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Paris, June 4, 2007
40 years of innovation at 'INRIA! The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) will be unveiling its latest technological breakthroughs at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition running from 7 to 9 June, 2007. The state-of-the-art technologies being shown at this year's exhibition have diverse applications that will revolutionise our daily lives: healthcare, the environment, culture, virtual reality and in industry. Speakers from INRIA will also be participating in the series of lectures, focusing especially on the Institute's 40th anniversary.
Cardiosense3D: innovation for patients with heart disease
In a bid to further research into heart disease, the Institute will present its Cardiosense3D project, a cardiac simulator that can be customised to the individual patient, giving the cardiologist a 3D view of key physiological parameters (mechanical contraction, electrophysiology, perfusion and metabolism). There are four INRIA research teams working on this national project: ASCLEPIOS, MACS, REO and SISYPHE.
ViCopT: innovation to protect audiovisual content
To deal with the explosion of audiovisual content on our TV screens and the Net, the IMEDIA research team from INRIA is developing ViCopT in conjunction with INA, France's National Audiovisual Institute, which opened up access to its archives in 2006. The aim of this system is to track video content to detect copies, together with a set of fast, automatic picture and video search tools.
Grimage: innovation for special effects designers in the film industry
TheGrimage project provides innovative solutions for the film industry based on virtual reality techniques. It is a software platform used to reconstruct real sets as 3D models and to make the real sets interact with the 3D models. This system creates visual effects that have never been achieved before and can be used in the production of 3D content for digital film and television of the future.
Lastly, research on IT security developed at the Joint INRIA-Microsoft Research Centre will also be presented by the teams of researchers.
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How can the same mathematical techniques be used to monitor the wiring systems of a car or aircraft engine (major safety issues) and the condition of the arterial trunk through pressure analysis? Questions like this are tackled by current research carried out in liaison with the INRIA's different partners (in the car industry, the CEA or the healthcare sector).
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In 1967, General de Gaulle conferred the task of developing Computer Science upon public research in France. In the last 40 years, the latter has been largely instrumental in creating what we now know as the information society: Internet, multimedia and computer modelling. It has found applications in areas as diverse as healthcare, the environment, the service industry and has revolutionised production processes, social practices and daily life. Public research in Computer Science has developed, around INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), through a constant interchange with the world of economics and industry, as well as with private sector R&D. This research model is now proving consistently effective in rising to the challenge set in Lisbon, namely, to make the European Union “the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world.”
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Development of the Internet of the future relies on Grid technology which INRIA has been studying for several years. Researchers specialising in this area of application will review the state of knowledge and future prospects.
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The French national institute for research in computer science and control is the only public institute entirely dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). It has a 3,600 strong staff - 2,800 of which are scientists - distributed in six research units across France. INRIA has an annual budget of 160 million euros excluding VAT, 20% of which comes from its own research contracts and licences. INRIA has massive influence in the following fields: "networks, telecoms and multimedia", "complex systems and software" and "modelling, simulation and visualisation". It develops collaborations with the economic world through strategic industrial partners and by setting up open forums and creating companies (80 start-ups in 20 years) - particularly through its subsidiary INRIA-Transfert, promoter of four start-up funds.
More information: http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html
| INRIA Vincent Coronini Tel.: + 33 1 39 63 57 29 |
Lowe Stratéus for INRIA Clémentine Duguay / Matthias Le Fur Tel. : +33 1 40 41 56 11/ 66 |
