(Madrid, 1932)
Mathematician, computer scientist, librarian and information specialist and historian of science. Professor of Automata and Formal Language Theory (Automata Theory and Formal Languages) at the Complutense University of Madrid, he developed the study plan for the Computer Science specialty of the Faculty of Mathematics. He was director of the UCM Computing Center and president of the Spanish Society of Science and Technical History. He collaborated in the launch of the Calculus Institute of the University of Buenos Aires, where the first electronic computer was installed in a South American university center (1960-1964). He was a mathematical advisor in the design of the CEUNS computer at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (1962-1964). He has worked on the application of the linguistic model to the simulation of behaviors and the representation of knowledge through semantic networks. President of the II International Congress of Databases in Humanities and Social Sciences. Author of numerous works, including Computer Art, L'Ordinateur peut-il créer une oeuvre d'art? (IBM Informatique, Paris), Experiences and projects in "Computer Graphics" of the CCUM (Conference on Systems, Networks and Computers, Mexico) and L'art cybernétique (SIGMA 9. Bordeaux). He has also stood out in the field of library automation and digitization, developing the first Spanish automation system for the National Library of Madrid, called SABINA. He has participated in various MediaLab Madrid activities, has written the essay "Networks and owners of knowledge" in the banquete_08 catalog and has been a member of the Banquete Cultural Association.
