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A research institute at the heart of the Information Society Antoine Petit Director of INRIA Rocquencourt Research Unit. September 2006. French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. Devoted to Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies

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September 2006

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  1. A research institute at the heart of the Information Society Antoine PetitDirector of INRIA Rocquencourt Research Unit September 2006

  2. French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control • Devoted to Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies • A public scientific and technological institute under • the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and • the Ministry of Industry • INRIA’s slogan: • To combine scientific excellence and • technological transfer

  3. A national researchinstitute Six researchunits FUTURS Lille Metz Paris Lannion INRIA Rocquencourt LORIA Nancy Strasbourg Strasbourg IRISA Rennes FUTURS Orsay Saclay Cachan Besançon Nantes Lyon INRIA Rhône-Alpes Grenoble Headquarters FUTURS Bordeaux Research unit External research team Marseille Montpellier INRIA Sophia Antipolis

  4. Key figures (1/2) • A workforce of 3,600 persons including 1,800 paid by INRIA • 2,800 scientists among which 1,000 doctoral candidates 450 post-docs and expert engineers • 560 technicalandadministrativesupportstaff • 250 interns • An annual budget of 160 M€ (tax not incl.) • Including 20% from contracts, sofware licenses,…

  5. Key figures (2/2) • Scientific renown • 3,000 scientific publications • International visibility • 24 international conferences in 2005 • Technology transfer • Some 80 companies, 40 of which are still active • 4 companies founded in 2005 • 730 ongoing contracts, 230 active patents • 80 freely available software packages and software marketing licenses

  6. INRIARocquencourtFirst INRIA research center • 550 persons • 360 scientists among them 150 PhD students, 80 post-docs and expert engineers • 130 technicalandadministrativesupportstaff • 60interns • 38projectteams • Technologytransfert • 200 industrial contracts • 47 distributed softwares • 25 technology companies

  7. INRIASeven priority challenges • To design and master the future network infrastructures and communication services platforms • To develop multimedia data and information processing • To guarantee the reliability and security of software-intensive systems • To couple models and data to simulate and control complex systems • To combine simulation, visualization and interaction • To model living structures and mechanisms • To fully integrate ICST into medical technology

  8. Organization into project-teams • A scientific leader • Between 10 and 25 scientists • A strong thematic unity • Medium term work program and objectives • Scientific and financial autonomy • Links and collaborations with industrial and academic partners in France and worldwide • A rigorous evaluation of the results and a limited duration

  9. Around 150 project-teams divided into 5 themes (1/2) • Communicating systems • Distributed systems and software architecture • Networks and telecoms • Embedded systems and mobility • Architecture and compiling • Cognitive systems • Statistical modeling and machine learning • Perception, indexing and communication for images and video • Multimedia data: interpretation and man-machine interaction • Image synthesis and virtual reality

  10. Around 150 project-teams divided into 5 themes (2/2) • Symbolic systems • Reliability and safety of software • Algebraic and geometric structures, algorithms • Management and processing of language and data • Numerical systems • Control and complex systems • Grids and high-performance computing • Optimisation and inverse problems for stochastic or large-scale systems • Modeling, simulation and numerical analysis • Biological systems • Modeling and simulation in biology and medicine

  11. International relations (1/2) • INRIA is a major player in the construction and development of European research • Participation in more than 40 European projects (6th Framework Program) • Co- founder and driving force within ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) • ERCIM Post Doc Fellowship Program • Development of partnerships with European industry • AIR&D Joint virtual laboratory on ambient intelligence (INRIA, Philips, Thomson) • Scilab, Objectweb Consortia • Conferences and government-sponsored events • CARI African Colloquium on Research in Computer Science • Asia ICST Regional Program - in South-East Asia - with CNRS • Tunisia ICSTRegional Program - with the French Embassy in Tunis

  12. International relations (2/2) • Associated Research Teams • Around 40 all over the world • DIGIPLANTE : collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and INRIA, CIRAD, CNRS, BRGM, INRA • Joint laboratories • LIAMA: The joint Sino-French Laboratory in Informatics, Automation and Applied Mathematics • LAFMI: The Franco-Mexican laboratory in computer science • France-Hong Kong center for Financial and Insurance Engineering

  13. Consortium Scilab(created in June 2003) • Scilab: • An open source scientific software package for numerical computations (linear algebra, control, signal processing, simulation, etc.) • An alternative to Matlab • An INRIA team is fully involved in the software development and is funded by INRIA and the membership fees. • Consortium board members are decision makers • 17 industrial members • Also a way to collaborate with China

  14. A strong wish, and a priority, of INRIA INRIA’s CEO, Michel Cosnard • To strenghten its scientific relations with China by • Developing new projects within LIAMA • Increasing the use of Scilab • Welcoming more chinese colleagues (professors, post-docs, PhD students, …) in our research units • …

  15. Technology transfer, an economic ambition • Research with an eye on business • An essential element of the Institute’s culture • Objectives • Lower the transfer time between an idea and its marketing • Optimizing the economic impact on the short, medium and long terms • Creating standards to achieve technological breakthroughs • This transfer policy is asserted in INRIA’s strategic plan: “Building strong partnerships with major French and foreign companies that are leaders on their market”

  16. The Research Units Rocquencourt Loria Rhône-Alpes Irisa Futurs Sophia Antipolis

  17. INRIA today • Scientific renown • 3,000 scientific publications • Technology transfer • Some 80 companies, 40 of which are still active • 4 companies founded in 2005 • 730 ongoing contracts, 230 active patents • 80 freely available software packages and software marketing licenses • International visibility • 24 international conferences in 2005 • Training through research • Over 1,000 doctoral candidates, 14,300 teaching hours

  18. Collaborations between China and INRIA • One Joint Research Laboratory LIAMA : the Sino-French joint laboratory in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics • One Associated Research Team DIGIPLANTE : collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and INRIA, CIRAD, CNRS, BRGM, INRA

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