Yves Stourdzé was a French

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 sociologist. He has studied technical and institutional conditions for innovation and how acceptable the effects of these are on society. He has also produced one of the most pertinant analyses of the phenomenon of informatisation.

Yves Sourdzé worked at CESTA (Centre d'Études des Systèmes et Technologies Avancées) from 1979-1987 and founded the European research project EUREKA

EUREKA

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. In 1985, he organised in Paris the first international colloqium on the cognitive sciences: "Cognitiva 85 : de l’intelligence artificielle aux biosciences".

Articles

(incomplete list)

• "Autopsie d'une machine à laver", Culture Technique, September 1980.

Legacy

An amphitheatre at the ministry of research (ex-Ecole polytechnique, rue Descartes à Paris V°) bears his name.

Works

• Organisation, anti-organisation, Mame, 1973, ISBN 2250005508.
• Les ruines du futur, Utopies, 1979.
• Recherche image, with H. False, Documentation Française, 1981.
• Technologie, culture et communication, with A. Mattelard, Documentation Française, 1982, ISBN 2110010177.
• Images, visualisation et informatique, with Richard Clavaud et Jean-Paul Gillet, CESTA, 1984, ISBN 2904760202.
• Pour une poignée d'électrons, Fayard, 1987, ISBN 2213020264.

External links

• http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/quad_0987-1381_1999_num_38_1_1401
• http://skyvington.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-metronome.html