Histoire mondiale du bonheur

Démesures. Une histoire du drone des 1960 à nos jours

La musique, cette forme rythmique par excellence, peut-elle remettre le rythme en question ? Peut-elle même être pensée... sans le rythme ? Christophe Levaux s’intéresse à une page oubliée de l'histoire musicale, à savoir le drone. Ce style musical non-métrique a été initié par LaMonte Young, qui voulait produire un son de drone (bourdon) ininterrompu, une note sans fin, sans rythme ! Tout d'ab...

Histoire du Sida: début et origine d'une pandémie actuelle

strains of nineteenth-century sectarian science. Although critical of orthodox science in this period, nonetheless they have implicitly drawn a model from late twentieth-century science-as a detached, professionalized undertaking-that was neither feasible nor relevant in this context. Most sectarians were practitioners rather than intellectual system-builders, and many sought fame, fortune and ...

Le droit du numérique : une histoire à préserver

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an histor...

Du rififi dans la pop music: une histoire oubliee du droit d'auteur

Digital Radio Mondiale

Digital Radio Mondiale is a system which promises to re-invigorate the use of the broadcasting bands below 30 MHz. It offers a dramatic improvement in audio quality, not only improving the audio bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio, but also countering the effects of selective fading and audible interference from other stations. It is also designed to support various features that will make rece...