Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Jens Gustedt is regularly blogging about efficient programming in particular the C programming language . He also is an active member of the stackoverflow community a technical Q&A site for programming and related subjects.

L. Nussbaum currently serves as the (elected) Debian Project Leader since April 2013.

M. Quinson develops a pedagogic platform in collaboration with G. Oster (Score team of Inria Nancy Grand Est). This tool aims at providing an environment that is both appealing for the student, easy to use for the teacher, and efficient for the learning process. It is available from its page .

M. Quinson is co-leading a working group on the teaching of computer science in the LORIA laboratory. He served both as a program chair and a local chair for a nation-wide two-days workshop gathering about hundred people involved in the introduction of computer science in the French secondary education: university lecturers in charge of teaching to the prospective CS teachers, regional heads of the Education minister accompanying this reform and producer of teaching resources. He also served both as a program chair and local chair for a regional gathering of CS teachers of the secondary wanting to exchange their good practices. This initiative, initiated in Nancy, will spread in several other French cities in 2014.

M. Quinson participated to several events toward the popularization of computer science (either as a speaker or as a co-organizer), targeting either kids and pupils (Telecom Nancy in November), students (Inria in March), maths teachers (APMEP Lorraine in March), CS teachers (SIF-ISN day in June), or all public (Fête de la science in November).

M. Quinson serves on the editorial board of the Interstices website of Inria for the popularization of computer science.