France’s Secretary for Education and Research Valerie Pecresse Visits Mobile Millennium

Valerie Pecresse, Secretary of Education and Research, and a member of Nicolas Sarkozy’s Government in France, visited UC Berkeley on Thursday, April 16, 2009 with a delegation that included members from her office, the General Consulate in San Francisco, and the French Embassy in Washington. She was given a demo of Mobile Millennium, the new traffic information system jointly developed by Nokia/Navteq and UC Berkeley, under the umbrella of the California and US Departments of Transportation.

Secretary Pecresse visited the new CITRIS Tech Museum in Sutardja Dai Hall, where CEE Ph.D. students, Christian Claudel and Aude Hofleitner, demonstrated the Mobile Millennium technology for her. She was then offered a Nokia phone in commemoration of her visit.

Incoming Ph.D. student Aude Hofleitner demonstrates Mobile Millennium arterial traffic information system to Secretary Pecresse.

Ph.D. student Christian Claudel demonstrates Mobile Millennium to Secretary Pecresse on the demonstration phone offered to her by the Mobile Millennium team.