Awards and Scholarships

• First Prize of the II COMPAQ Award to best paper on CS basic research in Brazil during 1997: R.A. Baeza-Yates, E. Barbosa, and N. Ziviani. Hierarchies of indices for text searching. Information Systems, 21:497-514, 1996.
• Award ``Ramon Salas Edwards'' of the Institute of Engineers of Chile to the best research on engineering on the last 4 years (1994).
• Recipient of a United States Information Service Important Visitor program (June 1994).
• Award ``Manuel Noriega Morales'' of the Organization of American States (OAS) for young researchers in 1993 (Exact Sciences).
• Special mention, University of Chile Award for Young Researchers, 1992.
• Award ``Marcos Orrego Puelma'' of the Institute of Engineers of Chile to the best engineer student graduated in Chile during 1985.
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, May 1988-April 1989.
• Institute for Computer Research scholarship for graduate studies, University of Waterloo, May 1986-August 1988.
• University of Waterloo graduate scholarship, January 1987-April 1988, and January 1988-April 1988.
• Departament of Computer Science Fellowship (Univ. of Waterloo), September 1988-March 1989.
• Information Technology and Research Centre graduate scholarship (Canada), January 1989-April 1989.