INRIA in Brief

INRIA Rocquencourt's Freeware CD-Rom

Pierre Weis, a researcher at INRIA, initiated the creation of this CD, with encouragements from Laure Reinhart, Director of the Rocquencourt unit. He gathered and organized the data, which include:

• a presentation of the Rocquencourt unit and its research projects
• a set of freeware developed by INRIA teams and other. The distribution is organized in several directories by computer type: Macintosh, PC (Windows NT, 95 or 3.11), Unix machines (in particular Linux PCs),...
• presentation pages written by certain research projects.

Contact: Pierre Weis, INRIA Rocquencourt
Tel.: +33 1 39 63 55 98 - Pierre.Weis@inria.fr

The 1997 Annual Report

INRIA's annual report was published in French and in English. It summarizes the activity of the Institute for the year 1997. A choice of nine scientific themes exemplifies INRIA's contribution to research in such diverse domains as health, environment, telecommunications and culture.
In addition to the report, scientific and technical appendices are also published. The seven volumes present the activities of the different projects, their objectives, research work, partnerships and publications. Specific volumes are consecrated to the development initiatives, international relations, computer resources and communication and scientific information.
These documents are available upon request at the Communication and Scientific Information Service of INRIA, or directly on the Web at:
http://www.inria.fr/Rapports/ (text available only in French).

Geometrical Calculus

Constructing and handling geometrical objects efficiently is the key to numerous applications such as three-dimensional modeling, mobile telephone network analysis, trajectory planning and the simulation of physical phenomena.
The 7th Algorithmic Geometry meeting will be held from May 11 to May 15 at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. For more information, see:
http://www.inria.fr/prisme/manifestations/journees98/.