Daniel Langlois

Daniel Langlois is a business man Quebec ois of the field of the Multimédia and Informatique. It founds Softimage in 1986 qu ' it sells in the years 1990 for an amount of approximately 200 million dollars. With its fortune, it creates a foundation bearing its name which has like drank to advance knowledge in art and science by supporting their meeting on the ground of technologies. The foundation thus wishes to encourage the blooming of a critical conscience with regard to the implications of technologies on the man, as well as the exploration of esthetics specific to the new human environments. In 1999, it creates the cinema Ex-Centris, which is a high place of cinema of repertory and which supports new technologies in 7th Article.

Partial biography

born in Quebec, Canada in 1957
diploma of design of the Université from Quebec in Montreal
works with the National office of the film
1986: foundation of Softimage
1994: director of the advanced tools of design of the group of advanced technologies of Microsoft
1996: doctorate honoris causa in administration of the University of Sherbrooke
1997: foundation of the Foundation Daniel Langlois
1998: creation of Ex-Centris
2002: doctorate honoris causa, Science, McGill University school of management
2004: doctorate honoris causa, Right, Concordia University, John Molson School off Business

Honors

1999 - Knight of the National order of Quebec
1999 - Officer of the Order of Canada
2004 - Large Montréalais

Partial catalog of films

Tony de Peltrie (1985)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Baronesses & the Pig
Face Hiding place the moon
Blue Butterfly
Amelia

See too

Pulpit Daniel Langlois of digital technologies and the fine arts

Reference

a contractor visionary

External bond

Foundation Daniel Langlois

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