Gérard Berry - "Why Informatics Generates Mental Inversions"

The digital revolution is often thought of as a technical revolution that impacts a wide variety of human activities. Using a variety of examples involving children as well as adults, we argue that its reach is far wider in the sense that it modifies or inverts many of our basic perceptions such as those of space and time, and explain why algorithmic thinking deeply changes many elementary ways of reflecting and acting in field as varied as science, engineering, medicine, and art.

Gérard Berry

Gérard Berry is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Technologies and Academia Europaea. He was researcher at Ecole des Mines and Inria from 1973 to 2000 and the Chief Scientist Officer of the Esterel Technologies company from 2000 to 2009. He joined back Inria from 2009 to 2012. He held two yearly chair at Collège de France: Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation in 2007-2008 and Informatics and Digital Sciences chair in 2008-2009. He is currently Professor at Collège de France where he holds the Algorithms, Machines and Languages chair since September 2012.

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