Jacques Vallée
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.
Jacques Vallée | |
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| Born | Jacques Fabrice Vallée September 24, 1939 Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France |
| Education | University of Paris (BS) University of Lille Nord de France (MS) Northwestern University (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Venture capitalist, computer scientist, engineer, author, ufologist |
| Spouse |
Janine Saley (died 2010) |
| Children | 2 |
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.
Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Vallée was first noted for his defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.