In short the man is no shortage of ideas

Eminent pataphysician and distinguished shadokologue, Gérard Berry wants to lay the groundwork for a new science, the déformatique, knowledge readily, if there is no solution, it is that there is no problem, and finally proposes to enrich the nomenclature of the very respectable flag of weights and measures of two new interesting units: the "femtopoil" (10-15 hairs) and "pétapoil" (1015 hairs). In short, the man is no shortage of ideas. Or humour. But this sympathetic side and stripper character does not prevent it from be taken very seriously by all world computing account top. Tonight, he will deliver to the College of France his inaugural lecture on the theme: "Think, modelling and control the computing", lesson in which it will provide broad outline the four stages in the evolution of this concept since the pioneers Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing to the most recent insights on what it calls "diffuse calculation." It is the second time this multi-skilled and General engineer of Mines of sixty years is thus given a Chair in this high place of French knowledge. Last year, he taught a course entitled "why and how the world is becoming" digital in the Chair of innovation technology-Liliane Bettencourt. The success was such that Inria (national Institute of research in computer science and control), where he is Director of research, has led to the creation of an annual Chair especially dedicated to the computer. Gérard Berry is the first owner.

Inventor of Esterel

Nothing polite, or PhD in Professor there. He loves as much (if not more) teach computer science to children from six years to his scientific peers. He loves also provide knowledge on the radio, where he est regularly invited, and flirts with the idea to write a third book (after two reprints of his course at the College of France), that he entitled "lessons of thing". Go to the meeting to a wide audience, not to lock in his ivory tower are in a constant concern. Researcher, he is never looked top industrialists, on the contrary. Consultant in several of them, Dassault, Intel and Schneider Electric including, he himself endorsed the costume of VRP luxury to the Esterel Technologies company, founded in 1999 by an another X-Mines, Eric Bantégnie. This company specialized in embedded software for operating the so-called "critical" systems (i.e. cannot afford to fail) has today some 175 customers in avionics, the rail, nuclear and heavy industries. Former scientific society Director, Gérard Berry is the inventor of its main tool, programming language Esterel it developed from the beginning of the 1980s in the laboratory of the Mines of Sophia-Antipolis, where he had started in 1977. Intel with Pentium in the electronic field, Dassault with burst in aviation, were among the first to use this tool.

Today, the child of the Gers has more function in Esterel Technologies, but its use of the time is busy. Member of the Academy of sciences since 2002, he became in 2005 delegate of the inter-section of applications of science. Recently, he chairs the research of the Inria evaluation commission. Examples of activities that he leave little time to take advantage of the "Bar is open", name of the boat has condominiums with a dozen of buddies. But it is not in him that you will learn that "it is better pumping hard, even though it nothing happens, that risk that happens something worse by not pumping".