Prsentation de l'INRIA

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Welcome !
January 2007
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Agenda

• Presentation of INRIA
• Antoine Petit, director of the research unit of
  Rocquencourt
• Presentation of INRIA-Transfert
• Laurent Kott, CEO
• Presentation of the  pôle de compétitivité 
  System_at_tic Paris Région
• Maurice Klein, CEO
• Presentation of the cybercars' concept
• Rodrigo Benenson, Laurent Bouraoui, IMARA team

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A research institute at the heart of the
Information Society Antoine PetitDirector of
INRIA Rocquencourt Research Unit
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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

INRIAs slogan To combine scientific excellence
and technological transfer
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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
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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 technical and administrative support staff
• 250 interns

• An annual budget of 160 M (tax not incl.)
• Including 20 from contracts, sofware licenses,

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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
• 230 active patents
• 730 ongoing contracts
• 80 freely available software packages and
  software marketing licenses

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The Most-Cited Institutions in Computer
Science1995-2005
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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

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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
• Creating standards to achieve technological
  breakthroughs

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Around 150 project-teams divided into 5 themes

• Communicating systems

• Cognitive systems

• Numerical systems

• Biological systems

• Symbolic systems

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International relations (1/2)

• INRIA is a major player in the construction and
  development of European research
• Participation in more than 110 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
• AIRD Joint virtual laboratory on ambient
  intelligence (INRIA, Philips, Thomson)
• Scilab, Objectweb Consortia

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International relations (2/2)

• Associated Research Teams
• Around 50 all over the world
• Joint laboratories
• LIAMA The joint Sino-French Laboratory in
  Informatics, Automation and Applied Mathematics
• Collaboration between the Chinese Academy of
  Sciences and INRIA, CIRAD, CNRS, and INRA
• LAFMI The Franco-Mexican laboratory in computer
  science
• France-Hong Kong center for Financial and
  Insurance Engineering
• Institut franco-russe Liapunov
• INRIA - Hong Kong University Joint Research
  Centre

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