What is infinity ? Throughout history, mathematicians have tried to give a precise meaning to this concept. Interview with mathematician Jean-Paul Delahaye, Professor Emeritus, University of Lille. "Pour la Science" dossier No 125

10 years ago, the Haute-de-France Region and the regional innovation agency HDFID created RERI with a major strategic objective: to boost regional participation in European R&D and innovation projects! This anniversary will be an opportunity to highlight regional success stories and to reflect with …

Compliance Robotics, a start-up resulting from the research work of the DEFROST team (CO2 Group in the CRIStAL laboratory), housed at Inria, has been awarded the i-Lab 2024 Grand Prize, a prestigious award given to just 10 innovative start-up projects in France. Compliance Robotics is one of the 2 …

From the "mutilated chessboard" to exotic assemblies of small squares, the question of which shapes are "dominable" is gradually being resolved, but not without difficulty. Jean-Paul Delahaye "Pour la science" article no. 564

From Mesopotamian clay tablets to blockchain technologies, mankind is looking for ways to store data securely in order to retain and share information. Computer memories and their technological evolutions attempt to meet this need through various compromises. Software precessing of data is also …

The Heritage Days will be held in Lezennes to discover the heritage of the underground quarries. It will be possible to visit a small area of the quarries during these days, which will take place on 21 and 22 September 2024. Visits must be booked in advance at the Town Hall by calling 03 20 91 59 …

To carry out certain operations, surgeons already have robotic tools at their disposal. But in the future, the implants themselves could be mobile, and controlled in such a way as to faciliate their insertion. The Robocop project, coordinated by Inria's Defrost project team, is a first step in the …

Recent research has taken up and refined the reasoning of the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom who, twenty years ago, thought it likely that our reality was in fact a computer simulation run by an advanced civilisation. Jean-Paul Delahaye POUR LA SCIENCE N° 563

Mathematics allows infinite calculations, and certain fields of physics also seem to need them. But what sense can we make of such operations? Jean-Paul Delahaye POUR LA SCIENCE N° 562

Progress on combinatorial problems linked to the SET card game has been made using methods derived from massive language models, at the heart of generative AI. Jean-Paul Delahaye "POUR LA SCIENCE N° 561" 19 June 2024