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Dr. Jacques Vallee has authored twenty books and more than fifty articles in fields ranging from astrophysics to database management, communications, and finance. Educated in France, where he received a master's degree in astrophysics, he specialized in computer science in the United States, obtained his doctorate in artificial intelligence at Northwestern University, and led the team that developed pioneering network software on ARPANET, the ancestor of Internet. A passionate observer of Silicon Valley, he founded an information technology company there before becoming a venture capitalist. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Janine. They have two childrenValee, Jacques F. is the author of 'Heart of the Internet An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-Line Revolution' with ISBN 9781571743695 and ISBN 1571743693.
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