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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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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.
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Wibotic : vers la fin de la maintenance quotidienne des drones ? Issue de l’Université de Washington à Seattle, Wibotic, une startup spécialisée dans les technologies de chargement sans fil propose des solutions pour réduire la nécessité d’intervention humaine pour la charge des batteries des drones et robots.
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Android Things : la stratégie de Google pour l’internet des objets passe par Android Les géants de la Silicon Valley se sont engagés dans la course au développement de l’internet des objets, discipline entre systèmes distribués et intelligence ambiante. A l’approche de sa conférence Google I/O 2017, qui se tiendra du 17 au 19 mai à Mountain View, la firme californienne lève le voile sur un nouveau système d’exploitation pour l’internet des objets.
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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Franco-American Lectureship Prize : A joint endeavour between ACS and the French Chemical Society (SCF) In 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS) and the French Chemical Society (SCF) signed a three-year alliance agreement. As (...)CNES and NASA celebrate 25th anniversary of launch of TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimetry mission by Ariane Thursday 10 August, CNES was with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena to mark the 25th anniversary of the (...)Reception in Honor of French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet Held in Houston The Consul General of France in Houston and the Office for Science & Technology organized a cocktail reception on July 11 (...)
Calls for Proposals
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Call for Head of the European and International Relations Office (BREI) of the Aix-en-Provence Arts and Métiers Campus Call for Head of the European and International Relations Office (BREI) of the Aix-en-Provence Arts and Métiers Campus. The BREI (Office of European and International Relations) of Aix-en-Provence (...) -
Fulbright Research Grants: Extension of the deadline for two grants to France Fulbright is extending the deadline to September 12th, 2017 for two of its grants: the Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award and the Hauts-de-France region (...) -
CentraleSupélec Accelerated Engineering Degree Program 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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...)
