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Titanic

Let’s celebrate human failure & megalomania !
Happy Birthday to the ship that God Himself could not sink…

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RoboCup

In the history of artificial intelligence and robotics, the year 1997 will be remembered as a turning point.

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Kodak

R.I.P. Kodak (b. 1881, † January 19th, 2012) –
the death of celluloid, which will remain a rarity
and oddity only used by a handful of experimental
artists…

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CityEngine

CityEngine is an incredible 3D tool for VFX supervisors or urban designers (SF).

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Interactive video New technologies

Occupy Flash

Rid the world of the obsolete Flash technology !
Flash est un environnement de programmation interactive très vieux jeu qui s’est imposé comme un standard de facto pour le web, car c’était un des premiers langages permettant l’affichage de dessins vectoriels dans les navigateurs. It was initially called FutureSplash Animator. It was a great idea, and its development in 1995 coincided with the beginning of the web. But 15 years & 2 M&A laters, it clearly has reached the status of an old dictatorship like Khaddafi’s… We might not get rid of cars in a day, but maybe we can make the web a more progressive space by developing open standards for interactive animation & video on the internet.

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Tribute to Steve Jobs

Slideshow of his most important products.

I discovered the «Inside Macintosh» series when I was a teenager, and it changed my view on programming, on how to design user-friendly graphical user interfaces, and how to follow guidelines to make applications that would be compatible with the Apple philosophy.

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Cinema New technologies

Artanim

Brand new motion-capture studio in Geneva, located next to Actua Films and PointProd.

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New technologies Politics

Ni Dieu ni Maître

A recent conference by USC University Professor Manuel Castells on new communication technologies and the sociology of networks, in Paris, available here.

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New technologies Politics Science

Youri Gagarine

Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into space, by Youri Gagarine, during the Vostok 1 mission, in the context of the Soviet space program. Gagarine will become an international celebrity and become a Hero of the Soviet union.

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innorobo

Robotics summit (conference, workshops, expo) in Lyon this week. I discovered NAO, the humanoid robot by Aldebaran, and Urbi, the Robotics OS developed by Gostai.