In the shadow of the pioneers of the French aluminum industry, Charles Combes emerges as a key figure. A mining engineer and professor of electrochemistry, he played a major role in the early days of electrolytic aluminum by founding the Société Française de…...
The journal "La Vie Urbaine," edited by historian and urban planner Pierre Lavedan, profoundly influenced the intellectual landscape of urban planning in France in the 20th century. Founded in 1919, this publication has become an essential reference for urban planning research...
Discover the fascinating world of Oulipo through its archives, preserved and digitized by the National Library of France. A look back at the history of this unique literary movement and one of its emblematic figures, Paul Fournel. The Ouvroir de littérature potentiel,…...
A doctor of political science and lecturer at the University of Nantes, André Vitalis sheds light on the complex world of computing through his book "Computers, Power and Freedoms," published in 1988. With a preface by Jacques Ellul, this work reveals the paradoxes of a society...
In January 1794, the first issue of the "Journal Polytechnique" or "Bulletin du Travail Fait à l'École Centrale des Travaux Publics" was published, published by the Council of Instruction and Administration of this innovative institution. This article delves into the pages of this...
In its 1995 reference work, "The Evaluation of Public Policies and the Concept of Beneficiaries," the Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions (CREDOC), under the direction of Guy Poquet, explores the delicate balance...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key discipline, influencing not only AI researchers but also psychologists. Gérard Tisseau's 1996 book "Artificial Intelligence: Problems and Methods" with a preface by Jacques Pitrat offers...
The 23rd Symposium of the French-Speaking Scientific Psychology Association, held in Rome in 1991, was a key moment in the exploration of the links between natural and artificial intelligence. Under the enlightened direction of Jean-François Le…...
The Savoy Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres, and Arts, through its seventh series of Memoirs, offers us an illuminating look at the evolution of computing and artificial intelligence. Written by the erudite Jean-Pierre Duport-Rosan, the treatise explores the essence...
Jacques Pitrat, born in February 1934 and deceased in October 2019, remains one of the French pioneers of symbolic artificial intelligence. A general engineer of the Armaments, a graduate of the École Polytechnique, he paved the way for AI in France by developing…...
