220 people came to discover the JURASTIC exhibition on Saturday, October 11, at Le Diapason in Rennes. A historical heritage of computer equipment was on display to the general public as part of the 50th anniversary of the IRISA laboratory Several IRISA scientists accompanied the visits, explaining the old machines and inventions that have marked history. The younger visitors enjoyed discovering [..]
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220 visits to see the computer dinosaurs at the JURASTIC exhibition
Explore 50 years of computer history with the JURASTIC exhibition!
To mark the 50th anniversary of IRISA and the 2025 Science Festival, the JURASTIC exhibition takes you on a journey through the history of computing, from the 1970s to the present day. Featuring legendary computers and retro devices, the exhibition shows how advances in hardware have accompanied major advances in scientific research. It will take place at Le Diapason on the Beaulieu campus from [..]
Great news for our former doctoral students at the GDR Distributed Networks and Systems conference
Congratulations to Léo Lavaur former doctoral student in the SOTERN research team, who received the GDR RSD 2025 thesis award for his thesis entitled « Improving Intrusion Detection in Distributed Systems with Federated Learning » supervised by Yann BUSNEL, Marc-Oliver PAHL and Fabien AUTREL, members of the SOTERN research team. The jury appreciated the very high quality of the manuscript, both in [..]
Distinguished Artifact Award for Nicolas Bailluet, member of the PACAP team
Congratulations to Nicolas Bailluet, a PhD student at the University of Rennes in the PACAP research team, who won the Distinguished Artifact Award at the USENIX Security 2025 For the article " Nothing is Unreachable: Automated Synthesis of Robust Code-Reuse Gadget Chains for Arbitrary Exploitation Primitives" Autors : Nicolas Bailluet, Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA; Emmanuel Fleury, Univ [..]
Guest of the month: Manuel Wimmer - #50yearsIRISA
As part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations, don't miss our next guest of the month: Manuel Wimmer, on October 28 at 9:30 a.m. He will be speaking at Informatics Europe, a symposium taking place from October 27 to 29 in Rennes. Don't forget to register!
50 years of artificial intelligence, what next?
Avec Élisa Fromont, remontons aux sources de l’Intelligence Artificielle pour mieux la comprendre. Le 16 septembre à l'Espace des Sciences Contrairement aux idées reçues, l’IA n’est pas une invention récente : ses origines remontent à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Élisa Fromont, professeure en informatique à l’Université de Rennes, chercheuse à l'IRISA, replacera le sous-domaine de l [..]
"Visites Insolites" organised by the CNRS at IRISA, on 13 October at 2pm - Registration before 17 September
(only in french) Les visites Insolites du CNRS proposent chaque année des expériences uniques, en groupe restreint, au cœur de la recherche. Sites inaccessibles, expériences atypiques, rendez-vous singuliers sont au programme sur l’ensemble du territoire pour les quelques privilégiés tirés au sort. Dans le cadre de ses 50 ans, l'IRISA vous invite au sein du laboratoire pour toucher le virtuel et [..]
IRISA researchers receive "10 years Test of Time Award" at ACM DEBS
At IRISA, several researchers have been honored with the "10 years Test of T ime Award " for their paper titled " Efficient key grouping: near-optimal load balancing in stream processing systems", originally published at ACM DEBS 2015 (ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems. Congratulations to the authors! 🔹 Nicolo Rivetti et Leonardo Querzoni (La Sapienza University [..]