Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

Organization of workshops and conferences.

• Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Senellart and Victor Vianu organized the Final Workshop for Web data management (nicknamed Webdone) in Paris 2013.

Program Committees.

• Cristina Sirangelo: 16th Intl. Conf. on Database Theory (ICDT 2013). ICDT 2013 Test of Time Award.

• Luc Segoufin: Intl. Conf. on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'13).

Responsibilities.

• Luc Segoufin is since 2010 part of the “bureau du commité des projets” à l'Inria Saclay. Since 2011 he is part of the scientific board of Inria. Since 2010 he is responsible of the groupe de travail “Complexité et Modèles Finis” du GDR “Mathématique et Informatique” (http://www.gdr-im.fr/ ).

• S. Abiteboul is the principal investigator of the European Research Council Grant Webdam on Web Data Management.

  As a member of the Sciences Academy, S. Abiteboul wrote a report on "L'enseignement de l'informatique en France - Il est urgent de ne plus attendre”.

  S. Abiteboul is since 2013 a member of the Conseil national de la recherche. As a member, he participated in 2013 in reports on Net neutrality, Computer science education, and digital inclusion.

  S. Abiteboul is chairman of the Inria Awards committee.

  S. Abiteboul is chairman of the Scientific Board of Société d'Informatique de France.

  S. Abiteboul is a member of the Academic Senat of the University Paris-Saclay.

  S. Abiteboul is a member of the Academia Europea.

Larger audience.

In 2013, S. Abiteboul gave talks to Entretiens de la Cité in Lyon, Conférence cultures numériques, éducation aux médias et à l’information in Lyon, Conférences Science et société in Nancy, Congrès de la Société informatique de France in Nice, Forum régionaux des Savoirs in Rouen. Journéee Economie de la connaissance et économie numérique at IHEST, Saclay.

In particular, S. Abiteboul gave talks on Big data in insurances at Journée SCOR sur les Big data et les assurrances, and Journéee Ifpas de l’assurance in Paris; on Big data and health at Open data et santé, Congrés Health IT. He also discussed the place of fiction in the Web at Séminaire Vérifiction, CNAM, Paris, 2013.

S. Abiteboul a été également auditionné à l’Assemblée nationale par la commission des affaires économiques, Mission d’information sur l’économie numérique; et par l’Office parlementaire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques, sur le Risque numérique. 2013.

S. Abiteboul gave interviews to Le Monde, Famille Chrétienne, and 01Net.