The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory) is the largest research laboratory of
Informatics in
Grenoble
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France
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. It was created 1 January 2007, as the result of a union of the 24 research teams of the previous IMAG Institute and the
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
Rhône-Alpes.
The scientific project of the LIG is "ambient and sustainable IT". The goal is to leverage the complementary nature and recognised quality of the 23 research teams of the LIG to contribute to fundamental aspects of the discipline (modelling, languages, methods, algorithms) and to create a synergy between the conceptual, technological and societal challenges that surround this theme.
The Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble - LIG) is a laboratory of quite some scale, the academic partners being:
The
CNRS,
Grenoble INP,
Inria
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
Grenoble Rhône-Alpes,
the
Université Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier University (UJF, french: Université Joseph Fourier, also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of Grenoble and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health. It is now part of the Universit ...
,
the
Université Pierre-Mendès-France,
the
Université Stendhal.
The LIG is formed by about 500 people:
- 41% of PhD students,
- 26% of teacher-researchers,
- 14% of post-doc, invited, contracts,
- 10% of full-time researchers,
- 9% of administrative and technical staff.
History
The LIG is under the joint supervision of the
université Grenoble-Alpes, the
Institut polytechnique de Grenoble
The Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) (''Institut polytechnique de Grenoble'', ''Groupe Grenoble INP'' and before INPG) is a French technological university system consisting of eight engineering and management schools.
Grenoble INP ...
, and the
CNRS. It is a partner of the
INRIA
The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...
.
Under the impetus of
Brigitte Plateau
Brigitte Plateau is a French computer scientist. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses majoring in Mathematics (option in Probability Theory), she is a Doctor of Information Studies. A University Professor at Gr ...
, this laboratory is the result of the amalgamation of five former laboratories of the
Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble of Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes.
In 2016, the laboratory, moved from Rue de la Piscine to the IMAG building on Avenue Centrale, by the Laboratoire Jean-Kuntzmann and the VERIMAG laboratory.
Research Domains
LIG research covers a very large range of domains in Informatics. Topics includes for instance
Software Engineering
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Formal Methods
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Multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradit ...
,
Natural Language Processing,
Databases
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...
,
Knowledge representation,
Geographic Information Systems Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...
,
Multi-agent systems
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,
Distributed systems
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
,
Information systems
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...
,
Quantum Computation, etc.
Research Teams
The list of LIG teams is as follows:
* ADELE: Environments and tools for Industrial Software Engineering;
* AMA: Learning: models and algorithms;
* CAPP: Calculations algorithms programs and proofs;
* CTRL-A: Control for safe Autonomic computing systems;
* DRAKKAR: Networks and Multimedia;
* E-MOTION: Geometry and Probability for Movement and Action;
* EXMO: Computer mediated exchange of structured knowledge;
*
GETALP: Study Group for Automatic Translation and Automated Processing of Languages and Speech;
* HAwAI: Human Aware Artificial Intelligence
* HADAS: Heterogenous autonomous distributed data services;
* IIHM: Human-machine interaction engineering;
* MESCAL: Middleware efficiently scalable;
* MeTAH: Method and technology in human learning;
* MOES: Multi-Programming and Distributed Resource Scheduling for Interactive Simulation Applications;
* MRIM: Multimedia Information Modeling and Research;
* MULTICOM: Participatory design, ergonomics, uses for interactive systems. Tools and methods;
* POP ART: Programming languages, operating systems, parallelism & aspects for real-time;
* PRIMA: Perception, recognition and integration for business modeling;
* SARDES: Architecture and construction of distributed software infrastructures;
* SIGMA: Information Systems - Adaptive Engineering and Modeling;
* STEAMER: Spatio-temporal information, adaptability, multimedia and knowledge representation;
* VASCO: Validation of Systems, Components and Software Objects;
* VASY: Validation of systems;
* WAM: Web adaptation and multimedia.
Student life
The courses
Some masters offered by Grenoble-Alpes University require research workshops in the first and second year. Most of the workshops take place at the LIG, thanks to the geographical proximity of the buildings and to the proximity between the students and the teacher-researchers.
Student associations
There is a student association at LIG, LIG-Synergy.
The aim of this association is to promote scientific and social life between PhD students working in the Grenoble computer lab or in collaboration with them. Its activities may be extended to include other personnel of the Laboratory, by welcoming newcomers, organizing social events and scientific seminars, and various services.
References
External links
LIG website
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Computer science institutes in France
Educational institutions in Grenoble
Science and technology in Grenoble
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in France
French National Centre for Scientific Research