Congratulations to Erwan Le Merrer (WIDE) and Gilles Trédan (LAAS), whose paper “Remote explainability faces the bouncer problem” has recently been published by Nature! The paper considers the concept of explainability of machine learning decisions. The concept is simple: like humans, algorithms should explain the rationale behind their decisions so…
Our paper “Smaller, Faster & Lighter KNN Graph Constructions” has been accepted to WWW2020 (The Web Conf), that will be held in Taipei on April 21-24 (physically and on-line). Congratulation to the main author, Olivier Ruas, now a post-doctoral researcher at Peking University!
Florestan De Moor received this year’s “Prix National Jeunes André Blanc-Lapierre 2019” and the “Prix Groupe Ouest 2019” from the SEE society (Société de l’électricité, de l’électronique et des technologies de l’information et de la communication), for his Master thesis entitled “A Biclustering Approach to Recommender Systems” performed within WIDE, and…
You are cordially invited to attend the PhD defense of Adrien Luxey that will be held November 29 at 9.30 am, Room Guernesey (ISTIC) and for a drink in Salle du Club des Professeurs (Building 1). Jury members : Romain Rouvoy, Professeur des Universités, Université de Lille Vivien Quéma, Professeur…
We will be receiving Hayk Saribekyan from the University of Cambridge who will give a talk “How to spread a rumour: call your neighbours or take a walk?” on Tuesday, November the 12th. Abstract: We study the problem of randomized information dissemination in networks. We compare the now standard push-pull…
The full program of the 9th edition of WOS, the InterDigital/Inria Workshop on systems, is available online. WOS’9 will take place on December 5th (full day) at InterDigital (Cesson-Sévigné, close to Rennes). Attendance is free, but registration is compulsory for logistics purposes (see https://team.inria.fr/wide/wos/ to register). Afficher une carte plus…
During the SRDS 2019 conference which took place in Lyon, France, from October 1st to 4th, Anne-Marie Kermarrec gave a keynote about Recommending Fast Data. Summary Computing systems that make human sense of big data, usually called personalization systems or recommenders, and popularized by Amazon and Netflix, essentially help Internet…
During the SRDS 2019 conference which took place in Lyon, France, from October 1st to 4th, Michel Raynal received an Outstanding Career Award for his contributions to distributed systems and algorithms.
Les technologies de l’information et de la communication transforment la société. Les algorithmes sont au coeur de toutes les attentions: objets industriels fondamentaux pour les entreprises, ils sont souvent perçus comme des “boites-noires” par les utilisateurs confrontés à leurs décisions. Ce constat ne va qu’en s’amplifiant avec le déploiement continu…
We will be receiving Hélène Coullon from the STACK team in Nantes who will give a talk “Distributed Software Management: Efficiency, Software engineering and Verification” on Friday, August the 30th. Abstract: With the emergence of large-scale virtualized distributed infrastructures, such as Cloud, Fog and Edge computing, for instance, and the…
