The GDR BIM proposes the first edition of the (JC)2BIM school, a generalist school in bioinformatics and biostatistics... Pre-registration closed.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains: successes and uncertainties Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, public and private blockchains, mining, smart-contracts, ICOs and more. Events are happening at breakneck speed on these interrelated subjects, but it is quite difficult to keep up with all the …

TFJM² 2018: the national winning team, coached by an Inria Lille PhD student, tackles the international stage. Dimitri Gallois is a doctoral student at the University of Lille (CRIStAL/Inria Links team).

Mohamed Daoudi, head of the 3D SAM team, has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions On Multimedia journal, effective May 22, 2018. IEEE Transactions On Multimedia is a journal of IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Signal …

On April 20, 2018, Hugo Sbai became the youngest doctor at the University of Lille. Hugo Sbai's entire career has been marked by an uncommon precociousness. He passed his baccalauréat at the age of twelve. He then entered the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), graduating with a …

Mentored by two Inria researchers, Michal Valko and Alessandro Lazarik, Daniele Calandriello is a young doctor in the Sequel team, shared by the Inria Lille Nord-Europe center and the Center for Research in Computer Science, Signal and Automation (CRIStAL).

The Music Informatics Days 2018, steered by the Association Francophone d'Informatique Musicale (AFIM) take place from May 16 to 18, 2018 in Amiens. They are organized by the emerging Algomus team (CRIStAL, UMR 9189 CNRS, University of Lille and MIS, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens). JIM …

Giuseppe Lipari became IEEE Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to real-time reservation planning". SEAS Thematic Group, SyCoMoRES team.

Géry Casiez has just been named a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France 2018

Benjamin Martin will present the wotk of Simbals, a Bordeaux-based start-up founded by LaBRI researchers, to identify audio content in a voriety of application contexts. He will talk about techniques developed to efficiently index commercial databases for audio identification, detailing the process …