Sébastien Paquet is a Canadian

Canada

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  academic, researcher

Researcher

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, and blog

Blog

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ger best known for his work on the Internet Topic Exchange with Phillip Pearson, a precursor to modern-day tags and folksonomies, as well as his social software blog many-to-many, cohosted with Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New...

, Ross Mayfield

Ross Mayfield

Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California.He now is Vice President of Business Development of SlideShare...

, David Weinberger

David Weinberger

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, and Danah Boyd

Danah Boyd

danah boyd also known as Danah Michele Boyd, is an American social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of social networking sites by youth...

. He has been credited with introducing the notion of Ridiculously Easy Group-Forming in 2002.

Paquet earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Montreal, his thesis title was A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines. After his Ph.D., he joined the National Research Council of Canada where he worked with Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes is a designer and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. Downes has explored and promoted the educational use of computer and online technologies since 1995...

 before joining SocialText

Socialtext

Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, comprising an integrated suite of web-based social software applications including microblogging, user profile, directories, groups, personal dashboards using OpenSocial widgets, and shared...

 for a year in 2005.

He is currently a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal

Université du Québec à Montréal

The Université du Québec à Montréal is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Basic facts:The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec , a public university system with other branches in Gatineau , Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and...

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External links

• Picture of Paquet on flickr
• Many-to-many - a group blog cofounded by Paquet
• Seb's Open Research - Paquet's blog
• A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines - Paquet's doctoral thesis