Jean-Claude Guédon
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Jean-Claude Guédon was born in Le Havre, France in 1943. In 1960-1, he was an American Field Service Exchange Student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, N.Y. (USA). He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam New York and finally earned a Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario (Canada in 1970 and has been a professor at the University of Montreal since 1973, first in the Institut d'histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, and, since 1987, in the Département de littérature comparée. He is a long-time member of the Internet Society serving as co-chair of the program committee in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and member of the same committee in 1997, 1999 and 2002. He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991). Until 2006 he has been a member of OSI's Information Program sub-board, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries). Earlier, he was Chair of the Advisory Board for CNSLP (Canadian National Site Licence Project, now known as CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge network). He has advised numerous governmental bodies, including the Ministère de la Recherche (France) for their e-publication project in the humanities and the social sciences; the Agence de la francophonie for matters pertaining to new technologies; the Quebec Minister of Communication in charge of the information highway; and the Quebec Ministry of education for the integration of the new technologies into the curriculum. He has also won a few prizes such as Prix Internationa Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996) and the Excellence Prize of the Society for Digital Humanities. He was also names "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998 and in 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-President of the Canadian Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His portfolio is "dissemination of research".
