Book A new French book by Hugues Bersini that aims at explaining key phenomena of the current information technology through famous movies. The topics being covered are AI, microprocessors, security, object orientation, open source, networks, robotics. Movies such as 2001 Space Odyssey, AI, Minority Report, The Net, You've got a mail, Millennium and many others are exploited to shed new light on these topics.
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Research project – "Meta-X: Metaheuristics for Complex Optimization Problems" is a collaborative project between the IRIDIA and SMG laboratories of CoDE. The research topic of Meta-X is the study of metaheuristics for the solution of difficult problems in discrete optimization. In Meta-X we will tackle problems that have multiple objectives, dynamically changing characteristics or data, or where some information is stochastic, and combinations of such features. Meta-X is an Action de Recherche Concertée funded by the Scientific Research Directorate of the French Community of Belgium. It started on October 1, 2008, and will last five years.

New project – The Varibru project started on October 1st, 2007. VariBru will address the paradox of the ICT industry in the domain of variability: How to maintain efficiency while at the same time offer a much richer product variety to the customers? Varibru is a research project supported by the Brussels Capital Region. In addition to CoDE, there are five other teams taking part in the project: Sirris, VUB-PROG and VUB-SSEL, VUB-WISE and UCL-INGI.