Thierry Bardini, a sociologist, is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada, where he co-directs the Research Laboratory in Multimedia Communication. Among the papers he has published on hypermedia, he is the author of “Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace,” where he described the history of hypertext through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.

In 2000, he published Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, a book about Douglas Engelbart's career and the rise and fall of the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute.