The first edition of the CASPUR Summer School for Advanced Computing took place from August 29 to September 9th, 2005, in the ENI meeting center in the beautiful surroundings of Castel Gandolfo’s lake. The school has been invented to further…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

A specialist text is rich in technical terms and is complex from the morphological and syntactical point of view. A foreign student, and perhaps an Italian-speaking one too, does not have a fund of knowledge or sufficient independence and control…

Object of interest and philosophical speculation, sometimes examined as in contrast to the perception and knowledge, Imaginary has generated, in the history of thought, conflicting theories that have defined it, alternately, positive enhancer of knowledge or element disturbing element of…

The paper first focuses on the construct of popularisation and its various interpretations in the past few decades and briefly reviews the main studies that have been devoted to the analysis of the discourse of popularisation tracing the main conceptual…

In questo articolo viene descritto un componente del sistema Anagrafe Nazionale delle Ricerche che consente l’integrazione dei dati dei brevetti EPO esportati dal software MIMOSA dell’European Patent Office (EPO). Il componente permette una migliore conoscenza dei soggetti iscritti all’anagrafe sotto…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…

The Musée du Quai Branly features ethnological findings from four continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Today scholars and experts are still debating whether in this particular museum/institution the aesthetic concern should prevail - allowing visitors to relate to…

L'Anagrafe nazionale delle Ricerche è uno strumento per conoscere lo stato della ricerca in Italia. Il sistema informatico realizzato dal CILEA di Roma, in collaborazione e per conto del MUR (Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca), offre una serie di servizi…

Ricercatori e progettisti si avvalgono, per supportare le proprie idee e realizzare i progetti più avanzati, di codici applicativi, spesso commerciali, altre volte di carattere più accademico, che tuttavia non sono sufficienti, assai difficilmente potrebbero, ad esaurire le svariate esigenze…