Pierre Buffet has an engineering degree in Informatics (1969).
He then worked for the Operational Research group of the French
Navy before joining the CNRS Documentation Centre as Head of the
Computer Department where he was in charge of setting up the Pascal
system. He then was a founding member of Questel where he took
the position of Database Manager. He is now Managing Director
at Questel-Orbit.
Pierre was Associate Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical Information
and Computer Sciences for 10 years, and is a programme committee
member of the International Chemical Information Conference organised
by Infonortics. He was Chairman of EUSIDIC for three years, and
a CEC DG-III expert on multimedia (Esprit programme).