Jacques F Vallee
Jacques F. Vallee is a principal at Documatica Financial, LLC and a diversified investor with a passion for technology startups in space development, medical equipment and information management. He earned a Bachelors Degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne, a Masters Degree in astrophysics from Lille University and a PhD in Computer Science /AI from Northwestern University (1967).
Based in Silicon Valley, Jacques has served as a founder and general partner in five venture funds, including NASA's "Red Planet Capital". Among the companies he spearheaded, fourteen achieved IPOs, notably Electronics for Imaging, Accuray Systems (developers of the "Cyberknife" for cancer surgery), NeoPhotonics (Nanotechnology for optical networks), Mercury Interactive, P-Com, Isocor, Regeneration Technologies, Harmonic Lightwaves, Ixys, Integrated Packaging, E.Piphany, Sangstat Medical, Com21 and Synaptic Pharmaceuticals, specialized in neurotransmitter biology. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of many of these firms.
Other companies financed by Jacques (in particular, HandyLab that produced an instrument recognized as "transformative for oncology") were successfully acquired by Becton-Dickinson, Intel, Lucent, AOL, Cisco, Wilson Greatbatch and Intuitive Surgical.
In his early career Jacques worked at Paris Observatory and at the astronomy department of the University of Texas in Austin, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of planet Mars. Moving to California after management positions with Shell and RCA, he implemented (with Jake Feinler) the first Network Information Center on the Arpanet and later served as a principal investigator for DARPA and NSF. Jacques has published several textbooks about computer networking and has maintained a long-term interest in unidentified flying objects, currently (2018) serving on the expert committee of the French CNES tasked with studying such reports. He received the Jules Verne Prize for his first science-fiction novel (in French). He resides between San Francisco and Paris. He has two children and three grandchildren.
Address: PO Box 641650, San Francisco, CA. 94164
Based in Silicon Valley, Jacques has served as a founder and general partner in five venture funds, including NASA's "Red Planet Capital". Among the companies he spearheaded, fourteen achieved IPOs, notably Electronics for Imaging, Accuray Systems (developers of the "Cyberknife" for cancer surgery), NeoPhotonics (Nanotechnology for optical networks), Mercury Interactive, P-Com, Isocor, Regeneration Technologies, Harmonic Lightwaves, Ixys, Integrated Packaging, E.Piphany, Sangstat Medical, Com21 and Synaptic Pharmaceuticals, specialized in neurotransmitter biology. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of many of these firms.
Other companies financed by Jacques (in particular, HandyLab that produced an instrument recognized as "transformative for oncology") were successfully acquired by Becton-Dickinson, Intel, Lucent, AOL, Cisco, Wilson Greatbatch and Intuitive Surgical.
In his early career Jacques worked at Paris Observatory and at the astronomy department of the University of Texas in Austin, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of planet Mars. Moving to California after management positions with Shell and RCA, he implemented (with Jake Feinler) the first Network Information Center on the Arpanet and later served as a principal investigator for DARPA and NSF. Jacques has published several textbooks about computer networking and has maintained a long-term interest in unidentified flying objects, currently (2018) serving on the expert committee of the French CNES tasked with studying such reports. He received the Jules Verne Prize for his first science-fiction novel (in French). He resides between San Francisco and Paris. He has two children and three grandchildren.
Address: PO Box 641650, San Francisco, CA. 94164
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The emphasis here is on the two leading personalities (Englebart and Baran) and their struggles to implement their personal vision of a revolutionary new mode of communication, rather than an emphasis on the technology itself.
This paper explores how such "Conferencing" can be a tool for the effective use of judgmental data as input to forecasting, planning and decision-making, when the participants are geographically dispersed.
This paper was presented at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schloss Laxenburg, Austria, an academic institution jointly funded by the US, the USSR and eight other nations.
These projects, which represented NASA's first exposure to computer network collaboration, involved (1) A conference on the future of transportation tasked with recommending procedures for intercity travel through the year 2000, and (2) A joint Canada-US permanent link for the scheduling, maintenance and daily use of the Communications Technology Satellite (CTS), an important spacecraft prototype. The participants in both cases were scattered throughout North America.
The project collected large amounts of statistical data about usage of the medium, from which seven practical areas of especially significant improvement in management and working patterns were derived.
The impact that thjis system has had on the administration and work patterns of the Hematopathology section is described. (Co-authors: Paul L. Wolf, MD and H. Ludwig.)
The use of the PLANET system on connection with the 1975 COGEODATA/UNESCO conferences in London and Paris represents the first instance when computer conferencing has been used to prepare, manage and follow up a major scientific meeting. These conferences also are the first instances when scientists from nine countries have been able to work jointly through a direct computer link.
This article introduces an alternative approiach in which the computer is used during the earliest stages of model construction. Through an extension of computer teleconferencing it is possible to incorporate non-human "participants" -- modules, data bases, or parts of programs -- in the modeling process.
Experience with a direct-access network for astronomers is reviewed, also an automated processing system for bone marrow data and blood bank information, and an example of generalized programs in cancer research.
The DIRAC language is the first in a family used to test alternative formulations for the use of scientific data or Library documents in interactive mode. We describe applications in astronomy and medicine in a time-sharing environment.
(Note: DIRAC was the first database system operational at Stanford University and the Stanford Medical School, starting in 1970).
The emphasis here is on the two leading personalities (Englebart and Baran) and their struggles to implement their personal vision of a revolutionary new mode of communication, rather than an emphasis on the technology itself.
This paper explores how such "Conferencing" can be a tool for the effective use of judgmental data as input to forecasting, planning and decision-making, when the participants are geographically dispersed.
This paper was presented at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schloss Laxenburg, Austria, an academic institution jointly funded by the US, the USSR and eight other nations.
These projects, which represented NASA's first exposure to computer network collaboration, involved (1) A conference on the future of transportation tasked with recommending procedures for intercity travel through the year 2000, and (2) A joint Canada-US permanent link for the scheduling, maintenance and daily use of the Communications Technology Satellite (CTS), an important spacecraft prototype. The participants in both cases were scattered throughout North America.
The project collected large amounts of statistical data about usage of the medium, from which seven practical areas of especially significant improvement in management and working patterns were derived.
The impact that thjis system has had on the administration and work patterns of the Hematopathology section is described. (Co-authors: Paul L. Wolf, MD and H. Ludwig.)
The use of the PLANET system on connection with the 1975 COGEODATA/UNESCO conferences in London and Paris represents the first instance when computer conferencing has been used to prepare, manage and follow up a major scientific meeting. These conferences also are the first instances when scientists from nine countries have been able to work jointly through a direct computer link.
This article introduces an alternative approiach in which the computer is used during the earliest stages of model construction. Through an extension of computer teleconferencing it is possible to incorporate non-human "participants" -- modules, data bases, or parts of programs -- in the modeling process.
Experience with a direct-access network for astronomers is reviewed, also an automated processing system for bone marrow data and blood bank information, and an example of generalized programs in cancer research.
The DIRAC language is the first in a family used to test alternative formulations for the use of scientific data or Library documents in interactive mode. We describe applications in astronomy and medicine in a time-sharing environment.
(Note: DIRAC was the first database system operational at Stanford University and the Stanford Medical School, starting in 1970).
A l'occasion d'une série de débats (qui impliquaient Messrs. Ingo Swann, Richard Bach, Hal Puthoff, Arthur Hastings, Jean Baudot et plusieurs autres chercheurs en parapsychology), une série d'expériences formelles furent conduites, utilisant comme "cibles" des minéraux ayant des propriétés remarquables, choisis parmi les collections de la U.S. Geological Survey.
L'article décrit des experiences, les résultats, et une série de discussions qui suivirent parmi une assemblée de chercheurs français.
This knowledge is related to the mean value of the product: (age of civilization multiplied by development index) and it varies in first approximation as the logarithm of the distance.
Actual communication and potential contact, on the other hand, will consume energy. It is proportional to a power of the distance. Combining these two factors gives an average distance of 5 to 10 parsecs to the six nearest civilizations.
This is a more optimistic model than Von Hoerner's estimate (which is 50 times larger) and a more pessimistic one than S.S. Huang, who estimates the number of inhabitable systems at 3% to 5% of the number of stars. Our model is close to an estimate of eight billion inhabitable systems in our galaxy, with the probability of contact declining rapidly beyond an optimum radius.
The speakers were unanimous in highlighting the reality of the phenomenon and called for coordination in research among interested nations.
These results of the first use of computer networking for parapsychology confirm earlier reports of successful remote viewing experiments while extending them to cases in which participants were thousands of miles away from each other and in which the target were physical samples of potential economic significance, with control of the communication provided by a computer network.
The Internet has become both a tool and a victim of this global mutation.
These opportunities come at several levels: (1) Research can be extended in real or differed time around the world, eliminating many financial and logistical concerns with travel and coordination, (2) A higher degree of accuracy in data capture is assured through the network’s precise text and time recording, (3) Spontaneous phenomena having to do with coincidences, distance perception and non-locality can be unobtrusively captured and studied well beyond the anecdotal quality of current practice, and (4) Much greater security and protection against fraud can be provided, verified and audited.
The parapsychology community has begun taking advantage of the new tools in a number of ongoing studies where current practices can be extended. Beyond these practical considerations of the technology, however, the new phenomena have also been frequently noted by software teams coding the systems could be profitably reviewed. They date back to the very early days of the Arpanet (circa 1975) when we developed the first social network for use by research and industrial organizations. Our observations forced us to think of the software systems we were building as tools that superseded both space and time. Since remote viewing presented itself as a convenient experimental scheme, we applied it to a series of innovative tests whose results could be re-purposed today in the current environment of widely-available, inexpensive social networks.
To that end, we review here the experimental setup that was used to assess the impact of the technology on the perceptions and behavior of our users of the new software; we note the phenomena we observed during these tests; and we project these observations into proposals for the exploitation of social networking as a convenient new instrument for the study of social and individual consciousness.