by Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur on the European Research Area

• Philippe Baptiste Winner of the 2000 Cor Baayen Award
• Strategic Workshops - Shaping future EU-NSF collaborations
  in Information Technologies

INRIA is growing at an Unprecedented Pace and is starting a Recruiting Drive on a European Scale

• Introduction: Graphics and Visualization - Breaking New Frontiers
  • by Carol O'Sullivan and Roberto Scopigno
• 3D Scanning for Computer Graphics
  • by Holly Rushmeier
• Subdivision Surfaces in Geometric Modelling
  • by Pavel Chalmoviansky
• A System for Out-of-Core Simplification of Huge Meshes
  • by Paolo Cignoni and Roberto Scopigno
• A Graphical System for Internal Density Modelling by Coons Bodies
  • by Silvester Czanner and Roman Durikovic
• Multiresolution Modelling of Surface and Volume Data
  • by Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo and Enrico Puppo
• New CAD Tools for Aesthetic Design
  • by Chiara Catalano, Bianca Falcidieno, Franca Giannini, Maria Meirana and Marina Monti
    
• Image-Based Acquisition of Virtual Gallery Model
  • by Michal Haindl and Pavel Slavík
• Computation of Medial Surfaces
  • by Gábor Renner
• A Low-cost Optical 3D Scanner
  • by Claudio Rocchini and Roberto Scopigno
• Shape Modelling and Processing: Methods and Applications
  • by Bianca Falcidieno and Michela Spagnuolo
• Reverse Engineering Shapes
  • by Tamás Várady
• SOLEIL - Application of the Radiosity Method to the Physiological Simulation of Plant Growth
  • by François Sillion and Cyril Soler
• Image-Based Rendering for Industrial Applications
  • by Samuel Boivin and André Gagalowicz
• Colour Texture Modelling
  • by Michal Haindl and Vojtech Havlícek
• Comparing Real & Synthetic Scenes using Human Judgements of Lightness
  • by Ann McNamara
• Facial Repertoires for Animation on the Web
  • by Zsófia Ruttkay
• 3D Medical Visualization: Breaking the Limits of Diagnostics and Treatment
  • by Andreas H. König and Eduard Gröller
• Real-time Visualization through the Internet
  • by Xavier Cavin and François Cuny
• The Pond: Trawling the Information Sea
  • by Lennart E. Fahlén, Jan Humble, Olov Ståhl, Jonas Söderberg and Anders Wallberg
• Advances in Computer-assisted Visualization
  • by Julian Gallop
• Graph Visualization of Complex Information
  • by Ivan Herman
• Interactive Visualization of Protein Dynamics
  • by Henk Huitema and Robert van Liere
• Physical Deforming Agents for Virtual Neurosurgery
  • by Michele Marini, Ovidio Salvetti, Sergio Di Bona and Ludovico Lutzemberger
• Visualization of Complex Dynamical Systems in Theoretical Physics
  • by Anatoly Fomenko, Stanislav Klimenko and Igor Nikitin
• Simulation and Visualization of Processes in Moving Granular Bed Gas Cleanup Filter
  • by Pavel Slavík, Frantisek Hrdlicka and Ondrej Kubelka
• Watching Chromosomes during Cell Division
  • by Robert van Liere
• The blue-c Project
  • by Markus Gross and Oliver Staadt
• Augmenting the Common Working Environment by Virtual Objects
  • by Wolfgang Broll
• Levels of Detail in Physically-based Real-time Animation
  • by John Dingliana and Carol O’Sullivan
• Static Solution for Real Time Deformable Objects with Fluid Inside
  • by Ivan F. Costa and Remis Balaniuk
• Exploring Virtual Prototypes using Time-Critical Rendering Techniques
  • by Enrico Gobbetti and Riccardo Scateni
• Haptic Rendering of Molecular Properties
  • by Ales Krenek and Ludek Matyska
• The Virtual Museum of Daily Life in 20th Century Bologna
  • by Maria Chiara Liguori, Donatella Vasetti, Maria Elena Bonfigli, Antonella Guidazzoli and Alessio Mauri
• Augmented Reality - Seeing More
  • by Hellmuth Nordwig
• Interactive Computer Graphics at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • by Lakshmi Sastry, Gavin Doherty and Michael Wilson
• Conceptual Free-Form Styling on the Responsive Workbench
  • by Gerold Wesche and Marc Droske

• Combining Operations Research and Constraint Programming to Solve Real-Life Scheduling Problems
  • by Philippe Baptiste
• On-line Graph Coloring
  • by Jenö Lehel
• Boosting Algorithms for Automated Text Categorization
  • by Fabrizio Sebastiani, Alessandro Sperduti and Nicola Valdambrini
• Pattern Formation in Electric Discharges
  • by Ute Ebert
• Design of Efficient Input/Output Intensive Data Mining Applications
  • by Ranieri Baraglia, Domenico Laforenza, Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini and Raffaele Perego
• Signware - A Learning Platform in Biology for Pupils with Hearing Difficulties
  • by Kathrin Bolits

Reports

• MFCS 2000 - Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • by Branislav Rovan
• EUROGRAPHICS 2000 Conference Report
  • by David Duce
• FORTE/PSTV 2000
  • by Tommaso Bolognesi
• AD2000 - The Third International Conference on Automatic Differentiation: From Simulation to Optimization
  • by Uwe Naumann
• Joint ERCIM Workshop on Databases and Environmental Modelling
  • by Brian Read and Thomas Lux
• First Results of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
  • by Carol Peters

Announcements

• First DELOS International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies
  • Pisa, Italy, 9-13 July 2001
• The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Hong Kong, 16-18 April 2001
• Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
  • Ascona, Switzerland, 28-30 May 2001
• Continuity in Future Computing Systems - I3 Spring Days Workshop
  • Porto, Portugal, 23-24 April 2001
• International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture
  • Dublin, 21-22 June 2001
• MFCS 2001 - 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic, 27-31 August 2001
• ICSM - International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Florence, Italy, 6-12 November 2001
• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Special Issue on Automated Text Categorization, Call for Papers
• ECOOP 2001 - 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
  • Budapest, 18-22 June 2001
• FMICS 2001 - 6th ERCIM Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
  • Paris, 16-17 July 2001
• SCCG 2001 - Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
  • Budmerice Castle, Slovak Republic, 25-28 April 2001

• CWI - Edsger W. Dijkstra (70) visited his old institute CWI..
• CWI - When Dirk Struik passed away..
• SZTAKI - SZTAKI actively participated in the Cactus testbed demo of the European Grid Forum..
• CLRC - The Numerical Analysis Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has released HSL 2000, a collection of Fortran packages..
• CWI - EU Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin visited CWI..
• VTT - Aarno Lehtola has been honored with a medal from the IEEE..
• INRIA - Emmanuel Cecchet was awarded the IEEE prize,‘computer’ section..