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Education
First digital school book "Computer and Digital Sciences"
The subject Computer and Digital Sciences will become part of the French high-school system’s scientific program this coming September! For this purpose, Gilles Dowek has created the first digital school book dedicated to teaching this subject!
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Commerce
RFID breaks the box office
A conundrum: A delivery pallet contains 50 boxes: how can you know their content without opening them or using x-rays? By using their Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tags and their radio signals! Too expensive to be used on a massive scale, one can reduce their cost by printing them on the packaging boxes. From storage to product distribution, the entire production chain gains in terms of efficiency and environmental impact.
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Computational medicine
Inria's skills furthering the surgery of the future
Inria is participating in three of the six projects selected as part of the "Future Investments" programme organised by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and launched in 2010. These projects are all being carried out within university health institutes combining care, research and training (IHUs). We take a closer look at MIX-Surg, Strasbourg's IHU for image-guided minimally invasive surgery, with Stéphane Cotin, whose team, Shacra, is a key contributor to the project.
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Radiolaires
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Environnement
The Tara Expedition: plankton tells us a lot about our climate
Saturday September 5, 2009. The Tara vessel leaves Lorient for a two and a half year expedition across the world’s oceans. This expedition is the first attempt to carry out a global study of marine plankton. The aim is to increase our knowledge of this ecosystem, by studying its biodiversity and by better understanding its key role in regulating the climate. A specialist in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, Laurent Noé, a member of the Bonsai project team, talks about the expertise of his team on this voyage.
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Internet des objets
Objects that are able to communicate
Nathalie Mitton is the leader of the Pops project team at the Inria Lille – Nord Europe Research Centre. She obtained her habilitation to advise doctoral theses in a rapidly expanding field: the internet of objects. RFID tags and sensor networks – what is the current focus of researchers’ efforts?
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Survey
How much do French people understand of the digital world?
Health, industry, transport, agriculture, communication, the environment… no field has escaped the profound impact of digital sciences and technology – inventions that are moulding the contours of a “New World” today. This daily reality, at once invisible, diverse and omnipresent, raises a fundamental question: how much do French people understand of the digital world in which they live?
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Projet Sysiass
A more intelligent wheelchair
The aim of the Franco-English Sysiass project is to design an intelligent wheelchair that is able to provide patients with improved mobility, as well as facilitate care in hospital or at home. It is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of an Interreg programme ("IV A 2 Mers").
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Specif prize
Gilles Kahn PhD prize, 2010 vintage
On 3 February 2011, in Grenoble, three young researchers will be honoured. During a joint ceremony with the French Academy of Sciences, they will officially receive the 2010 Gilles Kahn PhD prize awarded by SPECIF (the association of computer science teaching and research staff in France). The winner of the first prize, Xavier Allamigeon, has just been recruited into the MAXPLUS team at Inria Saclay - Île-de-France. The two second prize winners, Sébastien Bubeck and Stanley Durrleman, studied for their PhDs in one of the Institute's project teams before continuing post-doctoral research abroad. Spotlight on these three bright new stars from 2010.
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Financial mathematics
Mathematical models to sell the right product at the right price at the right time… and to the right customer
Luce Brotcorne, a junior research scientist at Inria since 2009, is a member of the DOLPHIN project-team. Her field is revenue management, in particular price setting, a discipline in which she proposes an innovative approach which explicitly takes into account the behaviour of consumers.
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