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Save the date: June 8-9, 2017 – Inria@SiliconValley workshop: BIS’2017 in Berkeley!

BIS’2017 – The Inria@SiliconValley workshop with California partners ** Registration is now open until June 1st: GO TO BIS’2017 REGISTRATION** Please note that attending the workshop is free for Inria and affiliate participants but registration is mandatory! The annual BIS workshop is part of the joint research program Inria@SiliconValley. It is co-organized by Inria and …

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Two new Associate Teams and one renewed Team with California Universities

Inria is glad to announce the selection of 2 new Associate Teams with California universities (University of California San Diego and University of California Santa Barbara) as part of the 2017 Inria Associated Team call. The two teams are created in 2017 for 3 years. In addition, one team that was created in 2014 (SNOWBALL formerly SNOWFLAKE) with Stanford …

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Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity – 2017

In 2017, Inria offers 2 Post-Doc fellowships in the framework of the Inria@SiliconValley program. Extended deadline for application is April 15th, 2017. Postdoctoral grants are allocated to support existing associate teams as well as collaborations between Inria and California teams. Candidates interested in the projects currently supported by the Inria@SiliconValley program or projects under preparation for this program are welcome …

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Christine Morin (Inria) & Deb Agarwal (LBNL): An Inria@SiliconValley success story

Christine Morin is a senior researcher at Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique and scientific leader of the Myriads Inria project-team. Deb Agarwal is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she is the head of the Data Science and Technology Department. Over the years, Deb and Christine developed a strong research collaboration supported by Inria@SiliconValley. Since September 2011, Christine  has been …

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Interview: Camille Crittenden, Deputy Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Dr. Camille Crittenden serves as Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Director of the CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative, and Executive Director of the CITRIS Social Apps Lab. Prior to coming to CITRIS in 2012, she was Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, where she helped to develop its program …

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Focus on a joint research project: ORESTE

ORESTE (2012-2017) Optimal reroute strategies for traffic management Principal Investigators:  Dr. Paola Goatin, ACUMES team, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée Prof. Alexandre Bayen, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: The problem of road traffic, and its effects on pollution, time-consumption and their social and economical consequences, require an accurate policy and planning of road networks. The recent …

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Cordelia Schmid : Inria – French Académie des sciences Grand Prize

Cordelia Schmid, recognized as one of the worlds’ leading specialists in computer aided vision, heads up the Thoth project team at Inria’s Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research centre. Her research is dedicated to artificial vision, and more particularly the automatic interpretation of digital images and videos. She has made fundamental contributions in the field of representation of …

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Paola Goatin awarded “Femme en Or 2016” in the Smart City category

The 24th edition of the “Femme en Or” award was dedicated to Innovation, with two new categories this year: “Femme de Goût ” (Woman of Taste) promoting the “French art of life” and “Femme de la Smart City” (Smart City Woman) for those who introduce digital science in our cities. The “Femme de la Smart City” …

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Nina Miolane Awardee of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science

Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc laureate Nina Miolane  is one of the thirty promising young researchers recognised by UNESCO and the L’Oréal Foundation in 2016. She has been awarded a “Women in Science” Fellowship for her virtual patient research in the category “Exploring the brain, a new world to conquer”.   The thirty laureates were chosen this year from …

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Software Heritage: Collect, organise, preserve and share the Software Heritage of mankind

Software Heritage: Universal software archive On June 30th 2016, Inria announced the launching of “Software Heritage”, an ambitious initiative to collect, organise, preserve, and make easily accessible the source code of all software that is publicly available. By building a universal and sustainable software archive, the goal of Software heritage is to create an essential infrastructure …

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