Liste des conférences et séminaires à l’EPFL ainsi que les I&C Seminars.

The American Social Hygene Posters web site maintained by the University of Minnesota libraries seems to be back online. This database hosts posters printed by the american social institutions and army between 1910 and 1970.

Genève commence à penser au développement durable avec un projet de réaménagement de la place de Plainpalais. Lyon est cité en exemple. Même si les contraintes architecturales sont grandes, les mutations prévues ne font pas vraiment rêver et cela manque de vision… A quand un monorail??

From the Scout Report:
Drawing on information collected during the 2000 Census, this latest brief from the Census Bureau looks on language use and English-speaking ability across the US [PDF]. Authored by Hyon B. Shin and Rosalind Bruno, this 11-page report begins with a brief discussion of the questions asked about language use on the 2000 Census reporting form. The initial findings include the fact that approximately 47-million persons in the U.S. (approximately 18 percent of the total population) speak a language other than English at home. Not surprisingly, the number and percentage of people in the U.S. who spoke a language other than English at home increased between 1990 and 2000. Additionally, after English and Spanish, the languages most frequently spoken at home were Chinese, French, German, and Tagalog. The report also includes several helpful maps that detail (at the county level) the percentage of people who spoke a language at home other than English in 2000. [KMG]

I love spam’s latest evolution. It keeps my brain thinking and wondering (from that point of view it is art, isn’t it?). While my eyes stopped getting caught by the nevertheless beautifull work the pioneers like the nigerian connection (I sense a shortage in imagination lately), I am fascinated by this one:

From: “Rubin Alfaro” aag1@indiatimes.com
Subject: hi james how are you doing
keep in touch jim let me know how college is going

Who from Rubin, Jim or James is selling a penile ejector??

Discussion sympa avec Corinne dans le train pour Zürich. Son blog est porté sur les NTIC et la formation. Corinne a fait des travaux remarqués sur l’utilisation de Wikis au niveau pédagogique.

The Swiss Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) started operations on 1 March 2003 (received some CHF 6 million as seed money) at the Uni St.-Gallen devotes itself to the sustainable use of new media and learning technologies in universitiy education. In the eyes of the scientific director Dieter Euler, the strategic dimension of the new learning culture is important if a significant improvemet in the quality of teaching is to be achieved. “Seperate projects, as found in the Swiss Virtual Campus, are individually laudable and demanding. But they offer no promise of permanence if they are not anchored in the structure of the teaching institution. […] It is therefore a key task to develop it further, as well as to ensure the long-lasting impact of e-learning in universities through the creation of qualification and advice services”.

What makes an effective and meaningful public place? The Project for Public Spaces is dedicated to creating and sustaining public spaces that build communities. The site contains a number of best practices information on such places as parks, plazas, streets, public buildings, and public markets that will be of great interest to planners, civic officials, landscape architects, and anyone seeking to restore meaning and usability to a wide variety of places.

Each visit at the EPFL (see previous) offers small unique moments of contemplation.