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Abstract The term nomos-basileus first appears in Pindar's fragment 169. In this poem, two of Heracles' works are the " witnesses " of the action of this nomos-king " of all, men and gods ", who " commands by making just what is most violent ". This nomos …

Abstract How can software be made resistant not only to " bugs " and unintentional failures, but also to attacks and malicious use ? This is the general problem of software security, which we will introduce in this first lecture. We will then look at some …

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is Professor of Computer Science at Paris-Saclay University and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on human-computer interaction, in particular the foundations of …

Imagining and creating new interfaces that meet users' needs is a challenge, because keeping things simple but useful is complicated. Most of the great innovations, such as the spreadsheet or Apple's iPhone, didn't just offer new functionality, but rather …

Abstract The storage of digital data is becoming a challenge for mankind due to the relatively short lifespan of storage devices. Moreover, the exponential increase in the generation of digital data creates the need to constantly build new resources to …

Abstract Cosine bases are Fourier transforms that symmetrize edge conditions to define periodic signals that are not discontinuous at the edges. To encode an audio signal, it is sliced into time slices which are represented in an orthogonal cosine basis. …

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This lecture will focus on the evolution of modes of reproduction (sexual reproduction versus clonal reproduction, self-fertilization), the evolution of different sexes (males versus females, or sexual types), and the evolution of the sex chromosomes that …

Abstract This is the second generalist lecture and will address the problem of how to define life. It is approached through five of the great ideas of biology: the Cell, the Gene, Life as Chemistry, Life as Information, and Evolution by Natural Selection. …

Abstract The history of print and printing suggests that we should not reduce the history of texts to the history of books : forms, posters, leaflets and catalogs are all non-book texts likely to preserve traces of the existence of lost works. The loss of …

Abstract The lesson begins with a tribute to the cities of Ukraine, and Kiev in particular, bombed by Russian forces. Volney's pages resonate terribly with these current events. Volney's meditation on the ruins is the promise of a new work, the starting …

Abstract From Marcel Detienne's great book Les Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque (1967), we have retained the image of a kind of " premier âge " of " pensée grecque ", during which aedists, diviners, " rois de justice " and other " sages " (sophoi …

Did the Black Death send medieval societies into a frenzy of religious reason? To answer this question, we undertake a genealogy of the notion of " panique ", as a crisis of interpretation and ritual frenzy, in the historiography of religious practices …

Renos Papadopoulos Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, Director of the "Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees" as well as Honorary Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family …

Temples were conceived as the habitat of deities, who were embodied in cult statues. But these statues could be damaged , destroyed or taken captive. How did the Mesopotamians deal with such …