Je souhaite faire percevoir la dimension industrielle de l’informatique à mes étudiants et apporter, dans ce domaine, une plus-value pour l’Université à partir de mon expérience dans l’industrie.
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ean-Louis Binot holds a PhD in Applied Sciences from ULiège. His research has focused on artificial intelligence and automatic natural language processing. His doctoral thesis, which won the IBM Belgium Computer Science Prize, focused on the development of an automatic analyzer for the French language. He continued his research in the same fields at IBM Research in the USA. Back in Belgium, he moved on to a career in industrial IT, becoming R&D manager at Belgian company BIM, Operations Director at Fujitsu Consulting, and finally General Manager responsible for all European IT applications at Toyota Motor Europe. Driven by a desire to provide feedback on his industrial career, he has been contributing to the "Integrated IT Project" course for several years. He now holds a part-time position in the cutting-edge industrial field of semantic data for IT applications.
Semantic data
Jean-Louis Binot teaches the Semantic Data course at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, for students in the Master's programs in Data Science, Computer Science and Civil Engineering in Computer Science. He is also co-teacher of the course "Projet intégré d'informatique", for students in the Master of Civil Engineering in Computer Science and Computer Science programs, at the same faculty.
Jean-Louis Binot is keen to give his students an insight into the industrial dimension of IT, and to rapidly add value to the University in this field, based on his own experience in industry. " I'm also building a new course on semantic data; I hope to make this subject a permanent fixture in the Faculty's curriculum
The Why? more than the What?
" I believe that the teacher must be able to structure knowledge in order to identify its fundamentals, and pass these on to students with appropriate communication to captivate them and stimulate their curiosity. " Indeed, for Jean-Louis Binot, the Why? is just as important, if not more so, than the What? in the questioning we need to arouse in students. Finally, the teacher is there to help the student succeed, not just to set standards.
Two "coup de cœur" quotes
These are two quotations referring to the same idea, that neither human beings nor science can gather all knowledge.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious side of life", How I see the world, Albert Einstein
"There aremore things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than your philosophy dreams of",
Hamlett, acte 1 scène V, Shakespeare.
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