Researcher portraits, Research
… published this portrait of Gilles Dowek, who passed away on Monday, 21 July 2025. This portrait will continue to pay tribute to the scientist he was. Gilles Dowek was a director of research at Inria, a … proof systems and the lack of equivalence between them, he set out to develop universal logical frameworks. "I felt …
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… of the Earth's formation from an early age. As a child, she was fascinated by a lecture given by Maurice and Katia … "My first contact with the theory of plate tectonics, which was still very new at the time,"she recalls. Three years … of NASA's VERITAS mission, an orbiter scheduled to set off to map Venus in 2031. " My role is to model the …
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… articles on aerospace, which he learnt by heart. Later, he was inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the … The PhD candidate replaced a complex physical model with a set of artificial neural networks that the LMD's Atmospheric … about automatic learning and artificial intelligence. So, I was working on what we now call machine learning," recalls …
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… international regulation of artificial intelligence. She was recently named Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des … intellectual property and AI In 2007, Alexandra Bensamoun was recruited as a lecturer at Université Paris-Sud and … where she created a work-study programme on digital law. "I set up a research orientation dedicated to digital …
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International-Europe
… A strategic Franco-British partnership to push forward artificial intelligence for science, the economy and … society A strategic Franco-British partnership to push forward artificial intelligence for science, the economy and … a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will set out the governance structure, deadlines and resources …
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… her interest in mathematics. From secondary school onwards, she took part in many national competitions and discovered the joy of problem-solving. However, it wasn't until her undergraduate studies at the University of … She decided to cross the Atlantic to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she defended her …
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… discipline, she is convinced that major discoveries are always the result of collective work. Nothing predestined … for understanding the world," says the researcher. She was fascinated by physics' ability to describe the invisible … the two, in close proximity to the source, there is a set of instruments called a "near detector": this is where …
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… in Spain, Ana María Gómez decided as a teenager that she wanted to contribute to improving human health through … of one of her aunts from incurable cardiac hypertrophy, she set her sights on discovering new drugs to treat … pharmacy at the Complutense University of Madrid, but it was not until her fifth year of university that she …
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Innovation
… disease research. With the help of AI, this field is set to accelerate. It is for these reasons that this … candidate, the start-up went through four stages. The first was to identify the right molecules, which took two years. … they had to identify the correct receptor and, once this was done, the precise target or the right site to target on …
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… More Reliable and More Agile Drones Research (This article was originally published in L'Édition No.17 ) When used … has grown, whether it is to assist people, deliver parcels, watch over fields, or even inspect facilities. This … to develop an embedded architecture solution and a core set of reusable and enabling tools and technologies to be …
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… questions of provenance and restitution This article was originally published in L'Édition n°26 . Whether it's artworks or cultural goods looted during wars or colonisation, questions of provenance and potential … scope to be taken into account for this law. Do we need to set limits in terms of geography (Africa) or time (the …
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… As a student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was more attracted, he freely admits, by the capital's jazz … of Ian Campbell. “Previously, I thought that science was a set of laws firmly established by eminent researchers … As a student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was more attracted, he freely admits, by the capital's jazz …
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