Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• The SPIE group's digital services subsidiary, and INSA Lyon announce their joint inauguration of a teaching and research chair in the Internet of Things (IoT). Backed by the CITI laboratory (Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of service), this chair is being set up within the context of the future technological and social upheaval entailed by the Internet of Things. It will closely involve the skills of the laboratory within the IoT theme and will aim to develop and promote the know-how of SPIE ICS, the first digital services provider to appoint a chair, and INSA Lyon, through a research program aimed at innovation. Jean-Marie Gorce will be responsible for administration the chair funding within the Citi lab.

• The numap memory profiling library (developped in the team during Manuel Selva's PhD work) has been officially integrated into the Turnus dataflow profiler. Turnus  [54] is a profiler dedicated to dynamic dataflow programs.

• Samir M. Perlaza and Selma Belhadj Amor delivered the tutorial “Simultaneous Energy and Information Transmission” in: $\left(a\right)$ International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, Greece, May, 2016; $\left(b\right)$ International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM), Grenoble, France, May, 2016; $\left(c\right)$ European Wireless Conference (EW), Oulu, Finland, May, 2016, together with Ioannis Kikridis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus).