On May 16, the SCILAB Consortium was launched with an initial meeting of its members under the chairmanship of Professor Alain Bensoussan, former chairman of INRIA, CNES and Council of ESA. INRIA committed to finance 5 people in the team. In addition to the development of SCILAB, the team will promote SCILAB and animate and federate the community of contributors. It is managed by the chief technical officer of the consortium and will be eventually composed of 14 members. The dedicated team has already been created as a 'Development Project-Team' at INRIA-Rocquencourt. to provide resources for a dedicated team for the development of SCILAB.to group the community of users to turn SCILAB into quality software for operational use as well in industry as in education and research.So SCILAB will be a privileged link between companies and new scientific trends and will rely on a large community of contributors. to group the community of developers to turn SCILAB into a platform to integrate all scientific advances in scientific computations, simulation and automatic control.The main objectives of SCILAB Consortium are: A scientific committee and a steering committee composed of elected Consortium members will decide on the directions for new developments and play the role of SCILAB architect. Members of the Consortium can contribute to the evolution of SCILAB based on new needs. The Consortium will guarantee the quality and perpetuation of the software and turn SCILAB into worldwide reference software in academia and industry. To face this success, INRIA proposed to create a Consortium to group academic and industrial members all over the world. Since 2002 an annual SCILAB contest is organized in China. Workshops and lessons took place in India, Africa and China. Books and articles already exist in French, English and Chinese. Moreover, SCILAB is used all over the world. This success is mainly due to the fact that, by integrating numerous contributions, SCILAB offers tools pertaining to scientific computing (simulation, graphics, modelling, control, etc) that are not only of interest to teachers and researchers, but also increasingly of interest to persons who work in industrial sectors such as the automotive industry, aerospace, chemistry, finance, etc. Today there are more than 10,000 monthly downloads of SCILAB software from SCILAB web site. It comes with source code, on-line help and English user manuals. SCILAB works on most UNIX systems including Linux and on Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP.
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