Born in France in 1939, Jacques studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, earned a Master’s degree in astrophysics at the University of Lille and was recruited to the first French team that tracked early artificial satellites at Paris Observatory.
Moving to the US in 1962, he pursued his passion for science working on NASA projects at the University of Texas in Austin (notably, coding the first computer-based map of Mars) before joining Northwestern University where he completed his PhD in artificial intelligence. Jacques continued his computing and entrepreneurial career at Stanford University and SRI International as one of DARPA's Principal Investigators on the early Internet before managing a family of venture capital funds in Silicon Valley, specializing in information technology startups and early-stage medical and biotech investments.
Throughout his life, Jacques has maintained an interest in unidentified aerial phenomena, publishing his research in books that have been widely translated around the world. He was the real-life model for the character portrayed by François Truffaut in the film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Jacques lives between San Francisco and Paris. He has two children.
Also by Jacques Vallee
www.jacquesvallee.net
Novels:
FastWalker, novel (Berkeley: Frog, Ltd.)
Stratagem, novel (San Francisco: Documatica Research)
Science and Technology:
The Network Revolution (And/or, Penguin, Google)
Electronic Meetings (co-author, Addison-Wesley)
Computer Message Systems (McGraw-Hill)
The Four Elements of Financial Alchemy (Berkeley: TenSpeed)
The Heart of the Internet (Hampton Roads, free on Google Books)
UFOs and Paranormal:
Anatomy of a Phenomenon (Regnery, Ace, Ballantine)
Challenge to Science (Regnery, Ace, Ballantine)
Passport to Magonia (Regnery, Contemporary)
The Invisible College (New Yort: E. P. Dutton)
Messengers of Deception (And/or, Bantam)
The Edge of Reality (with Dr. J. A. Hynek, Contemporary)
Dimensions (Contemporary, Ballantine, Anomalist Books)
Confrontations (Ballantine, Anomalist Books)
Revelations (Ballantine, Anomalist Books)
A Cosmic Samizdat (New York: Ballantine)
Forbidden Science, Vol. 1-4 (Documatica, Anomalist Books)
Wonders in the Sky (with C. Aubeck, New York & London: Tarcher-Penguin)
In French:
Le Sub-Espace, novel (Paris: Hachette — Jules Verne Prize)
Le Satellite Sombre, novel (Paris: Denoël, collection Présence du Futur)
Alintel, novel (Paris: Le Mercure de France)
La Mémoire de Markov, novel (Paris: Le Mercure de France)
Les Enjeux du Millénaire, essay (Paris: Hachette Littératures)
Au Coeur d’Internet (Paris: Balland, free on Google Books)
Stratagème, novel (Paris: L’Archipel)
Science Interdite, Vol. 1 (Marseille: Parasciences)
Science Interdite, Vol. 2 (Genève: Aldan)
