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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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Awards & Distinctions
Computer science offers deeper understanding of sound
Philippe Manoury, born in Tulle (in the French department of Corrèze) in 1952, is Professor of Music at the University of San Diego in California. He has been named Best Composer of the Year at the 2012 French Victoires de la Musique Classique for his opera La nuit de Gutenburg, composed using Antescofo software. This tool was developed by Arshia Cont, a researcher at Inria and Ircam.
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Appointment
Paul Jolie appointed Chief Officer for Resources and Service Administration
Paul Jolie has been appointed Chief Officer for Resources and Service Administration with effect from 1st March. He replaces Hervé Mathieu, who has been appointed as advisor to the CEO.
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2012 Inria Awards
Until 11 March, nominate your candidates!
On 14 June in Paris, the "Inria Awards" ceremony will take place for the second consecutive year. After Gérard Huet, Bruno Levy, Stéphane Donikian... who will be the 2012 prize winners? In your immediate surroundings, perhaps you know a researcher or a team of scientists whose research results, vision, action, and originality of approach contribute to advances in computer sciences and mathematics for the development of our society. Inria invites you to nominate your candidates.
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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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European Research Council 2011
Marie-Paule Cani wishes to make 3D virtual creation available to all
Thanks to the Advanced Grant awarded to her by the European Research Council (ERC), aimed at experienced researchers, Marie-Paule Cani, a university professor at the INP Grenoble, will finance five years of research into the design of animated virtual shapes within the framework of her IMAGINE team, shared with Inria Grenoble and with the Jean Kuntzmann laboratory (CNRS and Universities of Grenoble). She hopes to make the digital tool as intuitive as simply using pen and paper, and much more efficient.
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European Research Council 2011
Nicholas Ayache: "Medical Imagery and I.T.: the personalised digital patient"
Nicholas Ayache is the 2011 winner of an ERC grant worth 2.5 million Euros, aimed at experienced researchers. With many years of commitment to researching the analysis and simulation of medical images, he will now be able to rise to a major challenge: to design digital models of organs and pathologies enabling the incorporation of a patient's medical images and the simulation of the progress of their pathology and the suitability of the treatments before they are applied.
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European Research Council 2011
Dale Miller: “Making proof universal”
As the beneficiary of an ERC Advanced Grant for experienced researchers, Dale Miller has embarked on the difficult path of establishing proof. His aim? In this field, which is highly abstract but which has a definite impact on the real world, he wishes to standardise proof systems and issue certificates for such systems in order to promote greater confidence in them.
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Partnership
Inria works on ALMA, the world’s largest radio telescope project
Inria and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), alongside the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, the French National Academy for Arts and Crafts), are working together to design the man-machine interfaces that will control the revolutionary radio-telescope currently being built in the Atacama desert, to the north of Chile.
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