COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Vallée has received more than 872,975 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jacques Vallée is the 84th most popular computer scientist (down from 58th in 2019), the 3,748th most popular biography from France (down from 3,090th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 57.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jacques Vallée ranks 84 out of 245. Before him are Kathleen Antonelli, Joseph Sifakis, Radia Perlman, Ruth Teitelbaum, Gil Amelio, and Marlyn Meltzer. After him are Eugene Garfield, Larry Tesler, Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, Ivar Jacobson, and Mary Kenneth Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jacques Vallée ranks 287. Before him are Khin Nyunt, Oʻtkir Sultonov, José Emilio Pacheco, Samad Behrangi, Chögyam Trungpa, and Ernesto Castano. After him are Friedel Lutz, Ron Atkinson, Tetsuya Chiba, John Neumeier, Alexandra Stewart, and Gösta Ekman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Vallée ranks 3,748 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Diémer (1843), Joseph-François Michaud (1767), Jules Bianchi (1989), Philippe Étancelin (1896), Clémence Poésy (1982), and Jean Mouton (1459). After him are Valérie Trierweiler (1965), Charles Simon Favart (1710), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Edmond Delfour (1907), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), and Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Jacques Vallée ranks 3. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), and Pierre Bézier (1910). After him are Yann LeCun (1960), Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).

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