2015 marked a busy year in the field of computational sciences with a lot of scientific rewards, new partnerships, researcher profiles, 30 years of business creation...
For more than three years, Inria and the members of the Scientific Research Foundation (Fondation de Coopération Scientifique - FCS) have been working together with the aim of creating a new federal structure bringing together leading scientific research institutions and higher education establishments to deliver a new university capable of taking its place alongside the best in the world. The University of Paris-Saclay came into being on the 31st December 2014. Destined to become a major research university, it will benefit from close ties with the largest group of universities in Europe, all located in the Greater Paris region.
Protected by cryptography, what we share over the Net is secure… for the time being. Vadim Lyubashevsky is a researcher working in the Cascade project team. He designs data protection protocols with improved security. His project is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), which has awarded him aStarting Grant
Binaire, Le Monde's blog on Computer Science, is celebrating its first anniversary. Its only rule is to talk about computer science... to everyone. Interview with Serge Abiteboul, Research Director at Inria.
Wednesday, January 21, Inria, University of Lille, CNRS, and Inserm, will file their response to a call for projects issued by the French government, calledInitiatives d'excellence(Initiatives for Excellence) or IDEX. The call is part of the government’s second Future Investment Plan. The aim of these initiatives is to develop ten or so major research universities on a par with the world’s leading universities.
A programme to develop a new-generation vaccination strategy for the Ebola vaccine (EBOVAC 2) has been launched by Inserm and is coordinated by Rodolphe Thiébaut at Bordeaux University, who is leader of the SISTM project team
This is the story of a human and scientific encounter. When Stéphanie Fleck, the Associate Professor leading the University of Lorraine's PErSEUs* team, came to Talence barely a year ago to present her work to the IMH'13 conference (organised by Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest and the Francophone Association for Man-Machine Interaction), she discovered the work of Martin Hachet, who was heading the Potioc project team.
The Digital Creation GENIE Award has been won by Alexandre Gauthier-Foichat for his software, Natron, a video compositor for cinematographic production.
Can we guarantee the accuracy in numerical simulations? And can we make the different components of numerical algorithms interact more efficiently so as to speed-up the present-day simulations up to orders of magnitude? These are the questions asked in the European Research Council (ERC) consolidator project GATIPOR (Guaranteed fully adaptive algorithms with tailored inexact solvers for complex porous media flows) of Martin Vohralík.
Some feedback on the survey conducted in December 2014 to review the Inria Lille – Nord Europe research centre's image and impact on the stakeholders composing its ecosystem, including industrial companies, academic partners, local authorities, journalists, service providers and teachers.
After several months in construction, the ProofInUse joint laboratory is now fully operational. Today marked the official launch of work on developments aimed at providing a range of verification tools for critical systems
"Yellowbird, ready for take off" (French title: "Gus, petit oiseau, grand voyage") was released on 4 February. Beneath the surface of this contemporary cartoon, the 3D animated film took many long months for animation studio TeamTO to produce, working in association with Imagine, the Inria project team based at the Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes Research Centre. Jean-Baptiste Spieser, TeamTO Technical Director, and François Faure, Professor at Grenoble University and researcher in the Imagine team.
Thanks to the dedication of the Nord-Pas de Calais Regional Council and the Métropole Européenne de Lille, the Inria Lille - Nord Europe Research Center is getting ready to test out a new technology transfer platform, called InriaTech. As of mid-2015, around ten engineers will be on call to develop the transfer of research to local innovating SMEs. David Simplot-Ryl, Director of the Inria Lille - Nord Europe Research Center, explains all.
It is with great sadness that we learned that Robert B. France passed away last Sunday, 15 February. Robert France was 54. He was Professor at Colorado State University (CSU) and held an Inria International Chair, which meant that he made regular trips to Rennes. Inria pays tribute to our dearly departed colleague, a distinguished researcher and a lovely person.
What are the laws of physics that determine the movements of millions of grains in a silo?It’s a question that has baffled scientists for over a century.The work of Nicolas Brodu, a post-doctoral researcher in the Geostat project team at Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, has thrown a little more light on the matter.
Last November, the Prosecco research team led by Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered a vulnerability in the TLS protocol used to secure internet communications. Interview with Antoine Delignat-Lavaud , doctoral researcher and member of the Prosecco research team.
Anke Brock and Maria Kazolea have recently joined Inria Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest as junior researchers. We share their experiences and reflections on the role of women in computer science.
From High Performance Computing to modelling heart rhythm, the scope of research carried out at the Inria Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest Research Centre is vast. To ensure that its activities are clearly visible, the Scientific Department has structured them around four strategic priority research areas. Here, all is explained.
On the occasion of the IEEE VR conference taking place at the end of March 2015 in Arles, Sabine Coquillart, General Chair of the conference and research director of the Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes PRIMA project team, describes the changes taking place today in the virtual reality market. Taking advantage of the availability of increasingly powerful smartphones, the market is rapidly opening up to the general public. Sabine Coquillart explains why.
L’équipe-projet Bonsai d’Inria Lille - Nord Europe (commune avec le CNRS et l'Université Lille1*) a créé Vidjil, un logiciel d’analyse à très haut débit de globules blancs. L’objectif : fournir aux médecins une aide au traitement de la leucémie. À l’occasion des journées nationales contre la leucémie des 28 et 29 mars, ses créateurs expliquent son fonctionnement.
The Institute jointly organizes with the French Embassy in Japan, CNRS, NICT and Keio University, a workshop devoted to cybersecurity that will be held in Tokyo on April 1st and 3rd, 2015.
On Monday 11th May 2015, a new edition of Inria Industry Meetings will be held on the theme of Smart City & Mobility Innovations, organized by Inria, Inria@SiliconValley and PRIME.
Originaire de Dacca, la capitale du Bangladesh, Hafiz Ahmed étudie en France depuis son master. Il est à présent doctorant au sein de l’équipe-projet Non-A, Non-Asymptotic estimation for online systems (commune avec Centrale Lille, le CNRS et l'Université Lille1*), du centre Inria Lille - Nord Europe. Ses travaux consistent à développer des modèles pour l’étude du comportement d’huîtres dans des écosystèmes marins du Bassin d’Arcachon afin de repérer d’éventuelles perturbations de leurs cycles biologiques, qui pourraient être autant de signes d’une pollution de l’eau.
For the first time in its history, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015) will be taking place in France. Inria Lille - Nord Europe is taking part in the organization of this unmissable event for the machine learning community.
Jean-François Abramatic, President of W3C from 1996 to 2001, is currently adviser to INRIA’s Deputy Director General for Industrial Transfers and Partnerships. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the W3C, the body responsible for standardisation of the Web, he reviews the history of W3C and the new challenges he is facing on behalf of the consortium.
The annual BIS (Berkeley-Inria-Stanford) workshop is part of the Inria@SiliconValley program. It is co-organized by Inria and its partners in California. The objectives of the workshop are to present the current status of ongoing scientific collaborations and to work on proposals for future ambitious joint projects.
A joint study of the interactions between all the people in a hospital, the i-Bird (Individual-based Investigation of Resistance Dissemination) experiment has helped identify the factors involved in the spread and transmission of bacteria that cause nosocomial infections. The results confirm that new technologies may be useful in analysing epidemics.
Pixyl has developed a new software solution for medical research designed to extract the maximum amount of information contained in MRI brain scans (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). This solution specifically locates, identifies and quantifies, from MRI sequences, a broad range of brain lesions related to pathologies such as multiple sclerosis, brain trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and brain tumours. Pixyl thus opens up new possibilities for the use of these imaging resources whose potential has hitherto remained under-developed in the biotechnology industry.
The social network has announced the opening of an artificial intelligence research facility in the French capital. This will be the third such laboratory and the first in Europe, the others being in New York and California. The opening of the laboratory also marks the start of a strategic partnership with Inria.
In March, the Internet was thrown into turmoil by the FREAK attack discovered by the PROSECCO team. Following the discovery of the Logjam vulnerability, Karthik Bhargavan, who heads this team (focusing on verifying the cryptographic mechanisms used to secure internet communication: cryptographic protocols, smart cards, secure flash drives, encrypted databases, etc.) and who is one of the researchers who worked on the discovery, told us about it in more detail.
On 12th June 2015, Inria, in partnership with Cap Digital and System@tic, organised an "Inria Industry meeting" focused on "Power Transition", as part of the Futur en Seine festival. This half-day, filled with discussions around technology demonstrations and conferences with speakers who shared their scientific and industrial vision in the domain, took place at the CNAM in Paris.
Animesh Pathak is a research scientist in the Mimove team at the Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Research Centre. Born in India, he started out as an intern on the Institute’s internship programme, returning later after a period of time spent in America. Animesh, a specialist in mobile application systems, gives us an account of the day-to-day life of a researcher at Inria.
June 2015: David Simplot-Ryl, director of Inria Lille - Nord Europe, is reappointed as the head of the Lille-based research center for five more years.
The Inria Saclay - Île-de-France research centre presents Wilder, a video wall composed of 75 screens. The Wilder video wall is part of the Digiscope Equipement d’Excellence programme and is the successor to the Wild project. As well as being bigger than its predecessor, Wilder incorporates screens with virtually invisible edges. The array is designed to allow scientists to view very large images and explore complex data with astonishing comfort.
Today, Inria announces the launch of SoundCity, a mobile application to measure your personal exposure to noise pollution. The project is supported by the City of Paris smart city initiative and Bernard Jomier, deputy mayor responsible for health, disability, and relations with Paris public hospital system.
At 27 years old Xavier Duportet, the founder of Eligo Bioscience, was one of the 10 French innovators aged under 35 to be rewarded for their "revolutionary technologies" by the magazine MIT Technology Review in partnership with BNP Paribas and the Atelier BNP Paribas on Wednesday 15 April 2015. On 8 July 2015, Eligo Bioscience received 2 million Euros of funding from Seventure.
Xavier Leroy,Gallium project team leader at the Inria Paris-Rocquencourt research centre, has been awarded the Royal Society Milner Award 2016 in recognition of his research on the OCaml functional programming language and on the formal verification of compilers. This prize, created in homage to Professor Robin Milner, rewards a European researcher for his or her exceptional contribution to computer science.
In order to understand properly the consequences of global warming for the environment, relevant models, and methods of analysing those models have to be developed. Clémentine Prieur, professor at the University of Grenoble and a member of the AIRSEA research team, talks about managing the uncertainty inherent in the models. She has just been awarded the Blaise Pascal prize from the Académie des Sciences for her work.
During its first summit held in Madrid June 17-19 Inria was accepted as a full-member to the BDVA. Inria is highly concerned by the technical challenges, and, to a lesser extent, the social-economic topics identified by the association with over 30 research teams (distributed over its 8 centers), working on various aspects of Big Data including data management, processing architectures, deep analytics, security and privacy, and visualization.
Seven Inria projects have won awards at the i-LAB competition, organised by the French Ministry of Research (MENESR) and Bpifrance with the aim of identifying and supporting the creation of new French companies in the most innovative technological fields.
The team-project Prosecco continue to be pointed out during this year of 2015 by receiving 3 new prices
Inria announces the Inria awards 2015 winners. Find out who are acknowledged this year for their major contributions to computer science and promising innovations for our society and the proper functioning of Inria. The winners of five Inria awards in 2015 will be honoured on October 6th, at an awards ceremony at the Forum des Images in Paris.
Ioana Manolescu, Research Director at Inria Saclay – Ile-de-France Research Centre, heads the OAK team, a joint team with Université Paris-Sud. She is currently working on a tool for deciphering content: "An application for rooting out the fibs told by politicians?" as headlined by the paper Ouest France in an article published on Thursday, 3 September 2015. Here we take a look back at Ioana Manolescu's career and at how this ambitious project came into being.
Designed as a test-bed for the technologies underlying the Internet of Things, the FIT IoT-Lab was officially opened at Inria Lille – Nord Europe.The lab will provide an innovative new infrastructure for researchers and manufacturers.
On 9 and 10 October last, the Saclay - Île-de-France Inria Centre opened its doors to the public for the 2015 Science Festival. Here is some feedback in pictures from the Festival.
The start-up iQSpot, which was created in 2015 at the Inria-Bordeaux research centre and specialises in energy savings, has raised 300,000 Euros in seed funding from IT-Translation.
Anke Brock is a research scientist in the Potioc team at Inria Bordeaux. She's working on Human-Computer Interaction, and now develops a project of interaction with geographic maps.
Inria reaffirms its official position regarding the deposit of written productions on an open access basis. The primary concern is the requirement to deposit the full text of all Inria project teams’ publications in HAL, the open archive.
Fingerprinting makes it possible to secretly collect data from net surfers that makes it possible to identify them. This is known as “fingerprinting”. The process is as effective as it is hard to detect. Two Inria teams, based inRennes and Lille,are seeking to exposethis potential menace to privacy.Enter story info here
International team of collaborators develops and validatesapproach for predicting disease spread.
The dissertations of Samuel Huron and Jeremy Boy have received the "IEEE VGTC VPG doctoral dissertation award 2015" with a First Prize for Samuel for his dissertation "Constructive Visualization: A token-based paradigm allowing to assemble dynamic visual representation for non-experts" and an Honorable Mention for Jeremy. Samuel Huron and Jeremy Boy are both Ph.D students in the Aviz team of Inria Saclay – Ile-de-France, associated with Université Paris Sud.
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