News – Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans

le LIUM gagne le Trophées du Campus de l’Innovation d’Angers - Le Mans – Prix Transition

Meeting between middle school girls and computer science students

The Computer Science department and Ensim welcomed about fifteen students from the 9th grade, who came to meet the female students of the computer science program, as well as various female teachers and researchers working in this field at ENSIM and the LIUM.

Art and AI

LIUM researchers teamed up with local artist Sarah Lembo to show fourth graders from Bérangère de Navarre and Joséphine Baker high schools how art and artificial intelligence can be combined.

Le LIUM mis à l'honneur par le Mans Innovation

SituLearn dans le courrier de la Mayenne

Le courrier de la Mayenne consacre un article au projet SituLearn et à Guy THEARD, un des enseignants pilotes du projet, qui a créé déjà plus de 9 sorties pédagogiques avec l'application.

Innovation pédagogique : le LIUM reçoit un prix international !

Les chercheurs du Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) ont reçu le 1er décembre en Finlande, le 3ème prix de la Games and Learning Alliance Conference pour leur serious game « Le Chaudron Magique ».

Best paper de la conférence internationale GALA

Iza MARFISI et Bertrand MARNE, deux chercheurs du LIUM ont gagné le best paper awadr à la conférence internationale GALA Games and Learning Alliance, le 1er décembre à Tampere, Finland !

The LIUM gets a new logo

The LIUM gets a new logo!

Groupe AEF info consacre une dépêche à la signature de la convention entre Le Mans Université et Réseau Canopé 📝

le LIUM sera présent au Digital ON - le festival des cultures numériques

Best poster at ECTEL 2022 conference

The SituLearn project won best poster award at the international ECTEL conference.

dossier EdTech

Iza MARFISI - SCHOTTMAN, Maitre de conférences au LIUM, présente ses projets de recherche dans le dossier thématique edtech de la SATT Ouest Valorisation.

Risks of the digital and computer environment in education

Digital school dropout, isolation, attention deficit disorder... the Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated the limits of the digital world. At the Centre de Recherche en Éducation de Nantes (CREN) and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans (LIUM), Florent Carlier and Sébastien George, both teacher-researchers in computer science, and their teams are studying the reactions, traces and behaviors of pupils and students in computer environments. Their goal is to help teachers to improve pedagogical activities and thus limit the risks linked to digital technology and distance.

Artificial intelligence, risks and automatic speech transcription

Anthony Larcher and Antoine Laurent, computer scientists at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM), train artificial intelligences to understand the human voice as well as possible. Their goal: to reduce the risk of error that the machine can make as much as possible, but also to allow humans to rely on their analytical capacity to make a decision.

Researchers from LIUM participates to the JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology et au JSALT workshop

3 PhD students and 2 teachers-researchers partipate to the annual JSALT workshop organized by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

Cycle de webinaires sur l'égalité filles-garçons

Une chercheuse du LIUM présente ses travaux dans le cadre d'un cycle de webinaires sur l'égalité filles-garçons organisé par le ministère de l'éducation.

"Girls, Maths and Computing: A Smart Equation" Day

On Tuesday 11 January, a day of awareness-raising on gender stereotypes and post-baccalaureate orientation was held for a mixed audience of high school students. This day was organised by the associations Animath and Femmes&Maths.

International day for Girls' Science and Technology Awareness

On Thursday 9 December, the international day to raise awareness among young girls about scientific and technical professions took place. Nathalie Camelin, Nicolas Dugué and Marie Tahon spoke to the students of the Touchard high school in partnership with the association "Elles bougent".

Une nouvelle étoile montante à Le Mans Université

Iza Marfisi, a teacher-researcher in computer science, has been awarded the "Rising Stars" programme for her MIXAP project at the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM). This programme, set up by the Pays de la Loire Region, supports young researchers by helping them to develop their research project. One of its main challenges is to support them in submitting a future project of greater impact at the European level.

Will living with intelligent machines make the world more fair?

Find the podcast of Anthony Larcher's intervention on France Bleu Maine at this address: https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/2-minutes-pour-explorer-avec-maine-sciences/maine

TurtleTablet wins the best Serious Game at the International ECGBL competition

Inauguration du UserLab Distribué Pédagogique

Le UserLab a été créé dans le but de favoriser la co-conception de situations de formation avec des enseignants afin de susciter des innovations techno-pédagogiques, mais aussi d'évaluer leur utilité et leur mise en application. Installé sur deux sites distants (Le Mans et Laval), le Userlab aura la spécificité d’appréhender les dynamiques individuelles et collectives, en présentiel et à distance.

The LIUM Human Active Correction Platform for Speaker Diarization

The human assisted speaker diarization platform enables a human annotator to correct the output of any speaker diarization system by providing a graphical view of the diarization segmentation and clustering steps and guiding the human annotator to optimize the correction process and easily improve the resulting diarization.

Best paper award for Thibault Prouteau at IDA

The paper SINr: fast computing of Sparse Interpretable Node Representations is not a sin! recieved the best paper award at the 19th Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2021).

Congrats to Thibault Prouteau, Nicolas Dugué, Nathalie Camelin and Sylvain Meignier!

PEPS 2018 Prize

Three researchers of LIUM (Iza MARFISI, Sébastien GEORGE et Aous KAROUI) received the PEPS national prize (Passion for pedagogy in higher education) in the category "supporting pedagogy". This category rewards outstanding support actions that encourage the involvement of teachers and researchers in the sustainable transformation of teaching methods on a significant scale.