Henri Lesourd acts as a software architect: he contributes to the technical design and implementation of MuKn products. Henri has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Paris 6, and was involved as a researcher and research engineer in several projects at the Saarland University (especially in the context of developing user interfaces to various intelligent mathematical assistants, and of developing interactive educational software for language learning), in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (to contribute to the design of a middleware to distribute digitized historical texts), and at Nordisk Folkecenter for Renewable Energies (in the context of contributing to the development of low-tech hardware/software to enable remote sensing and control of wind turbines).

Beyond developing beautiful software, following Descartes, who wanted to develop a method for thinking that is so perfect that “anyone, however humble his abilities may be, will nevertheless perceive that none of these [thinking] ways is less open to him than to anyone else”, Henri’s main interest revolves around creating a technology which is understandable and easy to appropriate for its recipients. Henri believes that, among the current trends, the development of Web 3.0 is one of those things that has the potential to genuinely deliver in this realm.