Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Public lectures by Prof. Bruno Bachimont

Professor Bruno Bachimont will be giving public lectures on December 10 and 11, 2009. Prof. Bachimont has been invited by the French Embassy in India, in the framework of their programme "Bonjour French Science".

Bruno Bachimont is Scientific advisor of the Department of Research and Innovation at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (France’s legal deposit institution for all television and radio material) as well as Professor at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne where he teaches computer science, logics and philosophy. A graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Prof. Bachimont received a PhD in Computer Science from the Paris 6 University in 1990 as well as a PhD in Philosophy from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1996.

Prof. Bachimont has published widely in the fields of artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems, indexation, and document engineering and is the author of “knowledge and content engineering : Documents and ontologies” (in french, Paris: Hermès, 1994 2nd ed).

Prof. Bachimont is currently involved in projects related to digital preservation, audiovisual/multimedia indexing, using formalisms and theories drawn from the knowledge representation paradigm (ontologies, conceptual graphs, description logic), the document paradigm (XML, XML-Schema, MPEG-7) and the audiovisual world. The projects are undertaken within a general conceptual framework which borrows from Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler’s work on the philosophy of knowledge and writing to explore the mutual influence of mind and technique, of thinking and intellectual technologies.

The talk on Dec. 10 will be hosted collaboratively by the Centre for Internet and Society and the Centre for Contemporary Studies at IISc
Date: December 10, 2009 (Thursday)
Time : 4pm to 6pm
Topic: 'Preserving Digital Memories: A Patrimonial Approach'
Venue: Centre for Internet and Society (No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers, 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore 52)

The talk on Dec. 11 will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
Date: December 11, 2009 (Friday)
Time : 11am to 1pm
Topic: 'Formal Signs and Numerical Computation'
The talk will be followed by a discussion on the integration of Natural and Human Science, and technology.
Venue: Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (No 827, 29th Main, Poornaprajna HBCS Layout Uttarahalli, Bangalore 61)

No comments:

Post a Comment