Computer Science Research Agenda in Latin America

This session of the 2005 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit provides an overview of the computer science research agenda in Latin America, including discussion about the regional organization and existing collaborative programs. We review several projects as examples of successful research in this emerging region.

The number of science and engineering articles credited to Latin American organizational authors and published in the most recognized influential scientific and technical journals almost tripled between 1988 and 2001. This growth rate was greater than that of emerging and developing countries in other regions. The increase in the number of Latin American articles was concentrated in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

During this session, we take a look at specific research projects from Brazil and Chile.

Speaker Details

Miguel Nussbaum, Electrical Engineer, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1980, Master of Science in ‘Information and Computer Science’, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA 1984, Doktor der Technischen Wissenschaften, ‘Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule’ (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, 1988. Is full professor for Computer Science at the School of Engineering of the Catholic University of Chile, has been member of the board of the Chilean National Science Foundation, FONDECYT, and is member of the “Interim Scientific Advisory Board of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge”, He was winner of the Innovation in Education for the Americas of the Organization of American States in 2004, and considered one of the 50 innovative Chileans of 2007. In 2009, he won the best conference paper award at the CSCL conference. His pedagogical methodology supported by collaborative technology for transforming the classroom experience is used in more than 80 schools in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, England and USA.

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Speakers:
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Miguel Nussbaum, and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Universidad de Chile
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