Who am I?

My education and my personal experience

After school studies in Lycée Champollion in Grenoble, I got a Licence ès Sciences and a Thèse de troisième cycle in Computer Science. My main subject was the comparison of the main programming langages. My Doctorate Thesis was also in Computer Science, and dealt with a programming language for interactive graphics programming.

My first academic position was at the University of Grenoble, from 1964 to 1970. I have been a professor at the University of Montréal, Canada, from 1970 to 1974. From then to my retirement, I have been a professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. All these positions were in Computer Science.

I have also been an invited professor, for shorter periods, at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, the University of Montréal, and the University of Lausanne.

My expertise

I have learnt Computer Science from its beginning. For 45 years, I have taught it to innumerable students, at all possible levels and in all possible curricula.

I have did that in France (Grenoble, Lyon and Nice), in Canada (Montréal and Quebec City), and in Switzerland. Thus, I have been in contact with very different audiences.

I have been an expert in free software and its main applications, from their beginning. This amounts to 20 years for some of them.

I have had the full responsibility of administering about 40 different computers, and also the part responsibility of application installation on computers serving many users.

 
Last change: 2010/12/10