

In 1971, Vallée left Stanford to join the Engelbart group as a senior research engineer.
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Upon learning that Vallée had written several books about UFOs, Sturrock felt a professional obligation to peruse Vallée's work, prompting his own research in the subject. Sturrock's Institute for Plasma Research. In 1970, Vallée became a consultant to Stanford applied physicist Peter A. Thereafter, he briefly worked for Royal Dutch Shell (in Paris) and the RCA Service Company (in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) as an engineer before joining the Stanford University Computer Center as manager of information systems in 1969. Professionally, he began to conduct early artificial intelligence research and received a PhD in industrial engineering and computer science from the institution in 1967. Allen Hynek, the chair of the University's astronomy department. He was initially employed as a systems analyst at nearby Northwestern University while continuing to pursue non-institutional ufological research with his mentor, J. In 1963, Vallée relocated to Chicago, Illinois. While at McDonald Observatory, he compiled NASA's first detailed informational map of Mars with de Vaucouleurs.

Vallée moved to the United States in 1962 and began working as a research associate in astronomy under Gérard de Vaucouleurs at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first science fiction novel, Le Sub-espace (1961), published under the pseudonym of Jérôme Sériel. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961.

He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Paris in 1959 and received the equivalent of an MS in astrophysics from the University of Lille Nord de France in 1961. Vallée was born in Pontoise, France in 1939. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Jacques Fabrice Vallée ( French: born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
