Look at the screen behind Chris (the big organizer of this trip to Grenoble): videocameras, 56 CPUs and a complex software allow this live representation of a reality. Impressive!

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ENSIMAG was pretty impressive: we met three researchers. One dealing with grid computing (much more on grid very soon) and distributed computer science, the second one talking about algorithmics, the third on virtual reality (a picture in the next post).

ENSIMAG is probably the best pure computer science educative institute in France. ENST (Telecom Paris) is definitely the best networks / telecommunications school (Telecom Brest is not so bad either), also excellent in software engineering; the best ‘generalist’ (a very elitist French concept) schools of engineering offering last year programs in IT may be Mines Paris and Ecole Centrale Paris (I’m currently a student of the latter).

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We enjoyed quite an exhaustive tour of France Telecom R&D Grenoble’s latest innovation demos. Pretty interesting stuff I will blog about soon (videoconferencing, RFID tags, remote medicine, e-voting, etc.).

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We went to visit the LETI, a research center in Grenoble. I tried to take a picture from the inside but I almost got kiled by the security guard. The LETI does great great things (for too cheap), working with big corporations as well as start-ups. Their core business is basically nanotech, information security, RFID, chips, optronics, etc. I’m not sure I’m allowed to display the content of the presentations we had: the people we talked to were all Defense Top Secret accredited, and we couldn’t visit more than the conference room because of the foreign students taking part of the course. A shame…Too bad.

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