About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Alain Colmerauer, Alain Fournier, Bernard Chazelle, Bertrand du Castel, Bertrand Meyer, Claude Lemarechal, Colette Rolland, Damien Doligez, Elie Bursztein, Fabrice Bellard, Fokko du Cloux, Francois Vernadat, Gerard Berry, Gerard Huet, Geraud Senizergues, Gilles Kahn, Gilles Motet, Henri Gouraud (computer scientist), Jacques Vallee, Jean-Marc Jezequel, Jean-Marie Hullot, Jean-Raymond Abrial, Jean Ichbiah, Jean Kuntzmann, Jean Paoli, Joseph Sifakis, Leon Bottou, Louis Monier, Louis Pouzin, Marc Peyrade, Maurice Nivat, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Nicolas Sadirac, Olivier Danvy, Patrick Cousot, Philippe Flajolet, Philippe Gautier, Remi Despres, Rodnay Zaks, Sam Hocevar, Serge Vaudenay, Thierry Coquand, Xavier Leroy, Yann LeCun. Excerpt: Jacques Fabrice Vallee (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California. In mainstream science, Vallee is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI International in creating ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallee is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis. Vallee was born in Pontoise, France. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne, followed by his Master of Science in astrophysics from the University of Lille. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first science-fiction novel in French. He moved to the United States in 1962 and began working in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, at whose MacDonald Observatory he worked on NASA's first project making a detailed informational map of Mars. In 1967, Vallee received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. While at the Institute for the Future from 1972 to 1976 he was a principal investigator on the large NSF project for computer networking, which developed one of the first conferencing systems, Planning Network (PLANET), on the ARPANET many years before the Internet was formed. He has also served on the National Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan College of Engineering and was involved in early work on artificial intelligence. Vallee has authored four books on high technology, including Computer Message Systems, Electronic Meetings, The Network Revolution, and The Heart of the Internet. Along with his mentor, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Vallee carefully studied the phe
