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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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Social media
Some trends and challenges for the 2.0 years
According to the Inria/TNS Sofres survey conducted this year, nearly one French person in two declared they could not do without social networks. Such interest on its own proves what a success the social web is, although success is not without an increase in private data now present in cyberspace. A thorough grasp of interaction tools and controlling one’s web image are becoming major challenges for tomorrow’s web, both for individuals and companies… as well as a challenge for researchers developing social web management tools.
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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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Research
Mazyar Mirrahimi: Towards quantum systems engineering
Mazyar Mirrahimi of the Sisyphe team, in collaboration with the group led by Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond of the ENS and Pierre Rouchon of the Ecole des Mines de Paris, recently co-wrote an article published in Nature which has garnered some attention. Interview with an automation engineer fascinated by problems related to quantum physics.
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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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Privacy
How to Skype without being seen!
Skype is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution used by hundreds of millions of people the world over. Inria researchers (Stevens Le Blond, Arnaud Legout and Walid Dabbous) in partnership with a team at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have demonstrated that a malicious user could invade the privacy of any Skype user.
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International
Inria creates centre in Chile
The project to build a research and innovation centre in Chile (the Communication and Information Research and Innovation Center - CIRIC) has been given the go-ahead and will start in 2012. Inria submitted this project as part of a programme for the creation of ‘international centres of excellence for competitiveness’ in Chile.
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Internet of the future
The “popularization” of the web is transforming social relationships
Internet of the New opportunities, new challenges, new risks and new fears are emerging. The Internet of the future, gradually taking shape right now in the research field, has generated numerous debates concerning among other things the protection of privacy.future
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Inria-Urbana champaign
A productive partnership based on high performance computing
As the fifth workshop of the Inria-Urbana-Champaign joint lab (Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing-JLPC) came to an end in Grenoble, Franck Cappello, its co-director, took stock of the activities of this institution dedicated to high-performance computing. Two years after its creation, it was now time to review its most emblematic results and to present its current research on climate and the international G8 Exascale project, with which the joint laboratory is associated.
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