Sébastien Paquet

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Sébastien Paquet is a Canadian academic, researcher, and blogger best known for his work on the Internet Topic Exchange[1] 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.

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.

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  1. ^ S. Paquet et P. Pearson, A Topic Sharing Infrastructure for Weblog Networks. Proceedings of the Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press.

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