Francois Arlabosse, Paris, France
Francois Arlabosse, French, diplomed engineer electronic and nuclear physic from E.N.S.E.M. Nancy, graduated in mathematics from the university of Nancy and Paris, followed by a long and distinguished career in artificial intelligence and was instrumental in forming Framentec- Cognitech a division of Framatome when Teknowledge spinoff of Stanford University,
USA formed a joint venture with Framatome. Framatome recently changed it's name to Areva NP, and is a world leader in the design and construction of nuclear power plants, and the supply of fuel, maintenance and modernisation services. Francois was a technical adviser to the main board.
Amongst the many European ESPRIT projects he has contributed to are ESPRIT P387 'KRITIC' Knowledge Representation and Inference Techniques in Industrial Control, , ESPRIT I Project 1592 'TAO' A Therapy Adviser for Oncology, ESPRIT II Project 2043 'MARIE', Mobile Autonomous Robot in an Industrial Environment, ESPRIT II Project 2256 'ARCHON' a general purpose multi-agent system architecture for industrial applications and ESPRIT II Project 2152 ‘VIEWS’ a project for the intelligent evalution of computer aided vision of outdoors scenes .
Francois Arlabosse was appointed chair of a commitee of ERUDIT supported by the European Commission DG III Industry - Esprit Programme as a Network of Excellence. Francois is also an external assessor for technology projects supported by the European Union, the French and Canadian governments.