In this project, we specify and design error correction codes suitable for an efficient protection of sensitive information in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) and connected objects. Such codes mitigate passive attacks, like memory disclosure, and active attacks, like stack smashing. The innovation of this project is to leverage these codes for protecting against both cyber and physical attacks. The main advantage is a 360° coverage of attacks of the connected embedded systems, which is considered as a smart connected device and also a physical device. The outcome of the project is first a method to generate and execute cyber-resilient software, and second to protect data and its manipulation from physical threats like side-channel attacks. Theses results are demonstrated by using a smart sensor application with hardened embedded firmware and tamper-proof hardware platform.

In order to contribute to the history of the genocidal and repressive inner workings of the French state, the project aims to list and study the personal files of individuals identified as ideological and racial enemies by the Vichy regime: census records on Jews, anti-Masonic files, files on Jewish children taken into custody by child protection services. Our objective is to understand how these documents were put together, and how they were used, from the Occupation period to the present day, when the issue of opening them to the public and to researchers is of major importance in terms of individual and collective memory. Supported by two history research centers, the IHTP (Université Paris 8, CNRS) and the CRH (EHESS, CNRS), the Archives nationales (AN) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the project will bring together archivists and historians. Combining case studies and a global approach, it will focus on three aspects. It will shift the focus of enquiry, from Paris to the regions, by identifying and studying new records in departmental archives, as well as at the Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM) for colonial Algeria. We want to understand the administrative life of these records, by analysing sources that have so far been neglected by researchers, and records that local census will help us identify. Finally, we want to understand their afterlife, by distinguishing between post-war administrative uses and uses for memorial purposes: reparation, commemoration, ego-history. Their consultation by the people concerned and their descendants will be the subject of an oral survey at the departmental archives, the ANOM and the AN. In addition to the publication of scientific articles and conference proceedings, a guide to sources and a database of those involved in the registration process will be developed. The results will be shared with a wide audience through conferences, virtual exhibitions and a web documentary.

The aim of SMeLT is to provide a methodology to learn a similarity measure that is optimized for a given analogical transfer task. Among the different tasks that computational analogy systems implement, the transfer task matches a predictive and hypothetical inference in which some knowledge is extrapolated from a similar situation in order to interpret a new situation and complete its description. By providing a set of quality indicators for the similarity measure, and a metric learning method that optimizes these indicators, this project will unlock a major bottleneck that currently prevents a widespread application of transfer methods to real scenarii, which is to learn a similarity measure that is adequate for the task at hand. The project is a pluridisciplinary effort, that brings together researchers from cognitive science, computer science (computational analogy and similarity measures specialists), and health sciences (medical decision support specialists). The proposed methodology will be evaluated in two different application domains: the cooking domain, and the domain of decision support for the therapeutic management of breast cancer.

Online platforms play a growing role in the circulation of information and in the production of power asymetries in surveillance capitalism. Accessing the data that is necessary to study them is, however, no easy task, given that these platforms often function as closed black-boxes. Several recent scientific publications recently called for the development of the collective use of individual personal data access rights, based on article 15 of the GDPR. This project aims at implementing this idea, which so far has remained a theoretical proposal, into practice. This will be done in several fields, including video streaming services, platform workers and young users of social media. Working with patner civil society organisations, DATARights is first going to establish the precise extent and rules governing data subject access requests, taking into account the latest case law. The implementation of these rules by data controllers will be measured and documented, including the practical obstacles recruited participants may face when trying to exercise their access rights. Recovered data sets will then be shared on a voluntary basis, in compliance with data protection law, and studied collectively to determine its possible uses both for research and for participating data subjects themselves. This will all contribute to the development of new methods taking into account legal and ethical duties regarding i.a. anonymisation, that may then be applied to data sets from Very Large Only Platforms that are due to become accessible to vetted researchers based on article 40 of the new Digital Services Act of the European Union.

The major research programmes of the last forty years have essentially focused on the period that saw cinema emerge as a medium and as an “attraction”. But the 1910s – corresponding to what we still consider to be the institutionalisation of cinema’s economic and industrial structures – is also a crucial decade, in particular when it comes to the development of the film rental system, the expansion of specialised theatres and the standardisation of film production (above all under Pathé’s guidance). From this “early” phase emerged what we commonly call “classical cinema”. However, the transitional years spanning from 1908 to 1919 haven been somewhat overlooked, demanding more careful scrutiny. Such is the general purpose of CINÉ08-19 which, through a number of exhaustive and original enquiries focusing on cinema in France and its empire, aims to cast a new light on these decisive years. Based upon a multidisciplinary research team – gathering film and cultural historians, archivists, librarians, as well as researchers and representatives from the project’s institutional partners –, CINÉ08-19 purports, in addition, to create an interactive and scalable online platform. The latter will allow for the content management of archives linked to the project’s research, while simultaneously guarantying free access to its outcomes.