Jerome Waldispuhl will be presenting Phylo, an online scientific discovery game on DNA sequencing, at Fabelier, Tuesday May 22/5 at 7pm.

TITLE: Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming

DESCRIPTION: The comparison of the human genome with the DNA of other species of is essential to decipher our genetic code and reveal the causes of various genetic disorders.

In this talk, we introduce Phylo a human-based computing framework applying “crowd sourcing” techniques to solve the Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) problem. The key idea of Phylo is to convert the MSA problem into a casual puzzle game that can be played by ordinary web users with a minimal prior knowledge of the biological context. The solution collected are then used to produce highly accuracy genome alignments that are publicly released to help genetic research. Phylo is accessible at: http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca

TAKE AWAY: We show how the computational power generated by gamers can be recycled to solve a difficult computational genomic problem.

BIOGRAPHY: Jérôme Waldispühl is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Montreal’s McGill University and a member of the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics. Jérôme and and his colleague, Mathieu Blanchette, are the creators of Phylo, a pattern-matching genome alignment online game that will give researchers deeper insight into genetic codes and could help identify the origins of genetic disease. Before joining McGill, he received a PhD in computer science from École Polytechnique (France) and was an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT.

WHAT: http://fabelier.org/phylo-by-jerome-waldispuhl-fabelier

WHERE: http://fabelier.org/where

WHEN : http://fabelier.org/events-agenda/
See you there !

Antoine

In this presentation, we show how to exploit real-time communication applications to determine the IP address of a targeted user. We focus our study on Skype, although other real-time communication applications may have similar privacy issues. We first design a scheme that calls an identified-targeted user inconspicuously to find his IP address, which can be done even if he is behind a NAT. By calling the user periodically, we can then observe the mobility of the user. We show how to scale the scheme to observe the mobility patterns of tens of thousands of users. We also consider the linkability threat, in which the identified user is linked to his Internet usage. We illustrate this threat by combining Skype and BitTorrent to show that it is possible to determine the filesharing usage of identified users. We devise a scheme based on the identification field of the IP datagrams to verify with high accuracy whether the identified user is participating in specific torrents. We conclude that any Internet user can leverage Skype, and potentially other real-time communication systems, to observe the mobility and filesharing usage of tens of millions of identified users.

Arnaud Legout is a researcher at INRIA in Planète team.

Planète conducts research in the domain of networking, with an emphasis on designing, implementing, and evaluating Internet protocols and applications. The main objective of the project-team is to propose and study new architectures, services and protocols that will enable efficient and secure communication through the Internet.

WHAT : http://fabelier.org/i-know-where-you-are-and/

WHERE : http://fabelier.org/where/

WHEN : http://fabelier.org/events-agenda/

What : http://fabelier.org/meshwork-trolling-session-blackbox
Where : 17 rue de la Chapelle 75018 Paris
CODE portail A2546 au fond de l’impasse.
Métro Marx Dormoy
When : Wed. April 25th :: http://fabelier.org/events-agenda/

The wannabe life scientists : In Vitro Artificial Intelligence fdv Club.
The wannabe computer tinkerers : fabelier.org
Where : http://fabelier.org/where
When : April, 18th, 7pm

Slides of the presentation

• When : 11 / 04 / 2012 : 18h30
• Where : Fabelier
• What : Creative commons and scientific data

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay is a researcher at the CNRS Institute for
Communication Sciences and Creative Commons France legal lead at CERSA
CNRS University Paris 2 where she is associated researcher. She
co-founded Communia international association on the digital public
domain.

Her presentation will focus on open access to scientific data, aiming
at comparing open access policies and at identifying barriers and
incitations to the sharing of scientific data in different cultures,
institutional policies and disciplines.

Wed. 21th of March 5pm, Romain Chanut and his Jerry’s friends will do a workshop on “Jerry, the DIY server” ( http://youandjerrycan.tumblr.com/ )
The idea is to use Jerricans and other cheap materials to build servers that could help some schools in developing countries to have some online tools and ressources in their classes.

Full description of the event (in french) :

http://workshopjerryfabelier.eventbrite.com/

As always and forever, fabelier’s workshops are free. However, the eventbrite.com page give you the opportunity to give some money in order to have the material to get your own server running at the end of the workshop, and to contribute to the project.

WHAT : http://fabelier.org/?p=252
WHERE : http://fabelier.org/where
WHEN : Wed. March the 21th, 5pm

See you there,
Antoine

This Friday, February 17th, Fabelier will welcome Amelia Andersdotter, European deputy for the Swedish Pirate Party, at 5pm.
Amelia will talk about contemporary information policy, internet freedom and will explore with us the existing and future bridges between hackerspaces, fablabs, universities, entrepreneurship, open science, and more.
Above all we wish a free interaction with the audience and a question-based event, so bring your ideas and projects with you !
When : Friday, Feb. 17th
Where : @fabelier
Amphi Lutton (groundfloor)
24 rue du faubourg Saint-Jacques
75014 Paris

Video of the conference :
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fabelier

While tinkering with Sulci internals, the workshop will introduce these classic NLP algorithms.

English version above ————————
Développé dans le labo de Libération pour ses besoins internes, Sulci est une application open-source de «text-mining par inférence sémantique à apprentissage supervisé». Si on ne veut pas utiliser de gros mot, on peut dire que son boulot est de *déterminer de quoi parle un texte*.
Son moteur est basé sur de nombreux algorithmes de traitement automatique du langage (TAL), de la tokénisation à l’apprentissage par pondération statistique, en passant par le POS tagging ou la lemmatisation.
En rentrant un peu dans le moteur de Sulci, cet atelier-présentation sera l’occasion de faire connaissance avec ces algorithmes classiques du TAL.