, Paris, France
Organized by the Offices for Science and Technology of the Embassies of France in the United States and Canada, the NETVA conference is a free one-day conference designed to provide you with the (...)
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NETVA Conference 2017 : A Quick-Start Training to Understand North-American Tech Markets -
Inria @ SiliconValley : International Conference on Blockchain Technology for Cybersecurity & Social Impact , Berkeley
The annual Inria @ SiliconValley conference will be hosted by CITRIS, the Banatao Institute and Inria in Berkeley, California. The themes of this edition will focus on blockchain technologies for (...) -
Café des Sciences in La Jolla: Ben Lecomte, the Longest Swim In 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. He is now ready for his next challenge : swimming across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco, followed by (...) -
Tattooed project: The first automated tattoo machine! What does it mean to invent a new tool today? , San Francisco, CA
Pierre-Emmanuel Meunier and Johan da Silveira, two designers and inventor artists currently working at Autodesk, will present their project baptized : tattoué , the first automated tattoo machine, (...) -
Conference "Manufacturing Transparency" at UC Berkeley , Berkeley, CA
"Manufacturing Transparency" (Oct. 28th at UC Berkeley) aims at exploring the concept of transparency, from various angles, sociological, artistic, philosophical, scientific. Speakers from (...)
Science & Technology Watch
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Les machines progressent dans leur apprentissage du langage naturel Services clients, assistants virtuels, plateformes d’apprentissage ou encore services automatiques de messagerie sont quelques-unes des applications courantes des automates conversationnels. Ces programmes mettent en lumière la difficulté que représente la compréhension du langage par un automate programmé.
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Bio-mimétisme et bio-bots prennent le relais dans la course aux micro-drones Coût de fabrication, consommation énergétique, encombrement ou discrétion font partie des motivations dans la course à la miniaturisation. Des avancées récentes permettent même de modifier le génome de véritables insectes volants afin d’autoriser leur prise de contrôle en vol par un opérateur humain.
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Waze propose un nouveau service de covoiturage La compagnie Waze, à l’origine de l’application de cartographie collaborative et communautaire éponyme, a étendu son activité vers un nouveau service de covoiturage.
La compagnie Waze, à l’origine de l’application de cartographie collaborative et communautaire éponyme, a étendu son activité vers un (…) -
Des robots livreurs sur les trottoirs à San Francisco : la municipalité va-t-elle bannir les robots de ses trottoirs ? Au mois de mars, la société Yelp/eat24 procédait à un essai de robot livreur de plats à emporter dans les rues du quartier Mission à San Francisco. Alors que le cadre légal ne prévoyait pas cette situation inédite, la municipalité de San Francisco avait réagi en demandant que de nouvelles lois et régulations soient mises en place pour préserver le caractère piétonnier des trottoirs.
News
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NETVA 2017: 20 High-Tech French Startups heading to North America! Discover the laureates of the 8th edition of NETVA! The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and its partners are proud (...)The transatlantic collaborations of the University of Bordeaux with the USA The University of Bordeaux has identified partners throughout the world with whom we structure and expand our partnership, (...)Jennifer Doudna, co-discoverer of CRISPR/Cas9, winner of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO prize On February 17th, the Office for Science and Technology met with Jennifer Doudna, professor at UC Berkeley and co-discoverer (...)
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Mars exploration: CNES tasks 500 000th firing of Curiosity’s laser on Mars Wednesday 20 September, CNES's experts fired the laser for the 500 000th time. This symbolic achievement is the latest (...)Creation of a New French-American Excellence Fund with UT Austin The University of Texas at Austin and the Embassy of France in the United States signed an agreement in July 2017 to create (...)Cassini’s ‘Grand Finale’ at Saturn Mission Ends After Pushing the Boundaries of Exploration Twenty years after departing from Earth and 13 years after it slipped into orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has (...)
Calls for Proposals
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University of Lille : Call for a three-year PhD position in solid-state NMR spectroscopy of advanced materials University of Lille : Call for a three-year PhD position in solid-state NMR spectroscopy of advanced materials -
Grenoble Doctoral Programs for Quantum Engineering - 20 PhD Positions The Quantum Engineering Grenoble program from Université Grenoble-Alpes and the Grenoble Quantum Engineering European COFUND program will offer 20 PhD positions over 3 calls (autumn 2017, spring (...) -
Paris-Saclay University: Call for a post-doctoral postion in Laser Spectroscopy A post-doctoral position in the field of complex molecules is open in the “BioMolecular Group” at Paris-Saclay University (Dr. Michel Mons and Dr. Eric Gloaguen), France. Applications must be sent (...) -
CentraleSupélec Accelerated Engineering Degree Program - Deadline Extended to Oct 27 The CentraleSupélec Accelerated Engineering Degree Program trains you to become an elite Grande Ecole Engineer in only two years! This program can be taught either fully in English during the 2 (...) -
2017 Edition of the program ’Espoirs de la Recherche’ by the French Foundation of Medical Research (FRM) The French Foundation of Medical Research is launching its 2017 edition call for projects aimed at French or foreign researchers of higher level, eager to join a French research structure to set (...)
