It's about one year; I started to feed my blog again; I'm rather busy with teaching, and I leave for Brazil (Fortaleza and Manaus) where I'll give two seminars ...
**Seminar on Grid and service oriented computing* *7th december at 15h00, Salle des séminaires LIRMM* * The LIRMM is honored by the visit of Bertrand David (LIESP), Domenico Laforenza (CNR, Italy), Mr Thierry Priol (IRISA) and Jean-Pierre Prost (IBM) as members of Pascal Dugenie’s thesis committee. Our prestigious guests have kindly accepted to give a talk on their current research activities and projects related to: Grid services and interaction within augmented reality.
More details on: http://www.lirmm.fr/~gouaich/events/seminars/ <http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Egouaich/events/seminars/> Talks : - *IMERA (Interaction mobile dans l'environnement Réel Augmenté)* By Bertrand David, LIESP - *The European Project "XtreemOS": How to build and promote a Linux-based Operating System to Support Virtual Organizations for Next Generation Grids.* By Domenico Laforenza, CNR - *CoreGRID: 3 years of experience integrating Grid Research in Europe* By Thierry Priol, IRISA. - *Le projet Green Data Center.* By Jean-Pierre Prost, IBM Kind regards, Abdelkader Gouaich
We have been invited to give a Conference at the meeting between LIP6 (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6: http://www.lip6.fr/fr/index.html) and NII (National Institute of Informatics, Honiden Lab, Tokyo http://honiden-lab.ex.nii.ac.jp/english/) on Monday, Nov. 19th.
Details are in the web page: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/%7Echarif/NII-LIP6-Workshop2007
Unfortunately, due to strikes in the train connections, Abdel and myself decided NOT to go ... even if we were at 6h in the morning ready to leave at the Montpellier station.
Pity. However, we produced some slides (here) .
Later in the day, I heard from François Perrot that he gave an invited talk on our slot.
Great news !! Apparently, then, the day was successful.
At the moment, no one of the submitted projects has been approved. We wait for Beehive, that has been re-submitted in the area of Embedded Systems in October 2007.
We have been deceived by the result of the evaluation, phase 2, for Teaming, that passed phase 1 with a very promising evaluation. We will certainly re-submit it in the future, as the team of international partners has been very satisfied of the final technical annex proposed by our main contractor.
Pity. Competition is harder and harder. We keep hoping.
I have been invited to deliver a Course in Interactive Services at the Master GLAD (Software Engineering and Decision Aids) of the Engineering School ENSI, Tunis (http://www.ensi.rnu.tn/).
The Course will be held in English on January 15-22, 2008.
Thanks to Khaled Ghedira, Director, and Moncef Tagina and Wided Lejouad Chaari, Professors at the School.
Mr. Orlando Pandolfi, President of the Marenostrum Foundation, has informed me that in June he will go to the island, accompanied by Nereo Rotelli to visit the Major: Pedro Edmunds Paoa.
If this mission will be successful, it becomes possible that our "Ubiquitous University" project (proposed since 2004 with the late Francesco Di Castri to the EU) will get some support for a PhD student dedicated to study the technical feasibility.
To know more on Ubiquitous University : see projects.
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