Stanford English and comparative literature Prof. Ramón Saldívar receives a medal for his exploration of identity along the border separating the United States and Mexico.
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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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On marriage
In «Tell me a story», Roger Schank suggests that people who marry too early will not have a happy life. How “early” is “early” ?
Ubuntu is an operating system based on Linux named after a South African philosophical concept : “I am what I am because of who we all are”.
Thank you Arnold for paying tribute to my country which, as you say, “one can barely find on a map”…
Good luck and long life to the R20.
What world leaders gathered in Copenhagen in 2009 could not achieve might be accomplished by you, and by all of us, by paying more attention to the impact we have on the environment in our daily actions.
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Space Invaders
Watch out, these aliens want you to stop thinking.
Try to find them in the streets around the world.
Ils sont parmi nous…
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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…
The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, established in 1945 by Général de Gaulle. Its mission : to become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future.
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Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov was first the pseudonym of an avant-garde soviet filmmaker, and then became the name of a group created by Jean-Luc Godard in the 1970s during his revolutionary period.
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36 situations dramatiques
Before Propp did for Russian folktales and Buñuel for Hollywood movies, Frenchman Georges Polti proposed a theory in 1916 that for each story or scenario there exist 36 basic dramatic situations.