Bruno Courcelle is a French mathematician and computer scientist , best known for Courcelle's theorem in graph theory .
19-799: Courcelle earned his Ph.D. in 1976 from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation , then called IRIA, under the supervision of Maurice Nivat . He then joined the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) at the University of Bordeaux 1 , where he remained for the rest of his career. He has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2007. A workshop in honor of Courcelle's retirement
38-533: A wide class of algorithmic problems in graph theory have efficient solutions. Notable publications also include: French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology ( Inria ) ( French : Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique ) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics . It
57-797: Is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry . Inria has nine research centers distributed across France (in Bordeaux , Grenoble - Inovallée , Lille , Lyon , Nancy , Paris - Rocquencourt , Rennes , Saclay , and Sophia Antipolis ) and one center abroad in Santiago de Chile , Chile. It also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers. Inria Rennes
76-510: Is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December. Along with ICLR and ICML , it is one of the three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research. The conference is currently a double-track meeting (single-track until 2015) that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, followed by parallel-track workshops that up to 2013 were held at ski resorts. The NeurIPS meeting
95-638: Is part of the joint Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires (IRISA) with several other entities. Before December 2007, the three centers of Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay formed a single research center called INRIA Futurs. In October 2010, Inria, with Pierre and Marie Curie University (Now Sorbonne University ) and Paris Diderot University started IRILL , a center for innovation and research initiative for free software. Inria employs 3800 people. Among them are 1300 researchers, 1000 Ph.D. students and 500 postdoctorates. Inria does both theoretical and applied research in computer science. In
114-669: The NeurIPS Conference. The first proceedings was published in book form by the American Institute of Physics in 1987, and was entitled Neural Information Processing Systems , then the proceedings from the following conferences have been published by Morgan Kaufmann (1988–1993), MIT Press (1994–2004) and Curran Associates (2005–present) under the name Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems . The conference
133-633: The Posner Lectureship in honor of NeurIPS founder Ed Posner ; two Posner Lectures were given each year up to 2015. Past lecturers have included: In 2015, the NeurIPS Board introduced the Breiman Lectureship to highlight work in statistics relevant to conference topics. The lectureship was named for statistician Leo Breiman , who served on the NeurIPS Board from 1994 to 2005. Past lecturers have included: In NIPS 2014,
152-758: The US network and allowed NASA researchers access to an astronomical database based in Strasbourg. This was the first international connection to NSFNET and the first time that French networks were connected directly to a network using TCP/IP , the Internet protocol. The Internet in France was limited to research and education for some years to come. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (abbreviated as NeurIPS and formerly NIPS )
171-547: The conference president and learning theorist Yaser Abu-Mostafa as program chairman. Research presented in the early NeurIPS meetings included a wide range of topics from efforts to solve purely engineering problems to the use of computer models as a tool for understanding biological nervous systems. Since then, the biological and artificial systems research streams have diverged, and recent NeurIPS proceedings have been dominated by papers on machine learning , artificial intelligence and statistics . From 1987 until 2000 NeurIPS
190-629: The game of Go, based on neural architectures inspired by the hierarchy of areas in the visual cortex (ConvNet) and reinforcement learning inspired by the basal ganglia (Temporal difference learning). Notable affinity groups have emerged from the NeurIPS conference and displayed diversity, including Black in AI (in 2017), Queer in AI (in 2016), and others. In addition to invited talks and symposia, NeurIPS also organizes two named lectureships to recognize distinguished researchers. The NeurIPS Board introduced
209-567: The meeting was accompanied by workshops organized at a nearby ski resort up until 2013, when it outgrew ski resorts. The first NeurIPS Conference was sponsored by the IEEE . The following NeurIPS Conferences have been organized by the NeurIPS Foundation, established by Ed Posner . Terrence Sejnowski has been the president of the NeurIPS Foundation since Posner's death in 1993. The board of trustees consists of previous general chairs of
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#1732793439895228-601: The process, it has produced many widely used programs, such as Inria furthermore leads French AI Research, ranking 12th worldwide in 2019, based on accepted publications at the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems . During the summer of 1988, the INRIA connected its Sophia-Antipolis unit to the NSFNet via Princeton using a satellite link leased to France Telecom and MCI. The link became operational on 8 August 1988, and allowed INRIA researchers to access
247-493: The program chairs duplicated 10% of all submissions and sent them through separate reviewers to evaluate randomness in the reviewing process. Several researchers interpreted the result. Regarding whether the decision in NIPS is completely random or not, John Langford writes: "Clearly not—a purely random decision would have arbitrariness of ~78%. It is, however, quite notable that 60% is much closer to 78% than 0%." He concludes that
266-426: The years, NeurIPS became a premier conference on machine learning and although the 'Neural' in the NeurIPS acronym had become something of a historical relic, the resurgence of deep learning in neural networks since 2012, fueled by faster computers and big data, has led to achievements in speech recognition , object recognition in images, image captioning , language translation and world championship performance in
285-463: Was created under the name French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation ( IRIA ) ( French : Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique ) in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris , part of Plan Calcul . Its first site was the historical premises of SHAPE (central command of NATO military forces), which is still used as Inria's main headquarters. In 1980, IRIA became INRIA. Since 2011, it has been styled Inria . Inria
304-439: Was first proposed in 1986 at the annual invitation-only Snowbird Meeting on Neural Networks for Computing organized by The California Institute of Technology and Bell Laboratories . NeurIPS was designed as a complementary open interdisciplinary meeting for researchers exploring biological and artificial Neural Networks . Reflecting this multidisciplinary approach, NeurIPS began in 1987 with information theorist Ed Posner as
323-749: Was held in Denver , United States. Since then, the conference was held in Vancouver , Canada (2001–2010), Granada , Spain (2011), and Lake Tahoe , United States (2012–2013). In 2014 and 2015, the conference was held in Montreal , Canada, in Barcelona, Spain in 2016, in Long Beach, United States in 2017, in Montreal, Canada in 2018 and Vancouver, Canada in 2019. Reflecting its origins at Snowbird, Utah ,
342-787: Was held in Bordeaux in 2012. Courcelle was the first recipient of the S. Barry Cooper Prize of the Association Computability in Europe in 2020. In 2022, Courcelle was awarded the EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize . During the COVID-19 pandemic , Courcelle protested against vaccination mandates in France. He is known for Courcelle's theorem , which combines second-order logic , the theory of formal languages , and tree decompositions of graphs to show that
361-537: Was originally abbreviated as "NIPS". By 2018 a few commentators were criticizing the abbreviation as encouraging sexism due to its association with the word nipples , and as being a slur against Japanese . The board changed the abbreviation to "NeurIPS" in November 2018. Along with machine learning and neuroscience, other fields represented at NeurIPS include cognitive science , psychology , computer vision , statistical linguistics , and information theory . Over
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