIA and JCDecaux
means that a solution stemming from research in the field of pervasive
computing conducted by INRIA Rennes will be made available to the general
public.Interview
in INédit 54 with Michel Banâtre, chief research scientist
of the ACES project.
Consult the press release.
05/16/06
Nominations:
Jean-Pierre Verjus has
been appointed as advisor to the Chairman, member of the general management. Pascal
Guitton is now in charge of training through research.
05/15/06
INRIA at Hôpital Expo Intermedica:
Bernard Gibaud and Olivier Corby (VisAGeS and ACACIA projects)
will be interviewed live from Hôpital
Expo on May 18, 2006 in Paris. They will speak about new technology
in image management and knowlegde management.
05/15/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
05/11/06
Inauguration:
Christian Bréchot, CEO of Inserm, and Michel
Cosnard, Chairman and CEO of INRIA will inaugurate the
VisAGeS Unit, the first joint research team of the two institutes, on
May 12 at the premises of Irisa (Rennes).
05/11/06
INédit:
The unlikely encounter between tumours and game-theroy, pervasive computing goes
mainstream, the geometry of smoke vortices... More information in INédit 54.
05/09/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the results of the qualified candidates at INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
05/05/06
Press release:
New VisAGeS for cooperation between Inserm
and INRIA on medical imaging.
05/03/06
Michel Cosnard appointed as INRIA’s new Chairman:
By an order of the President of the Republic signed on May 2, 2006 and
published in the Official Journal on May 3, Michel
Cosnard has been named as Chairman of INRIA. He is a Professor at the
Polytechnic School of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Director of
the INRIA Sophia Antipolis research unit and member of the board of the “Communicating
Secured Solutions” cluster in the Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
region. He succeeds Gilles
Kahn who passed away on February 9, 2006.
The press
release and his message to all at INRIA.
April
04/24/06
Competitive selection process: 45 research support positions must be filled
INRIA is recruiting research support staff by competition, at all levels from
BEP to PhD, for various roles: computing, finance, assistantship, communication,
HR, relations with industry and logistics.
Application
form request deadline: May 22, 2006 (in French).
04/10/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of senior research scientists (DR2): consult
the short-list of candidates before the hearings begin.
04/10/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the short-list of candidates before the hearings at INRIA Futurs,
Lorraine, Rennes, Rhône-Alpes and Sophia Antipolis.
04/10/06
Another Step Forward for Health Care:
Inserm and INRIA have created their first joint project
team, VISAGES.
Bringing together medical knowledge and applied mathematics to serve the
needs of medical imaging and interpretation, INRIA's participation in this
team gives the measure of its involvement in the medical field.
Interview with Christian
Barillot in INédit 53.
04/06/06
Scilab, new version available:
More powerful graphics, improved text editing, a more efficient Matlab to
Scilab converter, and many improvements in numerical computation... these
are the major changes of Scilab 4.0.
04/03/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the short-list of candidates before hearings at INRIA Rocquencourt begin.
March
03/31/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the short-list of the candidates before hearings at INRIA Futurs and at INRIA
Sophia Antipolis.
03/30/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of experienced research scientists (CR1): consult
the list of the qualified candidates.
03/30/06
Press release:
INRIA and JCDecaux Sign an Innovative Technological
Transfer Contract for the Future Digital City.
03/29/06
Recruitment:
Competitive selection of junior research scientists (CR2): consult
the short-list of the candidates before hearings at INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
03/27/06
INRIA is recruiting young scientists and young engineers:
INRIA is offering positions for doctorate
candidates (100) and post
doctoral researchers (130) in its research teams in cutting-edge scientific
fields: networks, software security, complex systems, simulation and virtual
reality, and modelling living systems. The institute is recruiting graduate
engineers who wish to acquire experience in a research environment, on
a contract basis.
It starts here and now...
03/20/06
Prospective seminar of the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council:
The prospective seminars organized by the COST present the state of the art
on many current research themes followed by a discussion. All researchers are
invited to deliberate together on tomorrow's research.
On the seminar’s agenda on March 27 (Henri Poincaré Institute
- Paris):
• Information theory: recent advances and future challenges by Venkat
Anantharam
• Emerging threats and challenges for security research by Gene Tsudik.
Click here if you wish to attend
the seminar (Henri Poincaré Institute or on live on the web).
03/15/06
Recruitment:
The PhD
campaign is open. Consult our offers.
03/13/06
2005 Activity Report:
The 2005 annual report of
INRIA's teams and project-teams (Raweb) is available on line. Raweb presents
the research activities of the institute's 170 teams and project-teams in
many formats. This is the twelfth
consecutive year that INRIA has published Raweb, which groups together
its “on line science report” with 1,400 activity reports and
44,000 pages containing information on, and weblinks to, the various research
material produced by the institute.
03/08/06
Recruitment:
Post-doc campaign:
consult our offers. Application deadline: March 31, 2006.
03/08/06
Women's Day , March 8:
Discover Rose
DIENG-KUNTZ's career, how she received the 2005 Irène Joliot-Curie
Prize, and her contribution to science in the area of Knowledge Management
and the Semantic Web.
03/06/06
Software for Fast Identification of Pirated Images:
Fighting pirated images is vital for photo agencies that earn their
living from copyrights. The associate team EFF2,
which brings together researchers from the TEXMEX project-team
in Rennes and Icelandic researchers, has found a fast and efficient way
for agencies to know if certain suspicious images come from their data
banks or not. More information in INédit 53.
03/02/06
New research project-teams:
- MESCAL: Middleware efficiently
scalable
- MOAIS: Programming and scheduling
design for Applications in interactive simulation
03/01/06
INédit:
Better Interpretation and Sharing of Medical Images - Fast Identification
of Pirated Images... More information in INédit 53.
February
02/28/06
A tribute to Gilles Kahn:
The INRIA management committee and personnel would like to thank all those
who sent in their tributes in memory of Gilles Kahn, INRIA Chairman
and CEO, who passed away in February.
In memory of Gilles
Kahn.
02/28/06
Agenda:
François Baccelli (TREC project-team)
will give a lecture at the University Of All Knowledge for high school
students entitled "Computer
Science and mobile telephony: tomorrow's networks" on March 1 at
the University Paris 5.
02/09/06
Tribute to Gilles Kahn:
It is with great sorrow that INRIA's management committee and personnel announce
the death of their Chairman and CEO, Gilles Kahn, on February 9. They offer
Mr Kahn's family their condolences and express their deepest sympathy and support.
02/06/06
On the Road to Discovery:
Véronique Cortier, a CNRS Junior
Research Scientist in the CASSIS project-team
(INRIA
Lorraine), co-authored the book "Sur les chemins de la
découverte" (On the Road to Discovery) with fourteen winners
of the Thesis Prize awarded by the French newspaper Le Monde. The book
is intended for the layman and provides an overview of the authors' work
ranging from the environment to molecules, via the virtual
world and cryptography, Véronique
Cortier's specialist field.
Interview.
02/06/06
"Researchers at School" operation:
Twelve members of the INRIA Futurs project-teams met pupils from
the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Relive
this event.
02/02/06
INédit:
How can we monitor the condition of the Brazilian forests? The CLIME project
team helps by analysing a sequence of satellite images.
More in INédit 52.
January
01/27/06
"Researchers at School" operation:
From October 10 to 22, 2005, INRIA Futurs took part in
the Researchers at School operation
as part of the Science
Fair. Over 50 researchers visited schools in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais
region to talk about what they do. These visits also provided the opportunity
for the researchers to invite pupils to enter the School of the
Future” competition. The pupils rose to the challenge and submitted
some amazing projects reflecting their vision tomorrow’s school.
Discover their
creations...
01/26/06
Prize:
Teddy Furon (TEMICS project
team) has received the 2005
Brittany Prize to Young Scientists.
01/26/06
Agenda:
INRIA will be holding a stand at the Linux
Solutions 2006 exhibition and at the Fifth
Annual ObjectWeb Conference, held in the same place, from January 31 to
February 2 in Paris.
01/26/06
Press Release:
INRIA's reply to open source software:
"Pragmatic and innovative solutions to meet new challenges..."
01/24/06
New research project-team:
SALSA: Solvers for Algebraic
Systems and Applications.
01/17/06
Cooperative Research Initiatives:
Discover the Cooperative Research
Initiatives accepted
for 2006-2007.
01/16/06
Competitive selection: senior research scientists
In 2006, INRIA is recruiting through a competitive exam 13
senior research scientists (DR2).
Competitive selection begins on January 16. Application forms will
be available until February 13.
01/16/06
Official opening of the competitive selection: junior research scientists
INRIA is recruiting 27
junior research scientists (CR2). Competitive
selection begins on January 16. Application forms will
be available until February 13.
01/09/06
INRIA-Industry Meeting "ICST for Medicine" (January 24):
INRIA in association with Inserm is organising a conference
on "Information and Communication Science and Technology for Medicine" with
a view to encouraging partnerships with technological companies and medical teams. Register
now!
01/09/06
Recruitment:
Mobility campaign: job
openings for civil servants (secondment positions only).
01/09/06
Agenda:
The Fifth Annual
ObjectWeb Conference will be held from January 31 to
February 2, in Paris.
01/05/06
Interview:
INRIA's new Evaluation Committee took up its duties in October. Find
out more about it with Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, the new Chairman.
01/05/06
Web site:
INRIA, CNRS, Inserm, INRA and Cemagref are launching TermSciences,
a scientific terminology portal.
01/04/06
INédit:
Micro-organisms included in the equation, Science goes to school,
In vivo microscopy
offers a broader view... More in INédit
52.
01/03/06
Mobility campaign: job openings for civil servants
(secondment positions only)
INRIA is developing! If you want to boost your career
and are eager to make your expertise available to the Research
sector, INRIA is offering close to 80 positions for secondment
in all areas of employment. Find
out more (in French only).
01/03/06
Happy New Year 2006:
Greetings and Best Wishes for
the New Year from INRIA.
