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Paris, June 7, 2004
INRIA is involved in research themes pertaining to data and knowledge management. The Institute co-organizes the prestigious international conference on databases, SIGMOD/PODS 2004, in association with the ACM. For the first time in 23 years, the conference will leave North America and be held in Paris at the Maison de la Chimie from June 13 to June 18.
Because there is an important technological gap between having information available and making use of it, the INRIA research teams are involved in the development of tools capable of precisely and efficiently managing data. Two startups were recently launched based on their work, Xylème and Médience.
Due to the multiplication of applications that generate data, information is becoming increasingly complex, multiform and distributed (electronic mail, web, cell phones, PDAs, computers, and so on). It is thus becoming a priority to offer individuals and business the capability of better managing and making the most of their data stocks, thus optimizing their time and the way they work in complete confidentiality.
Mastering all these challenges is one of the common concerns of SIGMOD/PODS participants. The conference expects over 500 attendees from research and industry. It will be based on 75 high quality publications as well as several demonstrations and workshops mixing together leading edge ideas and field realities. SIGMOD/PODS thus offers the opportunity to highlight promising research directions in security, peer-to-peer data management, XML data, embedded data, multimedia data, and so forth.
The explicit goal is to catalyze exchanges between the different contributors and to progress toward ambitious solutions that will succeed in extracting the richness of available information and, in the long run, lead to semantic processing of the data.
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INRIA, the national institute for research in computer science
and control, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in
information and communication science and technology (ICST). Throughout
its six research units located in nine major regions*,
the Institute has a workforce of 3,200, 2,400 of whom are scientists
from INRIA and its partner organizations. INRIA has an annual budget
of 125 million euros, one quarter of which comes from its own research
contracts and development products.
The Institute plays a crucial role in five areas of research: communicating
systems, cognitive systems, symbolic systems, numerical systems and biological
systems.
INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company foundation in the field of ICST - some seventy companies have been founded. Startups are financed in particular by INRIA-Transfert, a subsidiary of INRIA that supports four startup funds, I-Source 1 and I-Source 2 (information and communication technology), C-Source for multimedia and T-Source for telecommunications.
INRIA's international collaborations result in the welcoming and recruitment of foreign students and extensive research scientist exchanges. The priority is given to geographical areas with a strong economic potential-the European research area, Asia and North America-while maintaining continuous relations with South america, Africa and the Middle East.
*Aquitaine, Bretagne, Lorraine and Franche Comté, Île-de-France, Nord Pas de Calais, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur and Languedoc Roussillon, Rhône-Alpes
| INRIA Vincent Coronini Tel. : 01 39 63 57 29 |
KETCHUM Yasmina Madafi Tel. : 01 53 32 55 90 |
