Thierry Bardini (born 1960s) is a French
sociologist, author of the book ''Bootstrapping'', about
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...
. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication at the
Université de Montréal,
Canada. He is known for his work on innovation and sociology of technology.
Education and career
Bardini holds a degree in
agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...
(1986) and his first work was on agriculture production systems. He wrote his PhD thesis on technical systems in agriculture.
[BARDINI, T. (1991) ''Modèle technique et modernisation. Le cas du lait de brebis dans le rayon de Roquefort, 1950-1985'' (Université de Paris X: Nanterre, 1991). Lille: A.N.R.T, Université de Lille III, 1991.] He also did fieldwork on the history of agriculture in
Venezuela[ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1990) Le rôle de l'ingénieur agronome dans la situation politique de l'agriculture vénézuélienne: 1936-1948. Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, 26, 429-446.
ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1992) El papel del ingeniero agrónomo en el contexto político de la agricultura venezolana. IN FREITES, Y. & TEXERA, Y. (Eds.) Tiempos de cambio. La ciencia en Venezuela 1936-1948. Caracas, Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana.] and on a multi-disciplinary research project around the jack-bean
''
Canavalia ensiformis
''Canavalia ensiformis'' (jack bean) is a legume which is used for animal fodder and human nutrition, especially in Brazil where it is called ''feijão-de-porco'' ("pig bean"). It is also the source of concanavalin A.
Description
''C. ensif ...
'' agriculture and similar topics in
Venezuela,
[ARVANITIS, R. & BARDINI, T. (1992) Analyse d'un programme multidisciplinaire de recherche par deux méthodes d'analyse des réseaux: le cas du groupe de Recherche sur Canavalia. IN ARVANITIS, R. & GAILLARD, J. (Eds.) Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en développement / Science Indicators for Developing Countries. Paris, Editions de l'ORSTOM.] before working in the United States on innovation diffusion under the direction of
Everett Rogers at the
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He then left for Université de Montréal, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with
Brian Massumi).
Books
In 2000, he published ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', a book about
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...
's career and the rise and fall of the
Augmentation Research Center
SRI International's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) was founded in the 1960s by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing.
The main product to come ...
at
Stanford Research Institute.
He has published a book titled ''Junkware'' in the Posthumanities Series at Minnesota Press in 2011.
Selected publications
References
Canadian sociologists
French sociologists
University of Southern California staff
Living people
French male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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