Last April 19, ten public research organizations met in Rennes and created SISCom-Bretagne, a scientific interest group in the field of information and communication science for telecommunications and their applications. What is the purpose of the new facility? It is to increase Brittany's academic research dynamics in the field, enhance the group's international profile, and give it weight in the world of European research. By organizing major scientific events, the initiative should also increase the appeal of the network of players to welcome renowned foreign scientists and increase synergy between members, namely by pooling extant and planned scientific platforms. The group will also be providing support to innovation and competitiveness in the telecommunications industry.
SISCom-Bretagne's first actions are scheduled for launch in September 2007. Eight topics have been selected for the shared tasks and activities: - Digital and optical communications - Chips and secure communicating systems - Communication networks - Ubiquitous computing - Large-scale distributed system - Multimedia data processing - Statistics for telecom applications - Web, interaction and uses
All the above tasks and activities may prefigure the missions of a future SISCom-Sophia on the same model.
