Joseph Mariani

After being director of LIMSI-CNRS from 1989 to 2000, and head of its "Human-Machine Communication” department from 1987 to 2000, I’ve been Director of the "Information and Communication Technologies" department at the French Ministry for Research (Technology Directorate) from 2001 to 2006. I’m now director of the Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information (IMMI), which is a joint International Laboratory between LIMSI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and RWTH Aachen (Germany). This Institute has been settled in the framework of the Quaero program. I chaired the Scientific Committee of the Virtual Reality VENISE transversal Action at LIMSI, which recently benefited from a new building. The laboratory is part of large scale actions in the Ile-de-France region, such as Digiteo, and cooperates with Competitiveness clusters, such as System@tic and Cap Digital. I chaired the "Information Sciences and Technologies (Computer Science, Command and contr