INRIA in Brief

Appointments

Jean-François Abramatic is Director for Development and Industrial Relations at INRIA as of September 1st, 1997. He will continue however to be president of the W3C consortium in France.
Michel Cosnard was named Director of the INRIA Lorraine research unit replacing Alain Quéré. M. Cosnard is a professor at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyons. He also was director of the Parallel Computing Laboratory (LIP) that he created in September 1988. In addition to teaching, he was responsible for research activities in close collaboration with industry (Elf, Intel, Maspar, Dec, CGE, Matra Systèmes & Information, Thomson, CSTI and so on). In particular, he directed the European technology transfer center ProHPC and the Laboratory for High Performance Computing (LHPC), a joint laboratory of LIP and Matra Systèmes & Information.

The French-speaking Community

INRIA recently became an affiliate of Aupelf-Uref, the francophone agency for higher education and research. The Institute hopes thus to play a more active role in French-speaking scientific exchanges, to help developing countries and to spread results of French research. Within this framework, several joint projects are planned with Aupelf-Uref: seconding an INRIA researcher to Aupelf-Uref, cooperative projects with Vietnam and China, participating in Aupelf-Uref's activities. For its part, the francophone agency will participate financially in the organization of Cari '98, the African conference on computer research.

Technology Company

A new firm has joined the club of INRIA technology companies. Tak' Asic, created in 1991 by researchers from INRIA, is a leader in the French market for the development of complex functions in the area of micro-electronics. Active in the multimedia sector, the company specializes in image processing and communication packages.

Contact: Tak' Asic
150, avenue Joseph Kessel
78960 Voisins-le-Bretonneux
France
Tel.: +33 1 30 12 16 00
Fax: +33 1 30 12 16 01