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From 29 to 31 January, we welcomed 13 secondary school pupils to give them an insight into the world of IT research. Over the course of the three days, our researchers took time to welcome Liam, Come, Alwena, William, Basile, Alban, Alois, Pierre, Jules, Amélia, Camille, Tytouan and Violette, who had come to IRISA and the Inria centre at the University of Rennes to complete their work placement [..]

Synapse, the first joint laboratory combining a media organisation and academic research With the support of the French National Research Agency, Ouest-France, CNRS and the University of Rennes are launching Synapse, the first joint laboratory aimed to interconnect artificial intelligence, the media, press content, journalists and readers. Synapse will work towards quality journalism, offering [..]

Find out about all the events organised as part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations

IRISA wishes you all the best for 2025, a landmark year! The laboratory is celebrating its 50th anniversary and invites you to take part in a series of special events throughout the year. Stay tuned for the full programme and make sure you don't miss a thing of this historic event!

From December 3 to 5, 2024, Rennes hosted Sport Physics 2024, a high-level international scientific conference dedicated to advances in scientific research in the fields of physics and biomechanics related to high-performance sports. This event, held every four years after the Summer Olympic Games, brings together experts and researchers to discuss the latest findings in the field. The conference [..]

Do we study an archaeological artifact differently in VR and in reality? The work carried out as part of Maxime Dumonteil's thesis in the HYBRID team - in collaboration with the archaeology laboratory of the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Trajectoires - studies the differences in behavior when carrying out a task in archaeology, between real and virtual environments. Experimentation carried [..]

Anne-Cécile Orgerie: the digital challenge to save energy (in french only) Quelle est l’empreinte environnementale du numérique et comment la réduire  ? Ces questions sont au cœur des travaux d’Anne-Cécile Orgerie, directrice de recherche CNRS à l'IRISA (Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires - CNRS/Université de Rennes). Ses contributions lui valent de recevoir le Prix [..]

Congratulations to Anne-Cécile Orgerie, winner of the Lovelace-Babbage prize awarded by the Académie des Sciences, in partnership with the Société Informatique de France. Anne-Cécile Orgerie, a CNRS researcher and member of the Magellan team, is studying the environmental impact of distributed systems, the large digital infrastructures that process, store and share information via the Internet [..]