Came here for this. Also, wtf? The video is from the INA, the French Institut National de l'Audiovisuel. It's a government-funded institution dedicated to film preservation. Their mission is to make archival footage available to the public. But no, they had to geolock it.
I'm sad at the terrible translation of the "Théorie du Bordel Ambiant" as "Theory of the brothel environment", which is quite meaningless. "Theory of the Ambient Mess" is more like it, though that misses on the purposeful use of a vulgarity ...
The article also just throws the title out there as a curiosity without mention of the content. Leaving me wondering if perhaps the content is less relevant than the "racy" title.
Calling the Eduard Rhein prize the "German equivalent of the Nobel Prize" is also a bit of a stretch. Though I guess technically it's a prize awarded by a foundation named after a person.
The website is unusable on mobile. If you scroll just a little bit, it flies 3-7 images forward. Also why does it need to be this weird images stacked on top thing, and not function like any other normale website.
Although, praise might be due to Theremin for his work on RF triggered devices. That was the prior art, which had to be taken on board without requiring everyone to carry a great seal of the united states around with them. (admittedly it was an analogue device, not digital, but same-same)
For those of you in Paris Thursday next week (October 20), there is a whole day conference on the history of the chip card held at the Bilbliothèque Nationale de France by an association of crypto experts:
Interesting. The page mentions Michel Ugon (who died in December 2021) as the "true inventor of the smart card". Where Moreno patented the memory card, Ugon invented the microprocessor card and then the SPOM, Self-Programmable One chip Memory). Chips on modern smart cards are essentially the same as the one Ugon created.
There was a lot of animosity between him and Moreno, and there were lengthy trials to invalidate Moreno's claim to the paternity of the smart card idea (allegedly stolen from Bull, Ugon's employer). Regardless of this controversy, it's sad that Michel Ugon didn't get the same recognition as Moreno, since he was the one who miniaturised the microprocessor and memory into one chip. Basically putting a computer in people's pockets decades before the iPhone. Moreno certainly worked hard to make it look as the invention of a lone (self-made) inventor, but the smart card was anything but that.
