General presentation

 

This course intends to show important trends in the information systems research. It covers three topics of great importance: the handling of three-dimensional information combined with real data or images, the managing of great amount of data generated by ubiquitous System Information and the organization of hardware resources in terms of architecture and algorithms to achieve a high performance computer. So, the course contemplates three modules: Development of Mixed Reality Software, Data Management in Ubiquitous Information Systems, and High Performance Computing: architecture and algorithms design. These topics can be part of any Information System.

 Development of Software for Mixed Reality allows designing new applications and creating a prototype into the mixed reality environment.

 Data Management in Ubiquitous Information Systems has been used for decades by companies and organizations where data management is crucial. The explotion of information led to the need of accessing and managing data from a variety of sources.

The module High Performance Computing: architecture and algorithms design, highlights growing trends in computer architecture for increasing computing power by the aggregation of resources.

 

Guest Speakers:

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Pablo FIGUEROA, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA

Professor Figueroa studied Systems Engineering at the National University of Colombia, he obtained this master degree at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) in Systems and Computing Engineering. His PhD degree in Computer Science was obtained at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2004, working on Retargeting of Virtual Reality Applications. Additionally, Professor Figueroa was postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Ciences de l’Ingénieur, LIMSi in Orsay, France. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Computing Engineering Department of Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. Professor Figueroa is author of several publications related mainly with Virtual Reality, Collaborative Applications, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Graphics. His current research topics are Mixed Reality and Games Development. Presently he is member of the Imagine research group at Universidad de los Andes, whose main area of interest is Visual Computing.

 

http://agamenon.uniandes.edu.co/~pfiguero/Site_2/Welcome.html

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Claudia RONCANCIO, Laboratoire D'Informatique de Grenoble, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France

Professor Roncancio studied Systems Engineer at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She obtained her master degree at Université Paris XI, Orsay, France. In addition, she followed postgraduate studies (DEA Informatique) at Institut  Polytechnique de Grenoble at the IMAG-LGI laboratory. She obtained her PhD degree at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France in the subject of Object Oriented Database Management Systems. Currently, she teaches since 1995 at Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble-Ensimag, at master’s and doctoral level and she became research advisor (Professeur des Universités) in 2004. Professor Roncancio is member of the Sigma research group at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble,  she works in several projects related with Ubiquitous Systems, Grid Computing and Databases.

http://www-lsr.imag.fr/Les.Personnes/Claudia.Roncancio/new_site/index.html

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Yves DENNEULIN, Laboratoire LIG-ENSIMAG - Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France

 

Professor Denneulin followed postgraduate studies at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France. He continued doctoral studies at the same university. Professor Denneulin has been member of LIG laboratory and co-director of the MESCAL research project at the INRIA since 1998. Since 1998, he has teached at the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble and he became research advisor (Professeur des Universités) in 2008. Among his major research interest areas are Large-scale High-Performance Computing, Large-scale Storage Systems, Large-scale Indexing methods, Parallel Computing and Cryptography.

 

http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/yves.denneulin/mainsite/index.html

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 Course Coordinator:

Helga DUARTE, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.

 http://www.docentes.unal.edu.co/hduarte/