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Abstract The security of the Web relies on cryptographic protocols, i.e. distributed programs that use cryptography to protect sensitive data against subtle attacks from powerful adversaries that fully control the network. However, despite decades of …

Abstract The phrase hiera kai hosia is found mainly in official Athenian documentation, and also forms part of the definition of citizenship : to be a citizen means, among other things, " to take part in hiera and hosia  ". Such a formula could be …

Abstract The time it takes a program or its elementary operations to execute reveals a great deal about the data it manipulates. Using the RSA signature as an example, we'll see how to attack software by observing its execution times, and how to counter …

Laurence Nigay Laurence Nigay is a professor at Grenoble-Alpes University and the Institut Universitaire de France (junior 2004-09, senior 2019-24). She heads the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering research team at the Grenoble Computer Science …

Humans use a variety of modalities to communicate, including speech, gesture, facial expression and body movement. This lesson traces the history of interactive systems that go beyond the classic input-output of mouse, keyboard and screen, to work that …

Abstract The contrast between the genres of fiction and nonfiction-between, for example, novels, short stories and fiction films on the one hand, and histories, biographies and documentaries on the other-is often reduced to a distinction between fiction …

Jérôme Chave Jérôme Chave is CNRS research director, head of the Evolution and Biological Diversity unit in Toulouse, and head of the Centre d'étude de la biodiversité amazonienne (French Guiana) laboratory of excellence. Drawing on a vast network of …

This lecture will focus on the study of interactions between species and the distribution of species across the planet, with the major hypotheses of the sciences of ecology to explain them. Documents and media Download …

Abstract What to do with lost works ? A typology of lost works helps answer this question. There are nine types of lost works. 1. Works of which all trace and memory are lost : these are potential works, which are nothing more than " promises ", as …

In the introduction to the first day of the Decameron , two pigs are reported to have been contaminated by the rags of a plague victim . Based on a micro-reading of this scene, the lecture proposes a political anthropology of the metamorphoses and …

Circulation of concepts in the media and social networks " If the cultural battle is possible " - how the radical right contaminates public debate Today's media agenda seems to be dictated by themes dear to the radical right: security, immigration, …

Shaul Bassi Shaul Bassi is Professor of English Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he directs the Master's Degree in Environmental Humanities. His publications include a critical edition of Othello (Marsilio 2009), Visions of Venice in …

This civilization, which seems so far removed from our own, is nonetheless at its origin... We will try to identify the elements inherited from Mesopotamia that still structure our own civilization, starting with certain elements of our timekeeping …