Philippe Lenca, a specialist in data mining works in the LUSSI dept.

The purpose of this Task Force is to develop collaborations, promote publications, develop training for young researchers / students and to lead the community with specific sessions in scientific meetings,  and most especially, at IEEE conferences.

See the publications of Philippe Lenca.
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Extract (in french) from the Capital progarmme « Student rates: how to get future clients? » October 9, 2011 broadcast on M6.

hWhat are the strategies adopted by different banks to glean new customers? Why do they maintain a special relationship with the Student Council, what are the sales offers? …

Abstract : Heterogeneous computers—platforms that make use of multiple specialized devices to achieve high throughput or low energy consumption—are difficult to program. Hardware vendors usually provide compilers from a C dialect to their machines, but complete application rewriting is frequently required to take advantage of them. In this thesis, we propose a new approach to building bridges between regular applications written in C and these dialects. From an analysis of the hardware constraints, we propose original code transformations that can meet those constraints, and we combine them using a completely programmable pass manager that can handle the complex compilation flows required by the code generation process for multiple targets. It makes it possible to build a collection of compiler based on the same infrastructure while targeting different architectures. All the code transformations are done at the source level using the PIPS source-to-source compiler framework. New transformations are detailed using denotational semantics on a simplified language and have been combined to build four different compilers : an OpenMP directive generator, a retargetable multimedia instruction generator for SSE, AVX and Neon, an assembly code generator for an FPGA-based image processor and a CUDA generator.

Mots-clés : compilation, calcul hétérogène.

Membres du jury : Albert Cohen, directeur de recherche, INRIA, Paris – Sanjayu Rajopadhye, professeur, Colorado State Univertisy, USA – Eugène Ressler, professeur, United States Military Academy, USA – Patrice Quinton, professeur, ENS Cachan, Bruz – Fabrice Lemonier, responsable de projet, Thales Research & Technology, Palaiseau – Bernard Pottier, professeur, Université de Bretagne Occidentale – Ronan Keryell, maître de conférences, Télécom Bretagne – François Irigoin, professeur, Mines ParisTech.

These results were released September 22  2011 and  involved a panel of 62 schools. They are based on the number of students subscribing to schools’ Twitter accounts. An interview with Marie-Catherine Mouchot, head of Communication  completes the BNEI article.

This project was conducted with support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication through the Deps (Research Department, Planning and Statistics) and Gis “Culture-media & digital technology.”

Two versions, two readerships

The factors governing readership of the regional daily press differ depending on whether the reader uses print or online versions. Readers of the paper edition are more attached to their locality and loyalty to this format is more marked in small towns. It mostly concerns people aged 50 and older and non-graduates. While 65% of Internet users over 65  read the regional daily press regularly,  only 12% view it online. Reading online is not  linked to territorial attachment but rather to the daily use of the Internet. It is stronger among the younger generations, although not systematically: 32% of Internet users aged 18-24 read the paper version and only 18% of them follow it online. Their main source of information being the national news sites: 49% of them go on national news sites at least once a week.

The importance of gossip

“- Have you heard about the new neighborhood association?”- “It’s in the paper!”.
The results of the study show that to talk about local news increases the likelihood of reading articles online and those (regional newspaper) readers are more likely to share articles through social networks than readers of the national press (27% compared with 22%). Note that 51% of them are sensitive to the development of their region on the web. 79% of Internet users who read their local newspaper online, want mostly local information. However, hyper local information (city, district,), are found primarily on dedicated sites (blogs associations, neighborhoods …).
One of the challenges of the regional daily press online could be to reclaim every way of describing or showing or commenting on any area, however small. Future developments should end up by offering a full array of local news enhanced with the  new tools and uses of digital technology.

They were at Lake Vezins (department of La Manche) where multiple activities were organized: laser game, canoe relays, football tournaments, beach volleyball, petanque …  And the fun continued into the evening with a DJ who came especially for the occasion. The students’ association hopes that foreign students will participate in even greater numbers next year.
What is the “integration period” at the school? It’s a period lasting about two weeks during which parties and various activities are organized to welcome the new intake of students. The Wei weekend marks the end of the integration period and is a time of fun and friendliness for all the students on campus.

Edgard Haddad wrote his thesis with a CIFRE (French system: Industrial Agreements for Training through Research) industrial partnership in Orange laboratories in Belfort.

This distinction, awarded to100 young researchers across the world, came with an invitation to the Ursi congress to be held in Istanbul in August. Edgard Haddad attended the congress where he presented his work on the development of a propagation model for advanced 3D ray tracing (including acceleration technique, diffusion phenomena, and polarization of sources …). This tool simulates spatial and temporal characteristics of the channel and thus predicts the capacity of any type of single or multi-antenna system. He has already published five scientific papers. Edgard Haddad will defend his thesis November 29, 2011.

Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière

Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière.

This is Telecom Bretagne’s first female sponsor. Some may think, rightly, that this was a long wait, for a school founded nearly 35 years ago. One can only say that despite the long wait it has been a real success… Thanks to her exceptional charisma and natural empathy with young people, Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière communicated well with the students. She spoke truthfully and frankly about her career and the professional and personal challenges she has overcome during her time with the France Telecom Group. The students clearly found her speech inspirational.
Learn more about Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière
Following her scientific training at Ecole normale supérieure, Corps des Télécoms, Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière joined France Telecom in 1996.
After her first appointment in an operational position as head of France Telecom outlets on the Left Bank of Paris, in 1999 Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière was made responsible for setting up the distribution channel for France Telecom products and services and customer relations on the web.
This investment in the world of the Internet led her in 2001 to manage Strategy and later, low bandwidth products, services and VoIP for Wanadoo.
In 2004, Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière was appointed Limousin – Poitou – Charentes Regional Director for France Telecom.
She then returned to Paris where she took charge of Telecom Group Transformation and in 2007 she was appointed chief Marketing Executive in charge of Internet, voice and TV offers in France for the France Telecom Group.
Since 1 May 2010, Mari-Noelle Jégo-Laveissière is Director of Research & Development for the Group.

Annie Blandin, recipient of the Jean Monnet Chair 2011.

Engineers trained in issues of European law within the context of the information society

Annie Blandin  was honoured for her work in the field of European law. The chair, which was awarded by the European Commission, is entitled “European Union and Information Society”. It is in addition to six chairs the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence in Rennes recently renewed by the Commission. At the formal start of the new year in November Annie Blandin will give an inaugural lecture where she will present her project. In 2011, 30 Jean Monnet Chairs were awarded by the European Commission on a global scale.

As part of this work project, Annie Blandin aims to “strengthen the Telecom Bretagne syllabus concerning  European law and the information society to enrich the range of skills enabling engineers to evolve in an international and multicultural context. Knowledge sharing, notably with business, will make it possible to compare different points of view on the specificity of the European approach to regulation of digital activities. ”

In this context, there will be some modifications made to the current law programmes at Telecom Bretagne to give them synergy and increase impact and quality. In addition to coordinating with six Jean Monnet Chairs at the University of Rennes 1 and Rennes 2, Annie Blandin will build on the experience of language teachers from Telecom Bretagne in the teaching of intercultural studies. A specific course for foreign engineering students, is being prepared within the framework of the international masters programmes at the School,. It will involve, at first, students following the  mastère “Networks and information systems for companies’ made available by Telecom-Bretagne to the Instituto Technologico Autonomo in Mexico.

Instruction provided will combine fundamental knowledge on the functioning of the Union, in a comparative perspective (with NAFTA), and specific knowledge on European regulation pertaining to information technology. This project is part of the activities carried out at the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence under the UNESCO Chair on Regional Integration and the CNRS International research group on the same topic.

Research focuses on Information Society law in a multidisciplinary perspective

The link with research is a guarantee of the quality of teaching. The research themes will go from studying the legal framework for digital activities (copyright, data protection, regulation of the telecommunications market) to examining the conditions in which the technique can be used for legal purposes.
The arrival of a European lecturer specialized in Internet law who will spend one month at the school should add further educational food for thought. The goal ultimately is to create a cluster or network of research lecturers in Europe working around the theme of European law and the information society. This pole represents an added incentive factor for students interested in doing a PhD in the field.

Two events will be organized to take stock of this research. In 2012, a multidisciplinary conference (law, economics, and engineering) will be held in the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence on the subject of the protection and enhancement of digital content in Europe. It will be followed in 2014, by a seminar open to the public focused on European activities and the link between innovation and law (privacy by design, for example).

The operating costs of the chair are partially covered by the endowment of € 45,000 awarded by the European Union.

The creation of this new chair is associated with the forthcoming inclusion of h Telecom Bretagne in the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence in Rennes.

Learn more about the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence in Rennes:
The Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence in Rennes is a platform of scientific expertise on European issues, recognised by the European Commission. Coordinated by Professor Catherine Flaesch-Mougin, it comprises seven Jean Monnet chairs, 74 lecturers and researchers from the University of Rennes 1, University Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne, ENS-Cachan-Antenne de Bretagne and Telecom Bretagne in the disciplines of law, economics, geography and history.
European renown: it trains students, conducts research and has a European Documentation Centre and a specialized library for European affairs. It aims to further the understanding of European integration. particularly through its series of lectures entitled the “Visit Europe”.

Learn more about Annie Blandin:
Professor at Telecom Bretagne, Annie Blandin is a member of the Jean Monnet Centre d’excellence in Rennes and the Centre de recherches européennes de l’Institut de l’Ouest: law and Europe (UMR CNRS 6262) where she is responsible for research on the European society of information. In addition to her teaching at Telecom Bretagne,she intervenes in various masters in Rennes (European Union law and the WTO, EU policies) and in Paris at the Law School of Sciences P. She regularly publishes  articles covering a range of themes related to the structuring of human activities and law in the information society. She supervises dissertations, theses and post-doctoral students on these topics. Her activities are related to the Maison des sciences de l’Homme in Brittany, via her participation in the GIS Marsouin, ( the humanities and the information society), and the Loustic observation platform form. She is a referent advisor for ICT law in Labex Comin Labs.
Her work atan engineering school has also involved her in collaborative research projects, particularly in the context of the”Media and Networks” competitiveness cluster.

Contact: Annie Blandin, Professor – annie.blandin @ telecom-bretagne.eu-02 29 00 70 18.