#IRITsengage: discover the AdaTech exhibition and a video portrait on March 8!

March 8: International Women’s Rights Day, IRIT

On the occasion of March 8, the International Women’s Rights Day, IRIT is mobilizing. The laboratory’s equality mission has set up an exhibition highlighting the place of women in the field of computer science, created by AdaTech. The exhibition is displayed on the Paul Sabatier University website. In addition to this action, a video portrait was produced using the Polymny tool, with the aim of highlighting the career path of a woman scientist in the laboratory.

AdaTech’s Women in Computing exhibition

The Equality-Parity Mission has set up a travelling exhibition for March 8, starting in the entrance hall of the Maison de la Réussite en Licence, on the site of Paul Sabatier University (UT3). The exhibition was created and made available by AdaTech. It will also be installed at the ENSEEIHT, the University Toulouse Capitole, the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès and the IUT of Castres. This exhibition looks back at key moments in the history of computing, which are generally little known to the general public. For example, did you know that the first line of code was written by a woman? And that a woman is at the origin of a huge success of video games in the United States?

A video focus on a scientific career

The mission wanted to produce a series of video portraits. The aim is to highlight the research work carried out by women scientists in the laboratory. The first of this series focuses on the work of Régine André-Obrecht, professor emeritus at the University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier. Her research work focuses on the analysis and statistical modeling of speech signals, with the aim of identification (speech, speaker or language) and structuring (indexing of audiovisual documents). The shooting of these videos is done with the Polymny tool. The work carried out at IRIT has made it possible to propose this free software for the production of educational videos. We hope that these portraits will help to make visible the researchers, teacher-researchers and PhD students who are advancing research in computer science!