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Software security : what role can programming languages play?
Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science
Software security : what role can programming languages play?
Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science
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How can software resist attacks and malicious use ? This is the general problem of software security, and a vast one at that, since security flaws are so many and varied, from user manipulation to the observation and disruption of computer circuitry, to …
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Mosaic : Preparations for a banquet, Carthage, 180-190 A.D. The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the mandate of the Roman governor from his arrival in the province …
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Olives and olive oil were among the most important agricultural products of antiquity. They were the subject of domestic or artisanal production, commercial trade, tribute levies and public distribution. Following on from the lectures given in 2017-2018, …
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Nils P. Heeßel
The exclusivity of knowledge
Nils P. Heeßel
The exclusivity of knowledge
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Abstract A very important factor in the emergence of scholarship was to prohibit access to knowledge acquired by unauthorized persons, and to prevent the number of scholars from growing too large. This lecture will outline how the transmission of …
11:30 to 12:30
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Myths are transformed, modified and revised according to the needs of time and place, but in essence a myth remains unchanged, for it is not the fruit of a pure elucubration of the human imagination, but a concrete manifestation of certain primordial …
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Orhan Pamuk
Creativity and Control
Orhan Pamuk
Creativity and Control
Guest lecturer
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Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . In this series of four lectures, Orhan Pamuk will seek to combine …
17:30 to 18:30
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Wordcloud illustration of meritocracy …
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Edda Vardanyan
The Armenian version of the Roman d'Alexandre : Christianizing an ancient ruler
Edda Vardanyan
The Armenian version of the Roman d'Alexandre : Christianizing an ancient ruler
Guest lecturer
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Abstract From the 14th century onwards, the Roman d'Alexandre underwent considerable metamorphosis, with the aim of changing the image of the conqueror into a veritable " mirror of princes ". Appendices were added, transforming the novel of a pagan …
14:00 to 15:00
Interacting with the computer
Wendy Mackay, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies
Interacting with the computer
Wendy Mackay, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies
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The first part presents the fundamental principles of human-computer interaction. The first lesson discusses the main readings from research on human capabilities, with examples that illustrate their contribution to the design of interactive technologies. …
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Mosaic: Preparations for a banquet, Carthage, 180-190 A.D. The Ancients had a different idea of economics than we do: it was part of philosophy, particularly ethics. It was the art of the "good use of wealth": "good", because economics, as the …
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Genetic Admixture Presentation In this colloquium, we will use theoretical models and empirical data to examine the extent of interbreeding in humans and other species. In particular, we'll look at how interbreeding between human populations, or between …
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Presentation Although France is an exception among European countries in the absence of an individual genius to represent it on a national scale - Shakespeare for England, Dante for Italy or Goethe for Germany - the question of genius is nonetheless a …
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Abstract Very early on, interesting explanations in epics and myths showed how scholars in the Ancient East imagined the emergence of " knowledge of the world " and cultural techniques. In the first millennium BC, numerous texts show how scholars placed …
11:30 to 12:30
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Greenland © Edouard Bard. The global warming of the last century needs to be placed in a broader temporal context in order to determine its singularity and distinguish the underlying causes, both natural and anthropogenic. Climate variations from the end …
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Orhan Pamuk
Inventing and Following a Character
Orhan Pamuk
Inventing and Following a Character
Guest lecturer
Event
Orhan Pamuk, world-renowned writer and essayist, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx . In this series of four lectures, Orhan Pamuk will seek to combine …
17:30 to 18:30
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10:30 to 11:30
Translation of texts from the story of Jacob
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Translation of texts from the story of Jacob
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew essential. …
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The Bible's oldest epic : The Story of Jacob
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
The Bible's oldest epic : The Story of Jacob
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
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Alexandre-Louis Leloir, Jacob's struggle with the angel (1865), Clermont-Ferrand, Musée d'art Roger-Quillot …
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