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How did our ancestors walk?

How did Australopitecus, Homo habilis and our other ancestors or "cousins" work? To find out, the biomechanics and computer scientists of the HoBis project are modeling the walking of human specimens covered with sensors, but also that of baboons, occasional adepts of movement on their two hind legs... To discover this report proposed by the CNRS in partnership with LeMonde.fr (in french) Franck [..]

Award & nomination
Symposium Micro 2020 et nom du prix B. RAMAKRISHNA RAU -logo IEEE Computer Society

The B. Ramakrishna Rau Award to André SEZNEC

André Seznec, Research Director at Inria/IRSA, member of the PACAP team, was once again rewarded at the international symposium of Microarchitecture 2020. Created in memory of B. Ramakrishna Rau, this award is presented in recognition of his brilliant career in promoting and expanding the use of innovative techniques in computer microarchitecture, including his innovation in compiler technology [..]

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Career Award for JM Jézéquel obtained at ACM/IEEE MODELS 20

Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Professor at the University of Rennes1, Director of IRISA and specialist in software engineering, awarded a Career Award at the 23rd ACM/IEEE international conference MODELS 20 "Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems". This Career Award recognizes Professor JM Jézéquel's longstanding scientific and leadership contributions to the MDE community and identifies him as a [..]

Colloquium & conference
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BDA 2020 Days: strong participation of our scientists

36th Conference on Data Management - Principles, Technologies and Applications: Discover the program Due to the current health situation and its multiple implications, the BDA 2020 conference will be online and free for everyone. Free registration is required.

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Two people slipped into the same body . . . virtually!

The experience is unprecedented. So much so that it has led to the invention of a word: co-incarnation. This experience consists of two people sharing the simultaneous control of one and the same avatar. This milestone opens up an array of possibilities, in particular in the field of VR-based training. Débutées en 2018, les résultats de ces expériences surprenantes sont parus dans l'édition de [..]

Colloquium & conference
Visuel avec titre des 2 colloques et logo CNRS

Health & Technology Meetings: DNA, polymers and big data - Brain-Computer Interfaces

Two colloquia co-organized by the CNRS (INSIS, INSB, INC, INS2I, INP, INSHS), the National Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Technology. The first meetings will focus on two areas whose recent developments are spectacular, and which have been the subject of recent reports from the Academies of Technology and Medicine: the storage of information at the molecular level on DNA as on other types [..]

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Death of Yves Bekkers

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Yves Bekkers, a university professor in computer science, on Thursday, October 8, 2020. He was 73 years old. Researcher at Inria from 1975 to 1984, then Inria research director from 1984 to 1995, Yves Bekkers was on secondment at the University of Rennes 1 from 1993 to 1995, then professor at the University of Rennes 1 since 1995. Yves was [..]

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The 5G, how it works explained by Xavier Lagrange on The Conversation

Xavier Lagrange, Professor of Network Systems at IMT Atlantique and member of the ADOPNET team, explains the technological aspects of 5G operation on the Conversation site. Read the article (in French)