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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Vallée has received more than 767,380 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Vallée is the 58th most popular computer scientist (down from 54th in 2019), the 3,101st most popular biography from France (down from 2,799th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 770k

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  • 51.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jacques Vallée ranks 58 out of 201. Before him are Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Gil Amelio, James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, and Juris Hartmanis. After him are Alfred Aho, Sergey Lebedev, Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, Larry Tesler, and Gary Kildall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jacques Vallée ranks 217. Before him are Angelo Sormani, Brenda Vaccaro, Nông Đức Mạnh, Bulle Ogier, Robert Darnton, and Patrick Wayne. After him are Néstor Combin, Marie-Claire Blais, Roy Buchanan, Samad Behrangi, John Tong Hon, and Sid Haig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Vallée ranks 3,101 out of 6,011. Before him are Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet (1831), Eugène Burnouf (1801), Claude Pouillet (1790), Félix Gaillard (1919), Pascal Quignard (1948), and Judith Gautier (1845). After him are Michel Berger (1947), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), François de La Rocque (1885), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Princess Marguerite of Orléans (1846), and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646).

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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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