Gilles Bertrand Knihy

"Le rapport entre bibliothèques et lecteurs est ici abordé du point de vue de l'histoire des bibliothèques et des différents usages du livre. Cet ouvrage cartographie d'abord le temps des créations de bibliothèques dans les aires germanique, française, italienne, espagnole et ibéro-américaine au cours d'un large XVIIe siècle. Dépassant une approche statique, on y interroge tout autant les circonstances de l'acquisition et de la circulation des livres réunis en collections, que celles de leur dissolution. En se resserrant sur la France, l'Italie et l'Allemagne au XVIIIe siècle, les bibliothèques sont ensuite considérées comme lieux d'élaboration de connaissances littéraires ou scientifiques, défiant la censure et assurant la rencontre entre le monde du texte et les imaginaires du lecteur. Lecture intensive ou extensive, à voix haute ou silencieuse, par extraction ou 'marginalisation' dessinent des modalités d'accès aux savoirs mises en place au siècle des Lumières et restées en vigueur jusqu'à nos jours."--Page 4 of cover.

Images or discrete objects, to be analyzed based on digital image data, need to be represented, analyzed, transformed, recovered etc. These problems have stimulated many interesting developments in theoretical foundations of image processing. This coherent anthology presents 27 state-of-the-art surveys and research papers on digital image geometry and topology. It is based on a winter school held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in December 2000 and offers topical sections on topology, representation, geometry, multigrid convergence, and shape similarity and simplification.

These proceedings contain papers presented at the 8th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery conference, held 17-19, March 1999 at ESIEE, Marne-la- Vall ee. The domains of discrete geometry and computer imagery are closely related. Discrete geometry provides both theoretical and algorithmic models for the p- cessing, analysis and synthesis of images; in return computer imagery, in its variety of applications, constitutes a remarkable experimentational eld and is a source of challenging problems. The number of returning participants, the arrival each year of contributions from new laboratories and new researchers, as well as the quality and originality of the results have contributed to the success of the conference and are an - dication of the dynamism of this eld. The DGCI has become one of the major conferences related to this topic, including participating researchers and la- ratories from all over the world. Of the 41 papers received this year, 24 have been selected for presentation and 7 for poster sessions. In addition to these, four invited speakers have contributed to the conference. The site of Marne-la-Vall ee, just 20 min away from Paris, is particularly we- suited to hold the conference. Indeed, as a newly built city, it showcases a great amount of modern creative architecture, whose pure lines and original shapes o er a favorable context for the topic of Geometry.