Prof. Pierre Lévy is a French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence. Prof. Lévy introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book L'intelligence collective: Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace (Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace). Prof. Lévy's 1995 book, Qu'est-ce que le virtuel (translated as Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age) develops philosopher Gilles Deleuze's conception of "the virtual" as a dimension of reality that subsists with the actual but is irreducible to it. In 2001, Prof. Lévy wrote the book Cyberculture. Prof. Pierre Lévy currently teaches at the communication department of the University of Ottawa (Canada), where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence. Prof. Lévy is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received several awards and academic distinctions. In addition, Prof. Lévy is also a Researcher at CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Prof. UQAM, Maître de conf Paris-X Nanterre Scientific counsellor and founder Trivium SA (1992-1997), Inventor: Arbres de connaissances, Prof. Paris-8 St Denis, Prof UQTR, Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence (2002-2016), Prof. University of Ottawa, Inventor: IEML
