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Ana M. B. Pavani
Associate Professor
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
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Electrical Engineer (UFRGS – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (CUNY – City University of New York, USA) and Doctor in Science in Electrical Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ – Coordenação dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Associate professor, in the area of Systems and Automation, at the Department of Electrical Engineering of PUC-Rio – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, having worked for the university since 1976.
Interests and activities in the area of ICT – Information and Communication Technology applied to culture and education; special focus on digital libraries & collections, and ICT assisted education.
Among the external activities, the following deserve being mentioned:
Technical manager of the Vatican Library Project Laboratory (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, PUC-Rio and IBM) from 1992 to 1997, where the digital library prototype server was developed.
Technical manager of Biblioteca Nacional (National Library of Brazil) Project in 2002, when the digital library and the portal system were developed.
General and technical manager of the Passado Musical (Musical Past) Project, funded by Petrobras under the public selection Petrobras Cultural 2003-2004; a digital library of Brazilian music from digitization of the National Library 78 RPM records was developed.
General and technical manager of CCPA Virtual – Centro Cultural dos Povos da Amazônia Virtual (Cultural Center of the Amazon People) Project, a partnership with State Secretary of Culture of the Amazon and PUC-Rio, from 2005 to 2006.
Instructor of more than 15 courses on digital libraries.
Author and manager of the development of interactive on-line courses on digital libraries for the Ministry of Culture (of Brazil) and a IBICT – Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia and UNESCO Project.
Author of many national and international works in this area.
Member of the Technical Consulting Committee of BDTD – Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, the Brazilian National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Consortium, coordinated by IBICT.
Member of the Board of Directors of NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
PUC-Rio representative at ISTEC.
Recipient of the 2003 NDLTD ETD Leadership Award.
Member of the Committee for the renewal of UNESCO Information for All Programmee in Brazil, nationally coordinated by IBICT.
Member of the technical committees of various conferences.
Reviewer of the Ciência da Informação journal.
In the university, has designed and managed the implementation of the Maxwell System – an institutional repository with multiple types of contents, a distance learning environment, a digital publishing facility and an administrative backoffice. The current collection contains ETDs, senior projects, journals, books, articles and courseware. The number of ETDs is over 3,800.
The Maxwell System has received grants from Brazilian funding agencies – FAPERJ – Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. The most important aimed at the development of online interactive courseware devoted to engineering education and to the implementation of accessibility tools to support the blind and the visually impaired. |
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Dario Francisco Guimarães de Azevedo
Associate Professor
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
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A native of Brazil, Dario F. Guimarães de Azevedo obtained his Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering Degree in 1996 from the University of Miami. Prior to his degree, he attended, in Brazil, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, from 1981 to 1983 and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC/RJ, from 1975 to 1979. In the USA he attended the George Washington University, G.W.U., in 1974 for 1 year.
In his professional career, Dario is currently a Professor and Dean for International and Institutional Affairs at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was also from 2002 to 2007 a Director of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Researchers. In his current duties with that institution, he is also an Undergraduate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Computer Engineering; Graduate Professor and Researcher in Electrical Engineering; Research areas: Biomedical Engineering and Digital Signal Processing applied to Health. Dr. Guimarães de Azevedo has also worked for the University of Miami as a visiting professor and currently working at the Research and Development Department in the College Of Engineering and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. With the Government of Rio Grande do Sul State, in 2007, he was the Ad joint Secretary and Technical Director of the Secretariat of Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul State. For his vast experience in his field, he held the position of Consultant for the World Bank in the year of 2006. Other employers: Sun Automatic Systems of Data Processing Ltd (Sunrider) from 1988 to 1990, Aeroeletrônica – AEROMOT from 1984 to 1988 in the Hardware and Software and Research & Development division.
Research Areas
Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering Research; Medical Images; Medical Instrumentation; Space Medicine; Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing of Biological Parameters; Digital Signal Processing; Telemedicine; Physiology of the Eye; Industry Automation - Projects of hardware and software; Hardware and Software for computers.
Projects
Participation and coordination of 31 projects in the areas of telemedicine, digital signal processing, digital image processing, space medicine, biomedical engineering and industry automation.
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Marcelo de Vincenzi
Vice-President for Administration
Universidad Abierta Interamericana
Argentina
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Marcelo E. De Vincenzi Zemborain was born in 1962, playing a crucial role in both argentine and international education. He is National Public Accountant (University of Belgrano, 1986) and University Professor specialized in Computing, 1999. He has a Master degree in Business Administration, Engineering Information Systems (UC Berkeley and Golden Gate University, California) and is a PhD in Management (Pacific Western University, USA).
Among his most remarkable labor experience we can mention that since the year 2000 he has been a member of the Management Board in the World Alliance of Global Colleges And Universities; since 1995 has been the Vice President of Management and Evaluation as well as the Dean of the Information Technology Faculty of the Universidad Abierta Interamericana; and that since 1993 has been a partner of the Educational Group VANEDUC.
Regarding his institutional activities it is worth commenting that he was the President of the Berkeley Computer Dynamics (1990-1993), is a member of the Association of Private Educational Entities of the Republic Argentine ( A.D.E.E.P.R.A.), Member of the Engineering Consultant Committee of the Evaluation National Committee and University Reputation (CONEAU), Member of the IEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) and carried out External Evaluations for the Evaluating National Committee and University Reputation (CONEAU) specializing in Information Technology. Furthermore, he is a Member of the European Academy of Science, Art and Literature , Paris, France, since 2004 and Member of the Association for Computing Machinery since March, 2002.
De Vincenzi also wrote two books: “Studies on Medical Information” and “Applied Information” (Editorial: Universidad Abierta Interamericana).
He received the following awards: Candidate of Sadosky Awards 2007 in two categories, Educational Marketing Prize, 1999, granted by the Lázara Grupo Editor; Academic Vocation prize, Information Engineering Area, 1998, 2000, 2003, granted by Fundación El Libro, Lázara Grupo Editor; First Prize to the Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Category A, booth of more 42 m2, ExpoUniversity, Editions 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. Also, he received the 2004 Award to the professional work in the field of Science and Technology, granted by the Argentine Deputies Chamber.
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Max Costa
Associate Professor
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brazil
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Max H. M. Costa graduated as an Electrical Engineer at the University of Brasília in 1974. He received his Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 1977, his Master in Statistics from Stanford University in 1979, his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983, and his “Livre Docência” in Electrical Engineering from Unicamp in 1998.
He was a Researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Space Research (INPE), in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, from 1983 to 1988 and at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, in Schenectady, NY, USA, from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994 he was a Senior Research Associate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, CA, USA. Since 1995 he has been a Faculty Member at Unicamp, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC). His research interests are in the areas of information theory and digital signal processing, with emphasis in source and channel coding and in digital television. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT), and listed as a frequently cited author in http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/allcited.html. According to Google Scholar, his paper “Writing on dirty paper”, published in 1983, has been referenced by more than 900 papers. |
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Yanire Rodríguez
Education & Health Regional Executive
Sun Microsystems
USA
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Graduated as a Computer Engineer in the University of London, England with a post graduate in Marketing from the Universidad Catolica, Venezuela. Held different positions at IBM Venezuela during a period of eight years.
Has worked for Sun Microsystems for the last ten years, six of those as a Regional Director for Education and Research, Latinoamerica region.
Has being part of ISTEC Board of Director for the last three years and would like to be part of it again, since "I think it is the best way to close the digital divide in our region".
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Distinguished Individual Category |
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Donald W. Duszynski
Special Advisor to the President
University of New Mexico
USA
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Donald W. Duszynski, received his Bachelors of Science in Biology, Math, and Secondary Education from Wisconsin State University in 1966. Dr. Duszynski went on to receive his M.S. in Zoology, Parasitology from Colorado State University in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Zoology, Parasitology, also from CSU, in 1970. Dr. Duszynski was an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico from 1974 to 1979.
From 1979 till 2003 he was a Professor of Biology at UNM and from 1982 to 1991 he was the Chairman of Biology at UNM. From 2005 to 2007 Dr. Duszynski was the Director of the Museum of Southwestern Biology and from 2007 to the present he has been a Consultant for the Office of the Vice President for Research at UNM. Dr. Duszynski is the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on 27 local, state, federal and private research contracts and/or grants totaling more than $8,000,000.
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Jesus Finol
President and CEO
Fineau Technologies
Venezuela
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Dr. Jesus Finol is a dynamic, results-oriented Engineering Executive with international vision, perseverance and strong will power. Dr. Finol has a record of career success, professionalism, experience and integrity in diverse areas of the semiconductor industry. Over 25 years of Communication Technologies experience and over 15 years experience in relevant top managerial and project leader positions in the private sector national and international.
Motorola and the Hispanic Engineering Society have recognized him for outstanding professional performance. Jesus is Fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese. A native from Maracaibo, Venezuela, Jesus Finol started his career as a Professor at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1972-1982 He taught graduate and undergraduate classes in Semiconductors, Electromagnetic Theory and integrated circuit design. In 1983, Dr. Finol moved to the United States and in 1992 became a US citizen. In the USA, Dr. Finol started a career in Industry with Harris Corporation, in the Semiconductor Data-Acquisition Division where he delivered key designs into production. From 1987-1988 Jesus served as Senior Expert with the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, in Geneva-Switzerland. At ITU, Jesus worked at the R&D Center of the Brazilian Telecommunication Company in Campinas, Brazil. There, Jesus served as a mentor in IC design for telecommunication and established an Analog IC design capability. After returning to the USA, Dr. Finol spent 3 years with Intel’s System Technology Division in Oregon working in new technologies and design methodologies for microprocessors. Dr. Finol then move to Motorola where spent 17 years with both the Radio and Semiconductor Divisions. During his tenure with Motorola, he made significant contributions designing strategic Wireless Transceivers and Pioneer the Integration of RF Receive and Transmit sections in BiCMOS Technology. He was elevated to Motorola Fellow in 1998 and in 2000; became Chief Scientist and Director of Engineering for the Semiconductor Products Sector in Latin America. In Latin America, he led the creation of Centers of Excellence in Integrated Circuit Design in Brazil and Mexico; and led an organization of 4 managers and 150+ engineers. As Chief Scientist; and working closely with the Ibero-American Science, Technology and Educational Consortium, ISTEC, He helped increase relationships between Motorola and Latin America Universities. |
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