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PERSONAL DATA
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Office Telephone
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+ 52(55) 5729 6000 ext 56569, facsímil: 5586 2936
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Home Telephone:
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+52(55) 5595 5075; 5683 6932; facsímil:
5668 1250
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Electronic Mail::
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a dot guzman at acm dot org
aguzman at alum dot mit dot edu
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URL:
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alum.mit.edu/www/aguzman
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Birth Place:
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Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca,
México.
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EDUCATION
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High School
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1959-1960
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Physics and Mathematics High School
No. 3, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN, or National Polytechnic
Institute), Mexico City, MEXICO.
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Scholarship:
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From IPN during all the studies period
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Accomplishments:
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- First place, entrance examination
(1st in 5000)
- Member of the Governing Board of the
IPN, 1960
- Member of the Honors Commission of
said Board.
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Under Graduate Studies.
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1961-1964.
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Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Mecanica
y Electrica (ESIME, or School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering),
IPN.
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Scholarship:
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From ESIME
during all the studies period
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Accomplishments:
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Member of
the Governing Board. 1963. As students’ representative..
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Degree:
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Communications
and Electronics Engineer. (B. Sc.). Professional Certificate (as a Communications
Engineer): #142197 (Mexico).
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Thesis:
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CONVERT. design
of a language for Symbol Manipulation and its Corresponding Processor.
CONVERT is a language like Snobol, written in LISP. Later, this work
was translated to English language by the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA, USA. After that it was translated to Braille.
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Area:
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Electric
Engineering, Computation, Symbol Manipulation.
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Thesis Director:
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Harold V.
McIntosh.
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Telecommunications Expert:
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License No.
126. It is a permit issue by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation,
to Electronic Engineers, enabling them to certificate and validate telecommunication
and teleprocessing equipment; it is renewed each year. There are about
400 Telecommunication experts in all the country.
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Perito en Informática:
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Registrado
en el CIME (Colegio de Ingenieros Mecánicos y
Electricistas).
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Graduate Studies
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1965-1968
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Electrical
Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, Mass. USA.
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Scholarship:
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Research Assistant
in Project MAC (Now, Laboratory for Computer Science), MIT, as a graduate
student.
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Master of Science
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Master of
Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science), MIT. February
of 1967.
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Thesis:
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Some aspects
of Pattern Recognition by Computer.
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Area:
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Computer Science,
Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing.
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Thesis Director:
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Marvin L.
Minsky.
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Ph. D. Studies
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Ph. D in Computer
Science, December of 1968, MIT.
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Thesis:
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Computer Recognition
of Three Dimensional Objects in a Visual Scene.
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Area:
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Computer Science,
Artificial Intelligence, and Vision.
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Thesis Director:
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Marvin L.
Minsky.
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Languages
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Spanish (native
tongue). English. Italian (read). French (read).
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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES on which I'm
a member
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ACM
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Association for Computing Machinery. USA.
Member # 1110550
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AMC
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Academia
de Investigacion Cientifica; later, Academia de Ciencias in Mexico (AMC,
or Mexican Academy of Sciences).
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AI
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Academia de Ingenieria (Mexico)
(Mexican Academy of Engineering). Member (since 1999). In 2001, AMI
and ANI merged to become AI (Academy of Engineering).
See the invitation to the ceremony
due to the entrance of A. Guzmán to the Academy (in Spanish)
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AMICEE
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Asociacion
Mexicana de Ingenieros en Comunicaciones Electricas y Electronica (Mexican
Association of Engineers in Electrical Communication and Electronics).
Mexico. [1983-1985: Also, its Technical Secretary]
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ANI
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Academia Nacional de Ingenieria
(National Academy of Engineering). Mexico. Founder.
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1994. Colegio de Ingenieros en
Comunicaciones y Electronica (Association of Communication and Electronic
Engineers). Mexico
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CIME
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Colegio de Ingenieros Mecanicos
y Electricistas. Mexico. An association of Electrical and Mechanical
Engineers.
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1997: Science Board of Goverment. Mexico.
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IEEE
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers. USA. Senior Member # 5230388 |
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NYAS
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New York Academy of Sciences. Member
(since 1998). USA # 473151
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1984: National System for Researchers.
(1984: Level 3. 1998: Level 2; 2002: Level 3).
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HONORS
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New
York City.
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Feb
2003. The Association
for Computing Machinery named me nombró "ACM Publications
Board Member".
See notification letter.
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New
York City. (Induction ceremony: San Diego, CA. June 2003)
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2002.
The Association for Computing Machinery nemed me Fellow of
the ACM, “For contributions to image understanding and shape similarity,
and for advancing the state of the art and the education in Computer
Science in Mexico.”
Further information:
http://www.acm.org/awards/fellows_citations/guzman-arenas.html
See the note published on COMMUNICATIONS journal
"ACM Fellows" and notification letter.
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New
Jersey,USA.
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2002.
I am in “Who is Who in The World” 2002 (Marquis Who
is Who).
See
diploma
See notification letter
See
my biography published on "Who's Who in te World" 2002
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Mexico
City
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Invitation to have dinner with the
president of Mexico, Dr. Ernesto Zedillo due to the visit of the Minister
of Island, 1999.
See invitation
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Mexico
City
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May
1997. “Lazaro Cardenas” Award. Highest award conferred by IPN. Given
by Dr. Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico.
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Mexico
City
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December 1996. National Prize of Science,
in “Technology and Design” field. Award given by Dr. Ernesto Zedillo,
president of Mexico.
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Salina
Cruz, Oax. Mexico
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May
1996. “Distinguished Citizen”, recognition given in Public and Solemn
Session by the City Government, due to outstanding trajectory.
See Adolfo Guzmán Speach when
is recognized as Distinguished
Citizen” published on "El Regional" news.
See the recognition certificate
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Mexico
City
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July
1994. National Award in Information System, Given by the Mexican Academy
of Informatics.
See the note published on COMPUTER
WORLD news paper "Adolfo Guzmán, premio al mérito
informático de la AMIAC"
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Kyoto
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Member
of the Award Committee, KYOTO Prize in in Science and Technology. Kyocera
Co. Equivalent in amount to the Nobel Prize.
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Mexico
City
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January 1986. Godfather of the alumni
(generation “Dr. Adolfo Guzman-Arenas”) of Computer Engineers of ENEP-Acatlan,
UNAM. 20 alumni.
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Porto
Alegre
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July
1985. Invited by the Brazilian Society on Computers and IFIP as keynote
speaker.
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Mexico
City
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July
1984. “National Researcher, Level 3” (highest). Recognition given by
the National Researchers System, a Federal Gov’t. organization founded
that year. 1998: After my stay in USA I got back to SNI, this time with level
2. 2002: Level 3.
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Merida,
Mexico
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1983-84.
Vice-President and later, President of Asociacion Nacional de Instituciones
para la Educacion en Informatica (ANIEI, or National Association of Institutions
for Education in Informatics).
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Nueva
York
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1982.
IEEE Senior Member # 5230388
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Morelia,
Mexico
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January,
1982. Awarded with the prize “Alejandro Medina Conference” given for
first time for people with outstanding career in Computer Science.
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Mexico
City
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August,
1979. Godfather of the alumni (“Dr. Adolfo Guzmán Arenas” generation)
of Computer Science Undergraduate Program, UPIICSA-IPN. 50 alumni.
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Paris
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January
1978. Invited to the 100 year anniversary of the Ecole Nationale Supèriéure
des Telecommunications.
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Mexico
City
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August
1977. Honorific _Mention, “BANAMEX Award of Science and Technology”,
Agriculture area, together with other colleagues, for the work “Detection
and quantification of agricultural resources: computerized analysis of
pictures taken from airplane and satellite;” awarded by the President of
Mexico
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Washington
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1973-1986.
Funding Member of the International Committee for Pattern Recognition,
which later became the International Association for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR). I was member of its governing Board until 1986.
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Budapest
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June
1972-75 Member of the committee in Computers at International Federation
of Automatic Control, IFIP.
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Bombay
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January
1971. Invited by the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India,
to participate as speaker in the seminar Visual Mechanisms and Form Perception.
January 25- February 6.
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Uppsala
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September
1968. Invited to work in the Department of Quantum Chemistry, University
of Uppsala, Sweden. Two months
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Pisa
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August
1968. Professor at the NATO Summer School on Automatic photo interpretation
and classification of images.
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EDITORIAL WORK
Editor of Journals
and Books collections
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New
York City
2003:
Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Publications Board. It supervises the publication of all the journals, transactions and magazines of the ACM, including their Digital Library.
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Mexico
City
2000:
Member of the Editorial Science Board, Fund of Economic Culture. “Fondo
de Cultura Económica”. Books.
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Mexico
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1999-to date: Associate Editor, "SCIENCE" (dissemination magazine), published by the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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Mexico
City
1997:
Editor, Collection of Computer Science, Fund of Economic Culture "Fondo
de Cultura Económica“ (editorial); IPN and UNAM (co-patrons). Series
of text and consult books.
1996-2002. Chief Editor, Computación
y Sistemas, Computing Journal disseminated nationally and refereed
for original contributions in English, Spanish and Portuguese .
Mexico City
1997-2002 Founding Member and Editor in Chief, Computación y Sistemas, scientific journal devoted to Computer Science, published by Instituto Politécnico Nacional and UNAM.
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Scottsdale,
Arizona
1986: Associate
editor, Pattern Recognition. So far (2003). Journal. Pergamon.
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Delft
1984: Associate editor
and founder member of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing,
those obligations finished in 1986. Beginning in 1989: Editor in that
area for the mentioned journal.
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Delft
February 1982: Associate
Editor and funder member of the Journal Pattern Recognition Letters.
North Holland Publishing Co. I continue so far (2003)
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Amsterdam
April 1978: Associate editor and
founder member of Journal of Geoprocessing (Geodata, Geosystems
Digital and Mapping). Elsevier Publishing. (This journal not longer exists)
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New
York
March 1971: Associate editor
and founder member of the international journal Computer Graphics
and Image Processing, Academic Press. Now it is named Computer Visión,
Graphics and Image Processing. (I was editor for several years; I am no
longer).
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Home Page Adolfo Guzmán Arenas.
Fecha de publicación 20 de diciembre de 2005.
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