L'INRIA a quarante ans

Leaders and speakers

Leaders

Speakers

Leaders:

Dominique Dambert

Since 1983, Donique Dambert is co-founding journalist and co-producer of "Rue des Entrepreneurs", the socio-economics radio programme on France Inter. This radio programme has won many awards, including, three times, the Paris Dauphine University award for the best radio show on economic issues.

 

 

 

Valéry Dubois

Valéry Dubois worked as a reporter for Radio France from 1990 to 2007, has written for ten years for TV documentaries and for films on the subject of innovation, playing a key role in making the latest science & technology news accessible to the public (titles include “Les nanosciences au CNRS”, “Technologies de l’information et développement économique” and “Les véhicules du future”, among others). Having worked with digital audio technology since the late 80s and virtual editing systems since 1996, he is personally familiar with the use of equipment developed as a result of progress in computer technology (Full HD films, 3D artwork and audiovisual post-production, etc.).

 

Jacques Henno

Jacques Henno is a freelance journalist and editorial consultant, specializing in new technologies. He was assistant senior editor at Web Magazine, the first French monthly publication devoted to the Internet and multimedia, and section editor at Capital magazine. He writes for Les Echos, Lire, Que Choisir, Science & Vie, Vnunet.fr, etc.
He participates in radio programmes (France Info, Europe 1, RMC...) and appears on television reports (TF1, France2...). He regularly gives conferences, particularly for young people, on new technologies and children and new technologies and privacy.

Examples of his published work:
- Tous Fichés : l'incroyable projet américain pour déjouer les attentats terroristes, éditions Télémaque,
- Pornographie la vraie violence, essai consacré aux enfants face aux écrans, éditions Télémaque,  2004.
- Les Jeux Vidéo,  collection Idées Reçues, éditions du Cavalier bleu,  2002.
- L'Internet, collection Idées Reçues, éditions du Cavalier Bleu,  2001.

 

Daniel Kaplan

Daniel Kaplan is CEO of the Fondation pour l'Internet Nouvelle Génération (France’s Next-Generation Internet Foundation) and Chairman of the European e-Learning Institute (EIfEL).

Member of the Chamber of Experts for the e-Europe programme, member of the information technology strategy committee advising the French Prime Minister, co-founder and CEO of the French Chapter of the Internet Society, Daniel Kaplan is deeply committed in Internet development in France and worldwide. He has written and edited 13 books on the Internet, mobility, e-education, e-commerce and electronic media. In 2002, he was named as one of the top 100 people that “make things happen in France” by the magazine Newbiz.

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Laurent Kott

Laurent Kott is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, a Doctor of Computer Science, and a former university professor. Managing Director for Technology Transfer at INRIA since 1996, he was formerly Executive Vice-President of INRIA (1990-1996) and Director of INRIA in Rennes (1985-1996). In addition to his position as Technology Companies Manager, Laurent Kott is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board for I-Source Gestion (since 1998), a board member of Oséo Anvar (since 1999), and President of CapInTech (since 2002).

 

Marie-Odile Monchicourt

Former drama student Marie-Odile Monchicourt, a science columnist for Radio France, began her radio career on France-Inter with a programme called "l'Oreille en Coin", where she contributed to the creation of comic sketches! Very soon, however, she turned to presenting scientific programmes on France Culture and France-Inter ("Poussières d'étoile", a programme focusing on astronomy, astrophysics, space, etc.). Today, she presents weekly science columns on France-Inter, as well as daily columns on France-Info www.France-info.com.

Marie-Odile Monchicourt has also contributed to many French national TV programmes, in particular "Envoyé Spécial" on France 2, "Le Cercle de Minuit", hosted by Michel Field on the same channel and, every year since 1990, "La Nuit des Etoiles" also on France 2, working as a presenter and journalist in partnership initially with France-Inter, then with France-Info.

She has received several awards for her work, including:
The French Academy of Science "Prix de la communication scientifique" in 1993.
The French Senate's "Lauriers d'or" award for her programmes aimed at increasing our understanding of the planet, 1999
The "Prix Jean Perrin", awarded by the "Société française de physique" in 2000, for her role in bringing science to the general public.

 

Virginie Robert

Virginie Robert edits the ‘Innovation’ page in Les Echos, France’s leading economic daily newspaper. She is an occasional blogger (http://blogs.lesechos.fr/) and a regular contributor to the LCI radio programme, ‘Plein Ecran’.

From 1994 to 2000, she wrote for the hi-tech column in Les Echos, after working for "01 Informatique" from 1991 to 1994.

Virginie Robert has a Master’s from Medill Journalism School at Northwestern University (Illinois) and a Bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University (Indiana).

 

Mathieu Vidard

After working as a presenter on France Bbleu Sud Lorraine radio for many years and writing for several series for Radio France’s Ateliers de Création programme (on Maurane, Etienne Daho, Stephan Eicher, among others), Mathieu Vidard made his début on France Inter in 2001 with “C’est comme à la radio”. Since then, he has also presented the shows, Taxi Europa and Café Bazar.  Since 2006, he has produced and presented the science programme, La tête au carré. Eclectic, popular and educational: La tête au carré is a current affairs programme that deals with all the sciences, from biology to philosophy.

 

 

Speakers:

Jean-François Abramatic

Jean-Francois Abramatic is ILOG's chief product officer. He is responsible for product vision and strategy; product design and development; and product marketing and management. A former ILOG board member, Abramatic has more than 30 years of research-and-development experience in a broad range of academic and industrial disciplines. A recognized Internet authority, Abramatic was chairman of the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from 1996 to 2001, and is a former director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He has also advised the French government on the state of Internet development worldwide, including recommendations for speeding up Internet development in France.

Abramatic's technology experience includes roles as former associate director at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and the founding of the Department of Business Development at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA).

He currently serves on many advisory boards including the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, which advises the French government on information technology strategies. He also serves on advisory boards for Reuters Venture Capital; the Forum des Droits de l.Internet (a forum aimed at debating about rights and ethics on the Web); and Xylème (a content solutions provider) and W3C Advisory Board.

Earlier achievements include a role as founder, chairman and CEO of a company that designed and manufactured graphics terminals. Abramatic started his career as a research scientist at INRIA, concentrating on the area of image processing.

 

Alain Beltran

Alain Beltran, Head of Research at CNRS, is in charge of teaching and research activities for the mixed IRICE research unit (European Identity, International Relations and Civilisations), CNRS Paris I - Paris IV Universities. He specialises in the economic and technical history of the late 19th century and the 20th century and also in the history of innovation. He is particularly interested in company history, especially that of public companies (EDF, Gaz de France, the SNCF and SITA) and in the history of energy.

He is co-author, with Pascal Griset, of "Histoire d'un pionnier de l'informatique". The book traces the forty years of the history of France’s National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control from the introduction of the Plan Calcul (Computational Plan) to the present day.

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Philippe Breton

Philippe Breton is a sociology researcher at CNRS and at the Laboratoire de sociologie de la culture européenne in Strasbourg. A dedicated computer science historian and a critical observer of communication technologies, he is also the author of a dozen works published by La Découverte, including: Éloge de la parole (2003), L’explosion de la communication à l’aube du XXIe siècle (new 2002 edition), Le culte de l’Internet, une menace pour le lien social (2000), L'utopie de la communication et une Histoire de l'informatique (Seuil, Points/Science, 1990). He publishes a blog.

 

 

Eric Bruillard

Éric Bruillard teaches Computer Science at Paris 12 University (IUFM) and is a researcher at the Science, Technology, Education and Training laboratory (ENS Cachan and INRP), as well as being a member of the ISLAND team at the GREYC laboratory (Caen University). He is Editor-in-Chief of the STICEF review. His research focuses on the design and use of IT tools in education. He coordinates a networked team dealing with collaborative distance learning and the use of discussion forums. He is currently in the process of completing research into the use of spreadsheets in education and has begun work on a new research project exploring the use of digital work environments in secondary education.

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Sébastien Canevet

Sébastien Canevet is a specialist in the field of Internet Law and new medias.  He holds a PhD in law, and acts in many capacities as a researcher, professor, and senior lecturer in private law.  He is also a member of the Internet Rights Forum Steering Committee and is head of the ISOC France legal commission.

His website is a mine of information concerning law, the Internet and new technologies as well as resources for students.

 

Luca Cardelli

Luca Cardelli is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge.  He heads the Programming Principles and Tools Group and his main interests are in type theory and operational semantics, mostly for applications to language design and distributed computing. Currently he is working in Computational Systems Biology.

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Barbara Cassin

Barbara Cassin is a philologist and philosopher and a senior research scientist at the CNRS. She specializes in Greek philosophy and manages the Léon Robin Centre for research into ancient thought, at CNRS-Paris IV.  She is the acclaimed author of L’Effet sophistique (Gallimard, 1995), and coordinated the publication of Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies (Seuil/Le Robert, 2004). In 2007, Barbara Cassin published a critical work concerning Google entitled, Google-me: America’s second mission (Ambin-Michel). In this book, she conducts a philosophical examination of Google’s two principal lines: “Our mission is to organize all the information in the world; Don't be evil”.
She demonstrates that these lines are expressed by two keynotes: organize and do good. How then, can we not be reminded of president Bush’s rhetoric, that has concluded each of his speeches since 11 September 2001, appealing to wage the “just war”, and “the monumental struggle of Good and Evil” in the name of God?
Barbara Cassin uses the extraordinary history of Google, the “best” search engine, invented by two students from Stanford, from its development up to its sensational entrance onto the stock exchange, to approach the decisive question of the cultural dimension of democracy from an entirely new angle.

 

Jérôme Chailloux

Jérôme Chailloux is General Manager of the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and Site Manager of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Europe. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher and research director at INRIA (National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control), France, in the areas of automatic VLSI design, software engineering, and knowledge-based systems. He was the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp. He co-founded ILOG in 1987, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director. Starting in 1995, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET and led one of the largest European team of bioinformaticians.

 

Norbert Corsino

Nicole and Norbert Corsino, choreographers and directors who create choreographies combining images, sounds and new technologies. They have transformed representation spaces for dance by presenting their choreographic fictions in the form of films and multimedia installations. In 1993 they were awarded the Villa Médicis hors les murs prize for their research into Life Forms, an interactive chorographical composition software.  They are currently conducting research into 3D and cloned performers. Their latest creation Seule avec loup is a 3D choreographic interaction produced in collaboration with the BUNRAKU research project-team from INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique/ Irisa, Ircam and Ars Numerica: the audience is invited to participate in a stroll through an enchanted forest...

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Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo is currently a professor at the Université Paris 7, having served as a senior lecturer at the École normale supérieure in Paris (computer science laboratory). A member of the AFUL, the French association for Linux users and open source software, he is well known for his involvement in the field of open source software and his talents as a professor. He is a regular guest speaker at conferences on subjects related to open source software.  Roberto Di Cosmo focuses his research upon the technological and strategic challenges facing the information society. He is actively involved in the “citizens debate” (specializing in communication between institutions and the general public in France) and many of his publications have gained widespread recognition, including:
- a pamphlet in 1998 about the Internet: Piège dans le cyberspace (trap in cyberspace)
- Le Hold-up planétaire : la face cachée de Microsoft (Hijacking the World: The Dark Side of Microsoft). This book was written with the journalist Dominique Nora and is currently available free of charge under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.

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Jean-Pierre Dalbera

Jean-Pierre Dalbera is advisor to the Director of Research and Technology at the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisation, in Marseille), with whom he has set up a new web portal devoted to ethnological research. He is Associate Researcher at the LEDEN laboratory, Paris VIII University and works with the Georges Pompidou Centre, the Ecole du Louvre, the Natural History Museum and the CNRS to promote new forms of communication and dialogue with the public in the areas of science and culture. In the 1990s, he was one of the pioneers in putting French culture on the Net, coordinating the first national scheme to digitise French cultural heritage and producing key multimedia publications on major archaeological sites and national celebrations, winning a number of awards at international festivals. He has represented France on the bodies in charge of coordinating EU digital policies and been involved in major international projects on developing the information society, such as MINERVA, STRABON and MICHAEL.

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Gilles Dowek

Gilles Dowek is Director of Research at INRIA and heads the LOGICAL project-team. He is also a Professor at the École Polytechnique and a researcher at the École Polytechnique’s Computer Science Laboratory (LIX). He is an advisor to the National Institute of Aerospace, a NASA Langley research centre laboratory. His research focuses on formalising mathematics, on demonstration processing systems related to quantum programming language design and on safety for aerospace systems. He has written several works aimed at explaining maths and science theory in layman’s terms. He was awarded the Grand Prix for Philosophy from the Académie Française for his book, Les métamorphoses du calcul.

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Olivier Faugeras

Olivier Faugeras is Research Director at INRIA (National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control),where he leads the ODYSSEE laboratory located in Sophia-Antipolis and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. His research interests include the application of mathematics to computer and biological vision, shape representation and recognition, the use of functional imaging (MR, MEG, EEG) for understanding brain activity and in particular visual perception.
He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy of Technology.

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Patrice Flichy

Patrice Flichy is professor of sociology at the université de Marne-la-Vallée and a researcher at the  Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés. He is editor of Réseaux, a bimonthly social science journal devoted to the relationship between technology, communication and society. His research focuses mainly on studying telecommunication engineering. Part of his research into the Internet has highlighted the role of the imagination in technology design, a phenomenon that to date has been widely ignored in the sociology of technology and innovation.

A few of his works published by La Découverte:

- L’imaginaire d’Internet, 2001
- L'innovation technique Récents développements en sciences sociales, vers une nouvelle théorie de l'innovation, 1995
- Une histoire de la communication moderne. Espace public et vie privée, 1991

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Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau

Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau is Head of Research at INRIA and scientific coordinator for the joint REO project team (on digital simulation of biological flows) involving the INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt research centre and Paris VI University.
His research focuses on digital simulation and analysis in the field of incompressible fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction problems in the cardiovascular system, cardiac electrophysiology and magnetohydrodynamics.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the review, ESAIM Proceedings, and a member of the editorial board for the review, Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis.

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Pascal Griset

Pascal Griset is Professor of Contemporary History at Paris-Sorbonne University, (Paris IV) and Head of the Centre for Research on History and Innovation.
 Specialising in the economic and technical history of information science, his work also covers the history of innovation in Europe and the USA.

He is co-author, with Alain Beltran, of "Histoire d'un pionnier de l'informatique". The book traces the forty years of the history of France’s National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control from the introduction of the Plan Calcul (Computational Plan) to the present day.

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Jacques Haiech

Jacques Haiech is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and teaches biotechnology at the Ecole supérieure de biotechnologie de Strasbourg (ESBS). He is also in charge of the Biotechnology Master's programme at the city's Pharmacy Faculty. From 1999 to 2002, he directed the national genomics programme which set up the life science technology platforms and "Génopole" genomics research centres in France. He currently heads the medicines branch of the Strasbourg-Alsace-Lorraine genomics research centre as well as PCBIS, the Strasbourg integrated biological chemistry platform of the Institut Gilbert Laustriat, specialising in research into biomolecules, biotechnology and therapeutic innovation (CNRS/University of Strasbourg 1). This is the first French and European academic research centre devoted to the discovery of new medicines. Jacques Haiech is the co-inventor of an Alzheimer's drug currently undergoing clinical trials. He is also a member of the Futuris strategic steering council and has had more than 130 articles published in international journals.
A former student of the Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, he has an agrégation (the highest-level teaching diploma in France) in mathematics and a PhD in biology.

 

Armand Hatchuel

Armand Hatchuel is deputy director of the Scientific Management Centre (CGS) at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He runs the Management Sciences doctoral programme and the Design Engineering option.  He is a member of various organisations, in particular: the scientific council of CEREQ; the scientific council of the Health, Environment programme of the ANR; and the editorial committees of the journals Organization Studies, Organization Science, Sociologie du Travail and Flux. Since 2004 he has written the "Management et vie des organisations" column in the Economics section of Le Monde. A graduate engineer of the Ecole des Mines in Paris, with a PhD from ENSMP, he received the Prix "L'Economiste" in 1996, and a Medal from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts in 2003.

He is the author of many publications including:

- "Les processus d'innovation- Conception innovante et croissance des entreprises",  P.Le Masson, B.Weil, A.Hatchuel, Hermès, 2006
- "Gouvernement, organisation et gestion : l’héritage de Michel Foucault", A.Hatchuel, E.Pezet, K.Starkey, O. Lenay dir,Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2005
- "L’innovation, le libéralisme et la question des limites", (Collectif dirigé avec R.Laufer ) Logiques philosophiques L’harmattan Paris (2003)
- "Les nouveaux fondements des sciences de gestion" (Collectif dirigé avec A.David et  R. Laufer) Vuibert/FNEGE, 2001
- "Regards sur l’Innovation" (collectif avec F.Aggeri et D. Fixari) INRA, Collection « Sciences », 2000.
- "L'Expert et le Système. Gestion des savoirs et métamorphose des acteurs dans l'entreprise industrielle"  (avec B. Weil),  Economica, Paris 1992

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Jean-Marie Hullot

Researcher, R&D director, Business Angel and start-up creator in the field of innovative technologies, Jean-Marie Hullot has an extremely varied international career path. An INRIA researcher from 1979 to 1985, he then went on to join NeXT Computer in the United States. He was the chief designer of the NextStep user interface, now integrated into the Mac OS X – the latest operating system to be released by Apple Computers. He directed research and development at NeXT Computer until 1996, when Apple Computer took over the company. In 1996, he co-founded RealNames, an Internet start-up based in the United States of America that develops a web addressing system making it possible for users to surf the net in their own language. In 1997 he returned to France where he was to assist in the creation of several French technological start-ups. In 2001, he joined Apple Computer as Chief Technical Officer in the Applications department. He carries out his functions from Paris, where he also directs the Parisian research and development laboratory for Apple Computer. A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de St Cloud, Jean-Marie Hullot has a PhD in computer science from the université de Paris-XI Orsay.

 

Olivier Iteanu

Olivier Iteanuis a lawyer. A specialist in new technologies, he was the first author to publish a work on French law and the Internet: Internet et le droit - aspects juridiques du commerce électronique (éditions Eyrolles, 1996).  He teaches at the université Paris XI and publishes many journals with the Paris Bar Association, destined for both professionals and the general public.   His latest works include:

Tous Cybercriminels published by éditions Jacques-Marie Laffont (2004) and a white paper entitled Livre blanc sur la responsabilité des chefs d’entreprise face aux risques informatiques, published by édition Risc Group (2006), which has attracted widespread attention from the media.

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Patrick Johnson

Patrick Johnson is currently Director in charge of Research activites for Dassault Systèmes. In this position, his responsibility is to detect, investigate, invent, and create new innovativetechnologies for DS customers’ business transformations and success, and continuously bring value to the DS brands and solutions.Mr. Johnson joined Dassault Systèmes in 1996 and has held various positions in R&D, developing the V5 Object and Data Modeling Infrastructure as well as Mechanical Design solutions for CATIA. He became head of the CATIA Knowledgeware Department in 2001 and, convinced by the potential of thisdomain, was instrumental in delivering key breakthrough solutions nowused by the engineering industry community, such as intelligent morphing templates usage, or business processes capitalization and automation. In 2003, he was appointed Technical Assistant to Dassault Systèmes’ president and CEO Bernard Charlès, and took up his present post in late 2004.Mr. Johnson graduated from SupAero (Ecole Supérieure de l'Aeronatique de l'Espace) in 1994, and obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science in 1995. He is based at DS headquarters in Suresnes, near Paris.

 

Henri de Maublanc

Henri de Maublanc is the co-chairman and founder of the Aquarelle.com group, Europe's leading online flower shop, now present in 8 countries - France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States. Henri de Maublanc is also chairman of the Clarisse group, which he set up in 1985 and which operates the largest server centre in Europe working in a wide variety of fields (gaming, travel, banking services, weather, financial information, e-commerce, media). Clarisse develops its online business direct (Aquarelle.com) and through minority shareholdings, strategic consultancy to companies (GM-Consultants) and media consultancy and web space buying (Poster Conseil, a leading player in the French advertising market), (MyMedia Interactive, in the internet market). Henri de Maublanc is President of ACSEL (Association pour le Commerce et les Services En-Ligne), a member of the CANAL+ Group Advisory Committee for Technology, a member of the supervisory board of Debitel (MVNO, mobile phone operator in France) and a director of Chapitre.com (online bookshop).

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Henri de Maublanc was previously (1984-1985) director of development for "Le Nouvel Observateur" press group, and managed the French campaign for the Americas Cup (1981-1983). He began his career in the Exxon Group (1977-1981).

 

Robin Milner

Robin Milner, member of the French Academy of Sciences, has held posts as a professor at the universities of London, Edinburgh, Stanford and Cambridge. He is renowned for his three major contributions to computer science:
1. LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving, used to automatically demonstrate mathematical assertions
2. ML language
3. Theoretical framework used to analyze concurrent systems, the calculus of communicating systems (CCS), and its successor, the pi-calculus

These three inventions earned him the ACM’s Turing prize in 1991.  His current research activities focus on issues and challenges facing computer science. He regularly participates in international events and is involved in bodies such as the Academy of Science in Beijing.

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Philippe Morel

Philippe Morel, the architect, is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research and teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais. He has written extensively about the impact of technology on “global deurbanism” (Vivre à l’ère de glace, an analysis of contemporary capitalism and the associated domestic biomedical economy, Masters thesis, 2001-2002). More recently, he has given papers at numerous symposiums and conferences including Loopholes within Discourse and Practice (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2005), Script (Florence, 2005), The Architecture of Possibility (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2005), GameSetMatchII (TU Delft, 2006), at Columbia Graduate School of Planning and Preservation and the MIT Department of Architecture (“Quelques remarques sur l’épistémologie et l’architecture computationnelle”, March 2006. He recently organised the exhibition, “L’architecture au-delà des formes : le tournant computationnel” at the Maison de l’Architecture et de la Ville in Marseille and was joint winner, with his EZCT Architecture & Design Research agency, of the international Pavillon Seroussi competition. His work and that of his agency can be found in the FRAC Centre collections and at the Pompidou Centre.

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Arnaud Mulliez

Arnaud Mulliez is Chairman of Auchan France and of the Industries du Commerce competitiveness cluster that brings together 60 companies and fifteen laboratories and institutes, including INRIA.

It constitutes an arena for innovation essential if Lille is to become a commercial capital of the future, a natural ambition for this region located at the crossroads of Europe, with a unique potential of some 100 million European consumers within a radius of 300 kilometres.

 

 

Thierry Pollet

Thierry Pollet is Director Research and Innovation at Alcatel-Lucent. In 2004, he was in charge study of service delivery technology for java based service platforms and specification of the architecture of the service delivery platforms for different applications domains (IMS, IPTV, NGN).

In 2005 he took the role as deputy director of the CTO R&I strategic project on Delivery of Integrated Services. He coordinated the study of different technologies (J2EE, JAIN-SLEE, .NET) for application servers and evaluation of platforms for service delivery.

From January 2006 onwards, he is director of the strategic R&I project on Service Delivery Platforms and OSS/BSS. This project investigate emerging service architectures, middleware technologies and service enablers for the service provider that will allow him and his business partners to create, deploy and operate these services. This includes adoption of SOA for telco services, WS-technology, Orchestration and investigation how the IMS (SIP) domain can be blended with the IPTV.

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Jean-Michel Salaün

Jean-Michel Salaün is director of the Library and Information Science School at the University of Montreal. Prior to holding this position, he was a professor at ENSIBB and directed the Documents and Content network at CNRS. He is the author of several works devoted to information and documentation and publishes an interesting monitor blog entitled "Retrieving document economy data in digital environments”.

 

 

 

Michel Serres

Michel Serres is a philosopher and member of the French Academy. His rather atypical career path has taken him from the French Naval Academy to the Académie Française, via several French universities (Clermont- Ferrand, Vincennes, Paris I) and Stanford University in the United States.

Michel Serres is an unshakeable optimist when it comes to the development of new technology. This visionary and science historian sees the upheavals experienced by today's society as part of Man's ongoing evolution – see his lecture on the Interstices website (link below). As an epistemologist, he also takes an interest in education and the dissemination of knowledge. He is the author of some fifty works, many of which are aimed at making science more accessible to non-specialists.

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David Symplot-Ryl

David Simplot-Ryl is professor of computer science at the Lille Computer Science Laboratory, where he also heads the POPS project-team.
His research focuses on sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded operating systems, smart objects and RFID technologies.

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Bruno Sportisse

Since 2002, Bruno Sportisse, Chief Civil Engineer, has been Director of the CEREA, the French centre for research on the atmospheric environment, a laboratory run jointly by the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (National Institute of Civil Engineering) and EDF R&D. He is also joint Manager of INRIA’s CLIME Project (Coupling environmental data and numerical simulation models for software integration). His research is focused on modelling and simulating atmospheric pollution.

He is the author of Pollution atmosphérique : des processus à la modélisation.

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Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stieger, a trained philosopher, is director of the Cultural Development Department in the Georges–Pompidou centre. Prior to holding this position, he was director of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), deputy managing director of the French National Audiovisual Institute and director of research at the International College of Philosophy. Mr Stiegler has also created the “Knowledge, organisation and technical systems” research laboratory at the université de  technologie in Compiègne, where work focuses on cognitive technology that is as relevant in the fields of text and image and sound, as it is in terms of perception and handicaps. He has written half a dozen outstanding books, as well as numerous articles. He travels extensively and participates in international cultural events.

Main recent publications:
- De la démocratie participative : Fondements et limites (avec Marc Crépon), éditions des mille et une nuits, 2007
- De la misère spirituelle, 2006 
- Philosopher par accident - Entretiens avec Elie During, Galilée, 2004
- De la misère symbolique - L'époque hyperindustrielle Tome 1, Galilée, 2004
- La technique et le temps - T3 Le temps du cinéma et la question du  mal-être, Galilée, 2001.

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Steve Sullivan

Steve Sullivan joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1998 to develop computer vision techniques for visual effects production. Working within ILM's R&D group, he led a team creating systems for matchmoving, photogrammetry, image-based rendering, and motion capture. He has worked on over 50 films, and in 2002 received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the MARS motion and structure recovery system. Later in 2002, he became Director of Research and Development, and in 2004 initiated an effort to unify ILM film technologies and LucasArts game technologies in a common framework for all the Lucas companies. In 2007, Steve received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for ILM’s Image-based Modeling system. He currently leads the R&D effort for all the Lucas companies, creating next-generation artist technology for film, games, animation, and television.

Prior to ILM, Sullivan received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, with an emphasis on automatic object modeling, recognition, and surface representations. After graduation, Sullivan spent two years with Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles, developing animation and 3D tracking software before joining ILM.

Feature Films : Pirates of the caribbean: at world’s end – R&D, (2007), Nightmare before christmas 3d – R&D (2006), Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - R&D (2004), The hulk - R&D (2003),  Minority report - R&D (2002), Jurassic park III - R&D (2001), A.I. artificial intelligence - R&D (2001), The green mile - R&D (1999), Sleepy hollow - R&D (1999), Star wars: episode I “the phantom menace” - R&D (1999)...

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Alex Türk

Alex Türk has a legal background and holds a PhD in public law and is currently president of the CNIL. Senator of the Nord (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) region, he is a member of the French constitutional law commission, member of the French Delegation for the European Union and serves on the New Technologies, Media and Society study group. Mr Türk is a senior lecturer in public law, and has been an elected member of state in his region for many years; he is also a general councillor in the Nord region (Lille-centre district).

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Vincent Quint

Vincent Quint is Director of Research at INRIA, in charge of the WAM project team. He has been involved in web development for the last twelve years or so. He has held various positions at W3C and coordinated projects on many key web technologies. Until the beginning of 2007, he was joint supervisor of the group in charge of web architecture. He is a member of the W3C advisory board.

His current research focuses on multimedia web development and web data processing.