Philippe Dreyfus

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Philippe Dreyfus is an informatics pioneer in France.

After gaining his Bachelor Degree in physics in 1950 from the the Physics and Chemistry faculty in Paris, he became a professor at the Informatics faculty at Harvard University using Mark I, the first automated computer ever built. In 1958 he was nominated director of the Bull Calculus Centre.

In 1962 he coined the new term Informatique .

In 1965 he became director of CAP Europe, an Anglo-French company, as well as director of CAP France and CAP UK. After CAP France and CAP Europe fused with Sogeti, and the consequent acquisition of Gemini Inc. (USA), he became in 1975 Vice-President of Sogeti, a position he still holds today.

Philippe Dreyfus is a member of the ECSA Council (European Computing Services Association) and was the founder of Syntec Informatique.

In 1962 he invented and definied the concept of programming language and in 1990 he introduced the concept of informativity ( Informativité ).

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