Gilbert Paquette
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Gilbert Paquette (born October 19, 1942, in Montreal, Quebec) is a researcher at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur le téléapprentissage (CIRTA-LICEF), which he founded in 1992, and a Quebec politician.
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Gilbert Paquette holds a doctorate from the University of Maine, in France, in artificial intelligence and education and is also the occupant of the Chaire de recherche du Canada en ingénierie cognitive du téléapprentissage et directeur scientifique du réseau canadien de recherche (LORNET) and a professor at UQAM.
He is a lecturer for many international conferences and takes part in the scientific committee of five magazines. He also founded two companies, Micro-Intel (1987-1991) and Cogigraph (1999-2004).
Paquette was Minister of Sciences and Technology from 1982 to 1984 in the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque. He made a comeback on the political scene in 2005 when he joined the Parti Québécois leadership election to succeed Bernard Landry. On November 10, 2005 he withdrew from the race and asked his supporters to vote for Pauline Marois.
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- Parti Québécois leadership election, 2005
- Parti Québécois
- Quebec sovereignty movement
- Politics of Quebec
