Pierre Lévy

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Pierre Lévy (born 1956 in Tunis) is a Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Ottawa. From 1993 to 1998 he was Professor at the University of Paris VIII. Professor Levy studies the concept of collective intelligence and knowledge-based societies. He is a world-leading thinker on “cyberculture”. In 2004 he was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada. His recent works are focussed on the development of an Information Economy Meta Language (IEML) based on semiotic concepts.

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His original work, written in French and translated into English, is entitled Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace ISBN 0-7382-0261-4 (Perseus, 2000).

Publications in French:

La machine univers. La Decouverte, Paris 1987
Les technologies de l'intelligence. La Découverte, Paris 1990
L'idéographie dynamique. Vers une imagination artificielle ?. La Découverte, Paris 1992
De la programmation considérée comme un des beaux-arts. La Découverte, Paris 1992
Les arbres de connaissances. Découverte, Paris 1992 (with Michel Authier)
L'intelligence collective. Pour une anthropologie du cyberespace. La Découverte, Paris 1994
L'universel sans totalité. In: Magazine Littéraire. 1966-1996. La passion des idées, hors-série
Cyberculture. Editions Jacob, Paris 1997
Qu'est-ce que le virtuel ?. La Découverte, Paris 1998
World Philosophie (le marché, le cyberespace, la conscience). Editons Jacob, Paris 2000
Cyberdémocratie. Essai de philosophie politique. Editions Jacob, Paris 2002

He is one of the major philosophers working on the implications of cyberspace and digital communications. Henry Jenkins, amongst others, cites him as an important influence on theories of online collective intelligence.