2007

Pirated Images Spotted Faster

Research at Irisa contributes to speed Thomson’s software for identification of pirated video files on P2P networks.

New e-Review in Computer Graphics

A French-written electronic bulletin on computer graphics, REFIG aims at reaching a 200-strong community of researchers as well as corportate readership. Irisa Stéphane Donikian is editor-in-chief.

Peerple at Paris Linux Expo 07

Born of a collaboration between Inria search teams Asap and Gyroweb, PEERPLE is a new software for storing and sharing files through secure peer-to-peer (P2P). This open source software will premiere at Paris Linux Expo, Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2007.

Kerlabs in the Wake of Kerrighed

Irisa spinoff Kerlabs to show Kerrighed cluster operating system at Paris Linux Expo, Jan. 30 - Feb 1, 2007.

Better Interoperability for Healthcare Information Systems

IHE stands for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. This forum is dedicated to stimulating integration of healthcare information resources, thus improving clinical care. Irisa research engineer Eric Poiseau is technical manager for IHE Europe.

Analysis, Modelling and Simulation for Human Movements

Researcher Franck Multon explores the magic of simulating human motions and helps design the digital plants of tomorrow.

Optimizing Simulation for Human Movements

At Irisa research center, Franck Multon works on improving the simulation of human motions with ambition of designing the digital factories of tomorrow.

Formal Verification and Conformance Testing for Reactive Systems

Computer errors may have dramatic economical or human consequences. The correctness of execution is thus essential. INRIA/Irisa researcher Vlad Rusu works on improving the reliability of their programming.

Branch Prediction under Scrutiny for Possible Security Flaw

Branch predictors allow processors to execute the next instructions without waiting for the previous ones to be resolved. These predictors are crucial for achieving high performance. But a recently published research suggests that this CPU feature might as well encompass some security weakness. A branch prediction specialist at Irisa/INRIA research center, André Seznec explains what it is all about.

INRIA’s Literature Goes Open Access

The French research community is veering toward open access publishing under flagship of HAL web depository. Research institute INRIA has joined the move. Its scientific production is now available on this server, featuring archives, fresh papers, conference proceedings and so forth.

2006 research project activity reports

Access the various views offered by the RalyX System, including : Keywords and full text search ; Publications lists by scientist, by Themes, by Research Unit ; Staff lists by category, by affiliation type, by Research Unit

Virtual Reality Room Retrofitted

The modernization of the VR room at Irisa will give researchers better experiment conditions at a moment when new missions on car engineering and digital plants loom ahead.

Inria Joins Open Cluster Group

Through this new partnership, the institute plans to fully integrate its cluster operating system Kerrighed within OCG-sponsored Oscar, a specialized software distribution for clusters. This membership is also recognition of Inria's work with regard to the Oscar project.

How L’Ecuyer Fine Tunes Number Randomization

A world specialist of random number generation, Canadian mathematician Pierre L’Ecuyer is currently visiting Irisa thanks to financial support from INRIA, CNRS, IFSIC, and The Métivier Foundation (1). In conjunction with the newly-created Dionysos research team, he works on improving computerized simulations of rare events.

CSU-INRIA Teamwork on Model Driven Engineering

Professor Robert France from Colorado State University, is currently visiting Inria/Irisa institute. American and French research teams are working together on defining tools for model-driven engineering, a nascent approach to making software development more manageable. A long-term goal is to provide technologies that allow developers to more easily transform ideas into software systems that work in a dependable manner.

LIS Reconciles Searching and Browsing

Logical Information Systems (LIS) is a new research team within Irisa. Led by Olivier Ridoux, the group investigates the intricacies of an alternative logico-contextual paradigm for querying and navigating.

What do bibliometric indicators tell us about scientific output?

Bibliometric indicators enjoy a certain following in the scientific community and are used to assess researchers and institutions or to compare the performances of European research systems. Admittedly, these indicators have their uses, but they often point towards a situation that is far removed from the reality they are supposed to describe. INRIA's evaluation committee studying this problem and has set up a think-tank. Its coordinator gives us a low-down of its results.

Camelis Helps Organize Pics and MP3s

An implementation of Logical Information Systems (LIS), Camelis is library manager designed to help the layman organize all kind of data.

How GEOLIS helps Rodent Tracking

GEOLIS is a prototype web application that aims at showing what a Logical Information System (LIS) can bring to mapping tools and geographical data exploration.

Formal Concept Analysis

Formal Concept Analysis: a binary relation describing a set of objects by a set of properties.

ADEPT: A New Project Team Within INRIA

A group of six researchers dedicated to asynchronous distributed environments, ADEPT has been raised to the rank of full project team. These scientists help networks to cope with crash failures and man-made adversity.

New Director Takes Helm at Rennes branch of INRIA and at IRISA

On July 1st, 2007, Patrick Bouthemy has started his tenure as the new Director of Irisa, the Rennes-based branch of INRIA research centre and IRISA. Until now, this specialist of motion analysis was a research director and head of Irisa’s Vista research team. He will succeed Claude Labit who has accomplished the two four-year statutory mandates at the head of this computer science laboratory. Interview.

Labit’s Legacy

During the 8-years tenure of Claude Labit at the helm of Inria-Rennes and Irisa, the research center has doubled its size reaching a total line-up of 600 professionals working in 30-some research teams. After finishing his two statutory mandates, the now former director looks back at the experience. Interview.

Annual Report 2006

The Annual Report presents a retrospective of the year 2006 and focuses on 10 exciting stories of sciences accessible to all public.

Break Our Watermarking System

Robustness against image processing