David Roche, Inglourious Basterds de Quentin Tarantino

History as Blockbuster (The Influence of Art and Media Discourse on the Formation of Cultural Memory)

The decision of director Quentin Tarantino to kill Adolf Hitler in his film Inglorious Basterds has sparked criticism for alleged forgery of history. However, when studying the archives of the Jewish ghetto in Poland, Swedish writer Steve SemSendberg noted that fiction has started with the preservation of the first document. Had the Boston bomber not appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone m...

Georges GARDARIN Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

In memoriam - Affonso Berardinelli Tarantino

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132014000500001 from various Brazilian states (all of whom were dear friends of Tarantino’s) and had the striking characteristic of being thorough and profound without ever abandoning a practical discourse. Tarantino used to say that he had to be able to communicate with physicians anywhere in Brazil, even in the most remote parts of the country. His book (whic...

University of Huddersfield Repository Moore , David , Mair , Quentin and Wakefield , Jonathan P . Ambisonic Audio System Optimization Using a HPC Cluster

This paper investigates the use of the Glasgow Caledonian University VOTER HPC cluster for optimizing Ambisonic surround sound decoders. The cluster was used to run an exhaustive search coded using MPI C/C++ in order to obtain an optimal set of Ambisonic decoder parameters for a fixed resolution. The execution time of running this problem on the cluster compares favorably to work carried out on...

Quentin Jones and Sheizaf Rafaeli

This paper examines the importance of ‘discourse architecture’ and ‘community’ to the maintenance and growth of virtual publics. ‘Virtual publics’ are computer mediated discourse spaces created by using various technologies including email, the USENET, web based bulletin boards, IRC, MUDS, etc. It is argued that the over-emphasis to date on ‘community’ has discouraged systemic analysis of colla...