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Jacques Vallée

1939 - Today

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Jacques Fabrice Vallée (French: [ʒak fabʁis vale]; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) under Douglas Engelbart. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Vallée is the 112th most popular computer scientist (down from 84th in 2019), the 4,102nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,747th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jacques Vallée ranks 112 out of 245. Before him are John Draper, Subhash Kak, Alan Cooper, Manuel Blum, Robert W. Floyd, and John Hopcroft. After him are Jan Koum, Robert Fano, Kenneth E. Iverson, Lynn Conway, Danny Hillis, and Rasmus Lerdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jacques Vallée ranks 342. Before him are Lothar Metz, Khin Nyunt, John Hopcroft, Luigi Simoni, Joseph Vilsmaier, and Adrienne Clarkson. After him are Friedel Lutz, Michael Gothard, Samih al-Qasim, Jacek Gmoch, Ernst Zündel, and Billy Cox.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Vallée ranks 4,102 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Marie (1853), Philibert of Jumièges (608), Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Sylvain Lévi (1863), and Blaise Matuidi (1987). After him are Louis Hostin (1908), Wolfgang Windgassen (1914), Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Serge Bourguignon (1928), Abel de Pujol (1785), and José Dolhem (1944).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Jacques Vallée ranks 4. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Pierre Bézier (1910), and Yann LeCun (1960). After him are Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).

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