Scientific Prizes and Awards prior to 2004
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November 2003 : Nomination to the Parliamentary Office for assessing scientific and technological choices
Daniel Kofman, professor at Télécom Paris has just been appointed a member of the Scientific Committee of the Parliamentary Office for assessing scientific and technological choices. The parliamentary office composed of around thirty deputies and senators bases its action on the advice of the Scientific Committee, which is made up of 24 members.
See composition of Scientific Committee
November 2003: A Grand Prix from the Académie des Sciences for Alain Glavieux and Claude Berrou
On 25 November 2003, the Académie des Sciences awarded the Grand Prix France Télécom to two researchers from ENST Bretagne: Alain Glavieux and Claude Berrou.
November 2003 : Monpetit Prize from the Academy of Sciences for Jean-François Cardoso
Jean-François Cardoso, researcher with the Signal and Image Processing Department at Télécom Paris, is the winner of the 2003 Academy of Sciences' Monpetit prize. Director of Research with CNRS, he is a pioneer of methods of statistical signal processing known as “separation of sources” or ''analysis of independent components”, the applications of which are diverse, in telecommunications, bio-engineering, or even cosmology.
November 2003: Prize for GET for the best technological innovation
On 18 November 2003, at the 'Cartes 2003' exhibition, the EAP smart card, developed by teams at Télécom Paris won the Sesame award for the best technological innovation.
Contact : Pascal Urien
October 2003 : ITEA prize for the 'Ambience' project of Télécom Paris
The 'Ambience' project, of which Télécom Paris is one of the holders, was presented with the ITEA* Achievement Award at the Symposium held in October 2003. The purpose of this project was to prepare future new services based on 'ambient intelligence', i.e. the ability to take into account information from context (location, interaction history, other users, etc.) to facilitate and enrich the user's interaction, by extending to modalities and objects that can make this interaction more natural and better integrated into the ambient environment of users.
* Information Technology for European Advancement, the ITEA program is a European industrial cooperative R&D program in the field of software.
September 2003 : Michel Riguidel on the executive committee of RNRT
Michel Riguidel, head of the IT and Networks Department with Télécom Paris was appointed to the executive committee of RNRT (Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications - National Telecommunications Research Network) on which he represents GET, as a public research player.
September 2003: Christian Roux, professor with the Image and Information Processing Department at ENST Bretagne received the IEEE EMBS Award , one of the IEEE association’s highest honors, for his work in the field of medical information processing.
Further information
June 2003: Jean Pierre Delmas is appointed associate publisher of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing review
May 2003: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 2003, a GET research team honoured
For the first time, a European team has won the prize. It went to GET, awarded to Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux, GET professors (ENST Bretagne) for their invention of Turbo-codes, which marked a crucial advance in the field of ICT.
April 2003 : Philippe Regalia, professor at INT, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking.
May 2003: The PICOLIBRE project , managed by Olivier Berger (professor with the INT's Computing Department), was nominated for free software trophies, in the educational freeware category. A year after its nomination for the Fondation Louis Leprince Ringuet competition for pedagogical innovation, PicoLibre has confirmed its relevance and qualities, and obtained international recognition.
For more information on the PICOLIBRE project
2003: Christian Roux, professor with the Image and Information Processing Department at ENST Bretagne was made an IAMBE (International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering) Fellow.
2002: Fabrice Seguin, professor with ENST Bretagne's Electronics Department, received theSecond Optim ABB Prize Paper Award from the IEEE
November 2002: INPI Trophy for a GET school
Thanks to its policy of research development in innovative fields, ENST Bretagne was a national winner of the INPI Innovation Trophies in 2002.
http://www.inpi.fr
December 2001: Roberval Prize
GET was awarded the 2001 Roberval Prize for its educational CD-ROM 'Mobile telephony in question'. This prize recognises the know-how of GET and its Pedagogical and Technological Innovations Resource Center (CRIPT) for its capacity to design and promote innovative teaching tools in the fields of new information technologies.
Consult the Press Release
2001: Claudine Guerrier, from INT's Department of Management Sciences, received the Limantour Prize from the “Académie des Sciences morales et politiques” (Academy of moral and political sciences) for her work “Les écoutes téléphoniques” (“Phone tapping”).
2001: Arnaud Galisson GET/INT, Xavier Lagrange GET/ENST Bretagne and Gabrielle Landrac GET/ENST Bretagne received the Roberval multimedia prize, for the cdrom “La téléphonie Mobile en questions” (Questions on mobile telephony).
2001: Ramesh Pyndiah, manager of the Signal and Communications Department at ENST Bretagne, received the 2001 Blondel medal from the Société de l’Electricité, de l’Electronique et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (SEE - Electricity, Electronics and Information and Communication Technology Society).
2001: Jean-Claude Bic, GET/Télécom Paris and Annie Gravey, GET/ENST Bretagne, were appointed senior members of the SEE .
2000: Claude Berrou GET/ENST Bretagne, Dominique Lacroix and Pierre Pénard, received the France Télécom Innovation prize
1998: Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux, researchers with ENST Bretagne's Electronics Department received the Montgolfier Prize from the “Société pour l’Encouragement de l’Industrie Nationale” (“Society for the Encouragement of National Industry”).
1998: The Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation (IEEE IT Society) was given to Claude Berrou with Alain Glavieux and Punya Thitimasjhima.
