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 Executive Vice-President
at Questel-Orbit.
Pierre has been 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).