Search Results for: Artificial Intelligence

Start-ups Energysquare and Opti’Waves receive IMT awards at CES 2019

CES 2019

On January 8, two start-ups from IMT school incubators received Bercy-IMT Innovation Awards in Las Vegas at CES 2019. Energysquare and Opti’Waves won first and second prize, respectively, for these financial support awards sponsored by IMT, Fondation Mines-Télécom and Carnot Télécom & Société numérique. Fondation Mines-Télécom presented the 5 “Coup de Coeur” awards chosen by 5 sponsors (Bouygues Telecom, Deloitte, …

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Chloé Clavel

Télécom Paris | Natural Language Processing, machine learning, affective computing, human-agent interaction

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Robots teaching assistants

ANIMATAS

The H2020 ANIMATAS project, launched in January 2018 for a four-year period, seeks to introduce robots with social skills in schools to assist teaching staff. Chloé Clavel, a researcher in affective computing at Télécom ParisTech, one of the project’s academic partners, answered our questions on her research in artificial intelligence for the ANIMATAS project.   What is the overall focus …

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Renewal of the Cyber CNI Chair: Partners Signed at FIC 2019

cyber CNI chair

After three years of operation, the Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure Chair (Cyber CNI) is being renewed for three more years thanks to the commitment of its academic and industrial partners. The IMT Chair led by IMT Atlantique benefits from partnerships with Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis schools and support from the Brittany region —a region at the forefront of cutting-edge …

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When AI helps predict a patient’s care pathway

care pathway

Researchers at Mines Saint Etienne are using process mining tools to attempt to describe typical care pathways for patients with a given disease. These models can be used to help doctors predict the next steps for treatment or how a disease will progress.   Will doctors soon be able to anticipate patient complications arising from a disease? Will they be …

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Yelda and OSO-AI: new start-ups receive honor loans

Yelda et OSO-AI Yelda and OSO-AI

On December 6, the Committee for the Digital Fund of the Graduate Schools and Universities Initiative chose two start-ups to receive honor loans: Yelda and OSO-AI. Together, Yelda, a start-up from the incubator IMT Starter, and OSO-AI, from the incubator at IMT Atlantique will receive three honor loans, for a total of €80,000. These interest-free loans aimed at boosting the …

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The legal professions coping with the challenge of digital technology

métiers du droit, legal professions

The first two issues of Enjeux numériques/Digital issues focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. These topics reappear in this new issue devoted to the impact of digital technology on the legal professions at a time when big data and advanced algorithms are two major factors in the pursuit of the digital transformation of our society and of jobs. …

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AI in healthcare for the benefit of individuals and society?

healthcare

Article written by Christian Roux (Director of Research and Innovation at IMT), Patrick Duvaut (Director of Innovation at IMT), and Eric Vibert (professor at Université Paris-Sud/Université Paris Saclay, and surgeon at Hôpital Paul Brousse (AP-HP) in Villejuif). How can artificial intelligence be built in such a way that it is humanistic, explainable and ethical? This question is central to discussions …

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AI to assist the elderly

Empathic

Caring and expressive artificial intelligence? This concept that seems to come straight from a man-machine romance like the movie “Her”, is in fact at the heart of a Horizon 2020 project called EMPATHIC. The project aims to develop software for a virtual and customizable coach for assisting the elderly. To learn more, we interviewed the project’s Scientific Director for Télécom …

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What is mechatronics?

quèsaco mécatronique, mechatronics

Intelligent products can perceive their environment, communicate, process information and act accordingly… Is this science fiction?  No, it’s mechatronics! Every day, we come in contact with mechatronic systems, from reflex cameras to our cars’ braking systems. Beyond the technical characteristics of these devices, the term mechatronics also refers to the systemic and comprehensive nature of their design. Pierre Couturier, a …

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