Graduate Engineer from the École Centrale de Lyon (a Superior French School of Engineering) and from the ENSPM (IFP School – France)

Position:
Senior Engineer at IFP (French Petroleum Institute)

Field of publication:
Computer Sciences, Geophysics

Author of about 30 scientific articles, Mr. Dubesset published 3 titles with Editions Technip:
In English-French - French English:
– Dictionary of Seismic Prospecting (contributor)
In French:
– Fortran, le langage normalisé (with J. Vignes)
– Les spécificités du Fortran 90 (with J. Vignes)
– Le manuel du Système International d’unités. Pratique et contraintes

Graduate Engineer from ENSPM (IFP School - France)
Ph.D. in Sciences

Position:
Scientific Adviser at IFP (french institute of petroleum), Professor Emeritus at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris - France

Field of publication:
Computer sciences

Author of about 60 scientific articles, Dr. Vignes published and edited 12 titles including, in French:
- Algorithmes numériques. Analyse et mise en œuvre
  - Tome 1. Arithmétique des ordinateurs. Systèmes linéaires (Ed. Technip)
  - Tome 2. Équations et systèmes non linéaires (Ed. Technip)
- FORTRAN. Le langage normalisé (Ed. Technip)
- Les spécificités du FORTRAN 90 (Ed. Technip)
- Ingénierie du contrôle de la précision des calculs sur ordinateur (Ed. Technip)
- Théorie et pratique de la programmation COBOL (Ed. Technip)
- Qualité des calculs sur ordinateurs (Masson)

Complementary information:
Dr. Vignes was awarded the Computer sciences Prize of the "Académie des Sciences", Paris - France in 1982. He is an Honorary Member of IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computer in Simulation).