Sébastien Paquet
Computer Scientist
1976 –
Who is Sébastien Paquet?
Sébastien Paquet is a Canadian academic, researcher, and blogger best known for his work on the Internet Topic Exchange with Phillip Pearson, a precursor to modern-day tags and folksonomies, as well as his social software blog many-to-many, cohosted with Clay Shirky, Ross Mayfield, David Weinberger, and Danah Boyd. He has been credited with introducing the notion of Ridiculously Easy Group-Forming in 2002.
Paquet earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Montreal, his thesis title was A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines. After his Ph.D., he joined the National Research Council of Canada where he worked with Stephen Downes before joining SocialText for a year in 2005.
He is currently a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal.
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- Born
- 1976
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- Canada
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- Education
- Université de Montréal
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- Canada
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on July 23, 2013
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