Archive for the ‘Discovery’ Category

collectif_fact

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

The Grütli (the building across the plaza from my appartment) hosts collectif_fact. A group of 3 talented 3D visualization artists.

Highly Skilled Swiss Citizens Who Live Abroad

Wednesday, April 7th, 2004

A list of networking and jobs sites for highly skilled swiss professionals living abroad:

SHARE Swiss House for Advances Research and Education in Boston
http://www.creativeswitzerland.com/

Swissnex (Californian version of the Swiss House) in San Francisco
http://www.swissnex.org

SwissTalents: Network of highly skilled professionals living abroad, who are Swiss or have strong ties to Switzerland.
http://www.swisstalents.ch/

Swissbrains: Swiss-based information and service tool for highly skilled Swiss citizens who live abroad and intend to return back home
http://www.swissbrains.ch/

Telejob: Academic job exchange board
http://www.telejob.ethz.ch/

The Swiss-List: informal group of young scientists and businesses professional living in the US with close ties to Switzerland
http://www.swiss-list.com/

Devant Fabien Barthez et les Beatles sur Google

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

J’arrive devant Fabien Barthez sur Google en tapant “fabien”. (16ème sur 621,000) et devant les Beatles (The Fab 4) en tapant “fab” (40ème sur 1,590,000). Yeah!

Miniaturized Smoking Area

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

2 meters high and 45 centimeters wide. That’s the size of EPFL world’s premier miniaturized smoking area. According to Moore’s Law, size of smoking spaces will be divided by 2 every 18 monthes for the upcoming decade.

CityCat in Calvin’s City

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004


Early morning CityCat attack in Calvin’s City

Cray Maintenance

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

An heating technician from Central Services maintaning a Cray supercomputer in the Information Retrieval building.

Spam to Improve US Trade Balance with the EU

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

From siliconvalley.com about 53 percent of all electronic mail circulated within the 15 EU nations is spam. About 80 percent of those messages claim North America as their point of origin.

Ciel Mon Mardi!

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

Un nouveau trend est le revival de Ciel Mon Mardi! Des soirées construitent autour de phrases comme:

“Aveline on le voit plus, Aveline il est plus humain”
“J’ai vu la France humiliée, la France salie, … […] et ils n’ont pas connu la rafle du Vel d’Hiv […] qu’on applaudisse les jeunes”
“J’vois pas clair, j’vois pas clair…. la lumière”
“Maintenant on parle de l’affiche, mais on ne parle pas du film!! Tu comprends ça toi, hein!??”
“C’était Basile?”

L’apprentissage, Etat d’Echec Provisoir

Thursday, December 11th, 2003

Jean-Michel Meys au séminaire CRAFT: l’apprentissage se fait par une suite d’essais/erreurs donc d’états d’échec provisoirs.

Frenglispañol

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

Le Frenglispañol est la communication post-jcvd en français con strong references to english y español