Pierre A. Lévy, CRC, FRSC

Full Professor, Department of Communication

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.


Office: 304, 30 Stewart Street
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2401
E-mail: plevy@uOttawa.ca

University degrees

Licence MA, Sorbonne
PhD, EHESS Paris
Habilitation (PhD) in sciences of information and communication, Université de Grenoble

Fields of interest

  • Cyberculture
  • Knowledge management
  • Theory of communication

Ongoing research

In the context of his Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, he works on the design of a universal system for semantic addressing of digital documents.
Research Website: http://www.ieml.org

Selected publications

Les technologies de l'intelligence (La Découverte, Paris, 1990) Translated in five langages

L'intelligence collective (La Découverte, Paris, 1994) Translated in seven langages, including English

Qu'est-ce que le virtuel? (La Découverte, Paris, 1995) Translated in seven langages, including English

Cyberculture (Odile Jacob, Paris, 1997) Translated in ten langages, including English

World Philosophie (Odile Jacob, Paris, 2000) Translated in four langages

Cyberdémocratie (Odile Jacob, Paris, 2002) Translated in three langages

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