For two days, from 8 to 10 February, Antoine, Emilien, Gaël, Ilyès, Marius, Rémi, Rose, Thaïs, Théophile and Timéo came to IRISA and the Inria centre at the University of Rennes for their observation period. To help them discover computer science research and its various professions, some fifteen people - researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers, doctoral students and administrative staff - [..]
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Introducing computer science research to secondary school students ...

Don't miss these two events in May to meet us
On Thursday 05 May, come and discover and play the game of paume in virtual reality. As part of "La Semaine du Jeu", IRISA invites you to discover and play a game "jeu de paume" in virtual reality on Thursday 5 May, from 10am to 4pm. The project around the game of paume follows on from a collaboration between the Hybrid team and the Inrap, which carried out excavations on the site of the salle du [..]

A look back at an observation period for 3rd year secondary school students
As it does every year, IRISA welcomes ninth-grade students for an observation period. Despite the increased use of teleworking at the beginning of 2022, IRISA and the Inria Bretagne Atlantique centre welcomed nine secondary school students to help them discover research and its various professions. A look back at these three days of training at the end of January ... Discovering and explaining [..]

My thesis in 180 seconds : Come and support our three young researchers
Among the 16 young researchers who will take part in the "My Thesis in 180 seconds" competition on 1 March, three are at IRISA We wish good luck to the 16 young researchers who will be taking the stage at the Espace des Sciences on Tuesday 1 March, and more particularly to Joan, Maxime and Salomé, PhD students at IRISA. Joan Thibault, member of the research team Hycomes Maxime Robic, member of the [..]

Artificial intelligence and satellites: observing (to protect) our planet. Conference for the general public
Conference in french only Le conférencier, Sébastien LEFEVRE Sébastien Lefèvre est Professeur des Universités en Informatique à l'Université Bretagne Sud. Au sein du laboratoire IRISA, il a fondé en 2013 l'équipe OBELIX qui mène des travaux en intelligence artificielle pour l'observation de la terre et de l'environnement. Il est aujourd'hui responsable du parcours GeoData Science offert par l'UBS [..]

Green IT... less trendy?
The Internet is increasingly spreading around the world, connecting more and more objects. (conference in french only) Ceux-ci s'appuient sur des services informatiques hébergés dans des grands centres de calcul tout autour du globe et utilisant souvent eux-mêmes de nombreux autres services informatiques et une multitude d’équipements numériques. Combien d’énergie consomment toutes ces [..]

On Wednesday 10 November, some fifty secondary school teachers came to IRISA and the Inria centre for training.
On Wednesday 10 November, some fifty secondary school teachers were welcomed to a special teachers' session entitled "J'peux pas, j'ai informatique" (I can't, I've got IT) at the Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique centre and at IRISA. Around fifty teachers of mathematics, technology, the SNT option and even English, from secondary schools and high schools in Rennes, Pontivy, Vannes and elsewhere in [..]

Once again this year, IRISA is taking part in the Fête de la science in Rennes
Let's meet from 03 to 09 October, at the Champs Libres in Rennes. This year, we are honouring our Linkmedia team! Linkmedia, one of our 38 research teams, offers you a dive into the field of multimedia. Linkmedia aims to provide techniques and tools to help us explore the nature of extremely large collections of multimedia documents. This work has many applications, notably in the fight against [..]