Nivio Ziviani
Nivio Ziviani | |
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Born | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | August 27, 1946
Alma mater | University of Waterloo Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Federal University of Minas Gerais |
Known for | Akwan Information Technologies |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Doctoral advisor | Gaston Gonnet |
Nivio Ziviani is a Brazilian researcher and computer scientist who was born in the city of Belo Horizonte on August 27, 1946, holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, 1971, a master's degree in informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 1976, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, 1982.[1][2] As a researcher, he is known for his projects in information retrieval and recommendation systems. In 2011, he received the Scientific Merit Award from the Brazilian Computer Society.[3] Ziviani has Erdös number 2.[4][5] Currently, he is an emeritus professor in the Computer Science department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais,[3][2] is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences,[6] he is part of the National Order of Scientific Merit in the Commendator class,[7] and coordinates the Laboratory for Treating Information (LATIN).[8]
Known books
[edit]Among his contributions, he produced three books:
- Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Pascal e em C[9] (Cengage Learning, ISBN 9788522110506, Third Edition, 2010) (in Portuguese).
- Diseño de Algoritmos com implementaciones en Pascal y C[10](Thomson Learning, ISBN 978-84-9732-538-7, 2007) (in Spanish, translated from the Portuguese version).
- Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Java e C++[11] (Thomson Learning, ISBN 85-221-0525-1, Second Edition, 2007) (in Portuguese).
Business
[edit]He created one of the first search engines for the web and fomented the development of companies through his scientific production with respect to Recommendation Systems.[3] He was co-founder of the Miner Technology Group in 1998, which was acquired by Grupo Folha de S.Paulo / UOL in 1999, and Akwan Information Technologies in 2000, bought by Google in 2005.[3] With Akwan, Google started its R & D Center in Latin America[12][13] located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Among his most recent activities, he was co-founder of a start-up called Kunumi,[8] co-founder of the Information Retrieval Research Group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, General Co-chair of the 28th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,[14] co-founder and member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval.[14][15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nivio Ziviani at Mathematics Genealogy Project", Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Nivio Ziviani recebe título de Professor Emérito da UFMG". Notícias da UFMG.
- ^ a b c d "Professor da UFMG recebe prêmio de mérito científico da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação", Estado de Minas, 2011
- ^ List of people with Erdos number 2
- ^ Botelho, Fabiano C.; Kohayakawa, Yoshiharu; Ziviani, Nivio (2005), "A practical minimal perfect hashing method", Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3503, pp. 488–500, doi:10.1007/11427186_42, ISBN 978-3-540-25920-6
- ^ "Nivio Ziviani at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences", Brazilian Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on 2013-12-20, retrieved 2013-01-31
- ^ "Nivio Ziviani at Ministry of Science and Technology (Brazil)", Ministry of Science and Technology (Brazil)
- ^ a b A pequena Kunumi vai brigar contra o Google, 2017
- ^ Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Pascal e em C
- ^ Diseño de Algoritmos com implementaciones en Pascal y C
- ^ Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Java e C++
- ^ "Google compra empresa brasileira de busca", Universo Online, 2005, archived from the original on 2013-12-20, retrieved 2013-02-14
- ^ Google monta base em Minas Gerais
- ^ a b "28th SIGIR", Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
- ^ SPIRE 2012, archived from the original on 2013-12-20, retrieved 2013-02-01
External links
[edit]- Página de Nivio Ziviani
- Kunumi
- Neemu, archived from the original on 2013-02-08, retrieved 2013-02-14
- Laboratório para Tratamento da Informação (LATIN)