For 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, and produced a video portrait that we let you discover!
The PhD student Firmin Kateu, from the ASR department – RMESS team, has been selected for the Doc d’Occitanie program operated by TTT. His thesis supervisors are Gentian Jakllari and Emmanuel Chaput. The subject of his thesis is: Smartphone-based application solutions around connected health.
Digital learning tools are more and more popular among learners and teachers, in the context of hybrid pedagogical programs. At IRIT, a research niche exists in this field and the researchers involved in this research theme are invested in two projects that we wish to highlight in this article.
ECTEL Conference | Esteban Villalobos, from the TALENT team – ICI department, received the Best Paper award for the paper entitled “Supporting Self-regulating Learning in BL: Exploring learners’ tactics and strategies” and co-authored with Mar Pérez-Sanagustin, Cédric Sanza, André Tricot and Julien Broisin.
The final workshop of the European EFFECTOR project will take place this Thursday 15 September 2022, at the Manufacture des Tabacs, on the site of the Toulouse 1 Capitole University. IRIT and the SGMer (Secrétariat Général de la Mer) are organising the event. The EFFECTOR project provides an interoperability framework and associated data fusion and analysis services for maritime surveillance and border security.
The Assises de la Recherche en Ingénierie will be held from 4 to 8 July 2022, on the theme of “Science in consciousness, ecological and societal issues”. Members of IRIT will be leading workshops on Green IT at this event.
The DAS e-Education of IRIT co-organise with the association La Mêlée the first EdTechs Occitanie meeting on June 16th at 6pm in person at La Cantine du Quai.
A seminar on high performance computing (HPC) is organized at ENSEEIHT on June 22, 2022. On this occasion, two internationally renowned scientists, Jack Dongarra and Satoshi Matsuoka, will lead conferences to put HPC in perspective in the future.
The DesCartes project is a large-scale collaboration in the field of hybrid Artificial Intelligence, starting at the end of 2021. Farah BENAMARA, Associate Professor at UT3 and co-leader of the MELODI team, from the Artificial Intelligence department of IRIT, is the scientific leader for UT3 of the Automatic Natural Language Processing (NLP) research domain in this project.
Two Toulouse projects are supported by the CNRS, through the RISE program. Interactive Relief Drawing (DERi), on which IRIT researchers are working, is one of them. It is an interactive and digital device that facilitates the daily life of people with visual impairments.
