Yves Stourdzé (1947 – December 1986) was a French
sociologist.
He studied technical and institutional conditions for innovation and how acceptable the effects of these are on society. He has also produced one of the most pertinent analyses of the phenomenon of
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Yves Sourdzé worked at CESTA (Centre d'Études des Systèmes et Technologies Avancées) from 1979 to 1987 and founded the European research project
EUREKA
Eureka (often abbreviated as E!, or Σ!) is an intergovernmental organisation for research and development funding and coordination. Eureka is an open platform for international cooperation in innovation. Organisations and companies applying th ...
. In 1985, he organised in Paris the first international colloquium on the
cognitive sciences: "Cognitiva 85 : de l’intelligence artificielle aux biosciences".
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Articles
(incomplete list)
* "Autopsie d'une machine à laver", ''Culture Technique'', September 1980.
Legacy
An amphitheatre at the ministry of research (ex-Ecole polytechnique, rue Descartes à Paris V°) bears his name.
Works
* ''Organisation, anti-organisation'', Mame, 1973, .
* ''Les ruines du futur'', Utopies, 1979.
* ''Recherche image'', with H. False, Documentation Française, 1981.
* ''Technologie, culture et communication'', with A. Mattelard, Documentation Française, 1982, .
* ''Images, visualisation et informatique'', with Richard Clavaud et Jean-Paul Gillet, CESTA, 1984, .
* ''Pour une poignée d'électrons'', Fayard, 1987, .
References
External links
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1947 births
1986 deaths
French sociologists
French male writers
20th-century French male writers
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