How to adopt an American in Paris...

How to adopt an American in Paris... my department head asked me to share this with you...
I hope you can make it on Tuesday evening... you can arrive a bit late (even at 19:30) and still mingle with the U of C students.

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Meilleurs voeux pour l'année 2015 et invitation à la soirée rencontre étudiants du mardi 20 janvier 18h a 20h30
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> De: "Arnaud Coulombel" <acoulomb@uchicago.edu>
> À: "dickman" <vera.dickman@telecom-paristech.fr>
> Envoyé: Lundi 12 Janvier 2015 15:03:41
> Objet: Meilleurs voeux pour l'année 2015 et invitation à la soirée rencontre étudiants du mardi 20 janvier à 18h00
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> Comme chaque trimestre, nous organisons la traditionnelle soirée rencontre étudiants le mardi 20 janvier à 18h00 au Centre. Nous serions très heureux que des étudiants de Telecom Paris puissent participer à cette soirée. Te serait-il possible de transmettre l’invitation ci-dessous à des étudiants et professeurs? D’avance merci pour ton aide.
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> Amitiés,
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> Arnaud
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> Invitation à la soirée rencontre étudiants/ Université de Chicago/ mardi 20 janvier à 18h00
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> Vous êtes cordialement invité(e) à la Soirée Rencontre Etudiants qui aura lieu le mardi 20 janvier à 18h00 au Centre de l'Université de Chicago à Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann dans le 13eme arrondissement (métro Ligne 14 et RER C Bibliothèque François Mitterrand). Cette soirée vous permettra de rencontrer des étudiants de l'Université de Chicago qui resteront à Paris pendant un trimestre et qui souhaitent mieux connaître la culture et la société françaises. Ils seront par ailleurs très heureux de parler avec vous de leurs études à l'Université de Chicago, et plus généralement de la vie estudiantine sur les bords du lac Michigan. Cette soirée sera accompagnée d'un cocktail.
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> Merci de confirmer votre présence par email avant le lundi 19 janvier: acoulomb@uchicago.edu
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> Nous espérons vous voir nombreux le mardi 20 janvier au Centre de l'Université de Chicago à Paris.
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> Arnaud Coulombel
> Université de Chicago. Centre à Paris
> Responsable des partenariats
> Tel : 01 53 94 78 94
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Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn | Talk Video | TED.com

Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn | Talk Video | TED.com:

Deep Learning... hear all about it... and here and here... see below!

(And from my former student Antoine B:

"Just for information, I worked in the deep learning community which is an area of the machine learning field. In a scientific conference in Montreal last December, all the professors that are working together to make this science progress were gathered in this image, from left to right : - Yann lecun : head of Facebook's new Artificial Intelligence laboratory since 08\14 (an article here) and professor at NYU,

 - Geoffrey Hinton : work at Google since 03\13 (an article here) and University of Toronto,

 - Yoshu Bengio : my supervisor at Udem (Université de Montreal) during my internship, the only one that is still entirely dedicated to academic,

 - Andrew Ng :  Chief Scientist at Baidu (the chinese google) Research in Silicon Valley since 07\14 (an article here), and professor at Standford University.)  )

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Story of The Bass (THE INSTRUMENTALS - Episode 4) - YouTube

Story of The Bass (THE INSTRUMENTALS - Episode 4) - YouTube:

I think the musicians in our class might enjoy this.  What do you think?









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Did You Know 2014 - YouTube

Did You Know 2014 - YouTube:



some interesting thoughts for the end of 2014...

does anything surprise you here?

happy and merry!

james



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Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself | Talk Video | TED.com

A short video about what is normal and what is not normal...
Not only thinking outside the box... but being outside the box!

see (most of) you tomorrow, 

happy holidays!

james



Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself | Talk Video | TED.com:



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Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) | Talk Video | TED.com

Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) | Talk Video | TED.com:

We looked at this at the end of our class... perhaps you'd like to re-watch and collect some expressions.

 Have a good week!  Any comments?

james

"Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

Marco Tempest
Techno-illusionist
A magician and illusionist for the 21st century, Marco Tempest blends cutting-edge technology with the flair and showmanship of Houdini."

Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly | Talk Video | TED.com

"A stitch in time saves nine!"

have a good weekend.

I thought you might enjoy this Tedtalk!

james





Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly | Talk Video | TED.com: "Forget stitches — there's a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina talks about his invention — a medical gel that can instantly stop traumatic bleeding without the need to apply pressure. (Contains medical images.)"



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Presentation Zen: 10 tips for improving your presentations & speeches

Presentation Zen: 10 tips for improving your presentations & speeches:



You might know about Garr Reynolds website already but here's a recent post that I find interesting!

have a good weekend! What do you think?

james



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How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party (Christmas)

What we looked at in class today....

How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party (Christmas):



"HOW TO BEHAVE AT THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY
VideoJug presents a guide on how to survive that inevitable Christmas ritual of the office party. We show you how to behave at the office Christmas party."

office christmas party

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Emily Balcetis Why some people find exercise harder than others | Talk Video | TED.com

Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others

This Tedtalk focuses on  the power of our view of the world. Emily gave us some examples about the image different people saw in different ways. And one of the interesting use is to help us to exercise more efficiently! It's very interesting because we need not do anything else to make the exercise more efficiently!
I think it will be useful for someone struggling to lose weight...

Aimee Mullins: My 12 pairs of legs | Talk Video | TED.com

Aimee Mullins: My 12 pairs of legs | Talk Video | TED.com:



We spoke of this in today's class...  12 legs and I think she's beautiful...



What do you think? Do you agree?



Perhaps there are other talks by Aimée Mullins that you'd like to watch.



Everyone that was absent today should post a Tedtalk on our Jade Mountain!

And for all your exams...  Break a leg! or even 12 legs!



see you next week

James







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A 22 year-old fracture of a Shell.

A 22 year-old fracture of a Shell.

Do you know Bash ?

Short for “Bourne-Again Shell”, it's a piece of software that was coded by Brian J. Fox in 1987. It is the default command processIt is also used by about seventy percent of the Internet servers. It is an open-source program that has been maintained by an unpaid volunteer, named Chet Ramney, for the last 22 years.

or and interpreter of several Unix systems (the GNU/Linux systems for example) and of the Macintosh operating systems.

Last September, Chet Ramney was contacted by an open source community member, named Stephane Chazelas, about a potentially dangerous bug. Working together with Ramney and other people working on open-source security, he managed to make a patch fixing the bug in several hours. Then they tried to contact the major software makers without tipping off hackers.

But as soon as the bug was reported, security researchers detected a widespread scanning activity on the Internet, by both people calling themselves white hat hackers, examining systems to find the flaws and correct them, and people thought to be cyber criminals. So security researchers fear that hackers will quickly find the flaw and write a program that can use it. They recommended that the users stay abreast of the updates proposed by software makers, so that they get the patch fixing the bug in Bash before someone ill-willed tries to take advantage of it.

Indeed, “Shellshock”, that's the name of the bug, is much more dangerous than “Heartbleed”, a bug that was discovered a short time ago, and to which journalists often refer while speaking about Shellshock. While cyber-criminals were only able to do things of relatively minor importance like stealing passwords in Internet servers with Heartbleed, Shellshock allows them to take total control of a machine.

Nevertheless, Internet severs are much more vulnerable than common users to attacks using this flaw. Indeed, hackers have to know which network the user is connected to and have access to this network, while the Internet servers are always connected to the Internet and their localization is known.

As you may guess, the problem posed by Heartbleed and Shellshock is part of a bigger one which is the increase of software complexity. Every day, more and more pieces of software are built, which use themselves previously programmed software to work. So, if there is a flaw in one of the old pieces of software, it's not only the old ones but also the new ones that will be vulnerable to hackers.

As a consequence, after the Heartbleed flaw was discovered last spring, the Linux Foundation worked with some major companies like Amazon, Apple and Google on a project named Core Infrastructure Initiative. Its goal is to identify and fund core pieces of open-source infrastructure, so that these kind of problems could be detected and solved more quickly and efficiently.

Thanksgiving clips from FRIENDS - YouTube

Thanksgiving clips from FRIENDS - YouTube:



We'll have to look at parts of this today!



see you later

james



(we should have two presentations as well...)



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[TED Talks] Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist

I really like TED Talks because there are a lot of different subjects.

Today, I have chosen something very particular, the story of the son of a terrorist. His childhood was very hard and he suffered from bullies...

Now, he has chosen the way of peace and want to help other people. I think, he is very courageous to say to the world that he is the son of a murderer.

I believe he is a strong man too. It's very hard for him to go against the way of his father. Overall his father tried to recruit him in the extremist group.

I only have one question, is it really possible to hide the fact that you are a dangerous terrorist in action to the rest of your family ...

My first Halloween in Europe

Hello everyone,

   There is a four-days vacation of Halloween for me, so I spent a trip to Venice, Italy! Venice is very very beautiful, all the roads of the city is river! It's fantastic to take a bus on the river!
   During the Halloween, I was walking on the street in Venice, this is the first Halloween for me because in China there is not such a festival, I saw many groups of children with special clothes and things going into shops and shouted:"Trick or treat!!!" Then the shop assistant would throw many candies like raining! Even when I bought something in the shop, the shop assistant gave me a candy and tell me it's the Halloween...
   It's very interesting for me and I want to know more about western festival.