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How Leibniz read Pascal’s Geometry: The Practice of Reading as Hybrid Hermeneutics in the Materiality of Leibniz’s Pascaliana

Between 1675 and 1676, while in Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) got privileged access to some geometric manuscripts from late Blaise Pascal’s hand. Although said manuscripts are not extant, Leibniz’s reading notes were preserved, together with ...

2022

Low emission scenario for Europe powered by lifestyle changes

Vincent Moreau, Luis Costa

Decarbonizing economic activities requires simultaneous behavioural and technological changes. At the household level, actions are straightforward, use public transit and stay off dairy and meat. The objective here is to estimate the overall climate benefi ...

2020

The information platform energyscope.ch on the energy transition scenarios

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, François Richard Vuille, Victor Codina Gironès

Switzerland like many countries plans to undertake an energy transition and the government proposes different paths for 2035 and 2050 to achieve it. However the authors of this paper felt the need for a better information of the public on the energy matter ...

2016

Swiss-EnergyScope.ch: a Platform to Widely Spread Energy Literacy and Aid Decision-Making

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Stefano Moret, Victor Codina Gironès

We develop an energy calculator within an online teaching platform to aid citizens and decision-makers understanding an energy system. The model, designed in order to be easily adapted to any energy system at national or regional scale, is presented and ap ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Complementarity of Input Devices to Achieve Knowledge Sharing in Meetings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Himanshu Verma, Flaviu Roman, Silvia Magrelli

In co-located meetings, participants create and share content to establish a common understanding. In this paper, we present a collaborative environment that enables group members to create and share content simultaneously by providing them with different ...

ACM2013

Compressor Tree Synthesis on Commercial High-Performance FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Hadi Parandeh Afshar

Compressor trees are a class of circuits that generalizes multioperand addition and the partial product reduction trees of parallel multipliers using carry-save arithmetic. Compressor trees naturally occur in many DSP applications, such as FIR filters, and ...

2011

Bio-inspired cellular machines

Fabien Vannel

Information technology has only been around for about fifty years. Although the beginnings of automatic calculation date from as early as the 17th century (W. Schickard built the first mechanical calculator in 1623), it took the invention of the transistor ...

EPFL2007

Easy Java Programming for Teaching Image Processing

Michaël Unser, Daniel Sage

We have designed a series of computer sessions build around ImageJ (a public-domain software for image analysis), as a practical complement to a two-semester course in image processing. The students are challenged with simple practical imaging problems as ...

IEEE2001

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