Entries by I'MTech

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Nuclear energy: outsourcing issues

Since the end of the 20th century, the practice of outsourcing has increased in France. This phenomenon has included strategic sectors, such as the nuclear power industry. Stéphanie Tillement, a researcher in Sociology at IMT Atlantique, has worked on the relationship between safety and subcontracting in the nuclear industry. “Since the 1970s, we have witnessed […]

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Stronger 3D prints

3D printing is a manufacturing process used for both consumer and industrial applications in the aeronautics, automotive, rail and medical industries. The Shoryuken project being developed at IMT Nord Europe aims to improve the mechanical performance of the objects printed using plastic and composite materials. To accomplish this, it combines 3D printing with laser welding […]

Olivier Fournout

Télécom Paris | Social sciences, Culture and society, Ethics of dialogue [toggle title=”find all his articles on I’MTech” state=”open”] New Heroism: a paradoxical model of success [/toggle]

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New Heroism: a paradoxical model of success

Today, the ideals of success cover multiple areas of society, such as work, cinema, and personal life. In his book Le Nouvel Héroïsme, Olivier Fournout, a sociologist and semiologist at Télécom Paris, analyzes the conditions that have allowed the emergence of a model of success that is riddled with paradoxes. A hero is a someone […]

Gaël Richard

Télécom Paris | Audio signal processing, Audio analysis, Music information retrieval, Machine listening

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BeePMN: Monitoring bees to take better care of them

At the crossroads between Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, the BeePMN research project aims to help amateur and professional beekeepers. It will feature an intuitive smartphone app that combines business processes with real-time measurements of apiaries.  When a swarm of bees becomes too crowded for its hive, the queen stops laying eggs and […]

Gregory Zacharewicz

IMT Mines Alès | Modeling, Multi agents simulation, Semantic approaches [toggle title=”Find all his articles on I’MTech” state=”open”] BeePMN: Monitoring bees to take better care of them [/toggle]

Guillaume Moreau

IMT Atlantique | Metaverse, Virtual reality, Augmented reality [toggle title=”Find all his articles on I’MTech” state=”open”] What is the metaverse? [/toggle]

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What is the metaverse?

Although it is only in the prototype stage, the metaverse is already making quite a name for itself. This term, which comes straight out of a science fiction novel from the 1990s, now describes the concept of a connected virtual world, heralded as the future of the Internet. So what’s hiding on the other side […]