Edito

It has already been a month since the 2015 edition of the annual Inria@SiliconValley workshop was held. Many thanks to the organization team, speakers and attendees who contributed to make it a successfull event. Feel free to visit the pages of the event on the Inria@SiliconValley web site to know more. And, we hope the workshop nurtured plenty of ideas for new collaborations !!

We recall the undertaking of those collaborations may in particular be supported by the dedicated programs of the Inria international affairs department among which:

- The Inria International chairs - see  news
- The Associate Team program - call to be launched early July

And, with this June edition, we are happy to share information about the following ongoing research collaborations:

- The BIGDATANET Associate Team between the ZENITH Inria team and UC Santa Barbara;

- The post-doctoral research of Gylfi Gudmundsson that takes part in the context of a collaboration between the LINKMEDIA Inria team and the AMPLab of UC Berkeley;

- The Inria International chair holder John Canny with the WILLOW Inria team.

Last but not least, we would like to highlight the publication of the 2011-14 activity report of Inria@SiliconValley that surveys the various activities of the program since its creation in 2011, including the fruitfull collaborations that have been launched so far.

Valérie Issarny, Scientific coordinator

On behalf of the Inria@SiliconValley team

NEWS

Focus on a joint research project: BIGDATANET

Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc: Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson presents his work

Inria@SiliconValley 2011-2014 Activity Report

Inria International Chairs: Call for applications

AGENDA

Save the date: Stamlins 2015

ICML Workshop on Statistics, Machine Learning and Neuroscience (July 10th, 2015)

Stamlins 2015 will take place in Lille (France) en July 10th, 2015. It is co-organized by Inria-CEA (Bertrand Thirion, Inria@SiliconValley joint team MetaMRI), Technical University of Denmark(Lars Kai Hansen) and Stanford University (Sanmi Koyejo) See workshop website:

https://sites.google.com/site/stamlins2015/home

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INTERVIEW

Inria International Chair: Interview with John Canny (EECS, U.C. Berkeley)

John Canny John Canny received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics from Adelaide University in South Australia, 1979, a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, Adelaide University, 1980, an M.S. and a Ph.D. from M.I.T, 1983 and 1987, respectively. He joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty of EECS in 1987. John Canny has been awarded an international chair by the Inria Chairs Committee for the period 2013-2017 within the WILLOW research team in Paris-Rocquencourt on the topic "Active Robotic Agents for Preschool Learning"...