Other Relevant Information

• Invited speaker at: Indiana University at Bloomington (April 1988, May 1992), INRIA-Paris, France (November 1988), Univ. of Paris Nord (November 1988), University of Lund, Sweden (November 1988), Glasgow University (March 1989), National Institute of Health, Washington (September 1989), University of Arizona (January 1990, May 1992), University of Waterloo (May 1990, August 1991), University of Western Ontario (May 1990), Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (June 1990, November 1993, December 1994), Fibonacci Institute, Trento, Italy (July 1990), European Consortium Research Center (ECRC), Munich (July 1990), Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (September 1990), Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (September 1990), Brazilian Physics Research Center (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro (September 1990), Univ. de Campinas, Brazil (September 1990), Univ. de Sao Paulo (September 1990, May 1993), Univ. Técnica Federico Santa María (September 1991), Dagstuhl Research Center, Germany (November 1991), Alcala University, Spain (March 1992), Polytechnic University of Madrid (March 1992, June 1993), Polytechnic University of Catalunya (March 1992), Texas Instruments Lab., Dallas (May 1992), Univ. Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (May 1992), Datapro Technical Institute, Lima, Perú (October 1992), Univ. of Buenos Aires (December, 1992), Univ. Simón Bolivar, Venezuela (January, 1993), Univ. Antenor Orrego, Perú (January, 1993), ESAN, Lima, Perú (January, 1993), Univ. Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia (April, 1993), Univ. de Valladolid (June, 1993), Fundesco (ATI), Madrid (June 1993), Univ. of Toronto (July, 1993), Univ. of Sydney (October, 1993), Univ. of Queensland (October, 1993), SISE Institute, Lima, Perú (November 1993), National Polytechnic University, Quito, Ecuador (November 1993), Univ. de La Plata, Argentina (November 1993, November 1994), Inst. Tecnológico de Costa Rica (February, 1994), CENIAI, La Havana, Cuba (February, 1994), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY (June 1994), Rensselaer Pol. Ins., Troy, NY (June, 1994), Univ. San Agustín, Arequipa, Perú (July, 1994), Univ. Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia (August, 1994), Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Brazil (August, 1994), Univ. Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile (November, 1994) and NTT Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan (January 1995).
• Visiting professor at: INRIA-Paris, France (November 1988), Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain (July 1989), Polytechnic University of Las Palmas, Spain (August 1989), Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (July 1990, November 1991), Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain (June 1991, December 1992, June 1993), IBM Scientific Center, Caracas (July 1991), UNICEN, Tandil, Argentina (December 1992, November 1993), Univ. de Tarápaca, Arica, Chile (February, 1993), Univ. Fed. de Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (May 1993), Univ. de La Plata, Argentina (July, 1993), Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina (July, 1993), Univ. Fed. de Mato Grosso do Sul (September, 1993), and Univ. de Magallanes (December, 1993).
• Co-chair of the program and organizing committee of LATIN'95, Viña del Mar, April, 1995. Program committee chair of the XIII Int. Conf. of the Chilean Computer Science Society (La Serena, October 1993), and the 1st South American Workshop on String Processing (Belo Horizonte, Brasil, September 1993).
• Program Committee member of: Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS'95 (Kingston, Aug. 1995); Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB'94 (Santiago, Sept. 1994) (also in charge of the tutorial program); 21nd SEMISH (Caxambu, Brazil, Aug. 1994); 23rd JAIIO (Buenos Aires, Sept. 1994); XX Latin-American Conference (Mexico City, Sept. 1994); III Iberoamerican Congress on Higher CS Education (Concepción, Chile, Nov. 1994); Latin'92, Sao Paulo, April 1992; and XVIII Latinamerican Conference on Informatics, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, August 1992.
• Organizing chairman of the XI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Santiago, October, 1991.
• Editorial committee member of the following journals: Information Technology for Development (England), Journal of the SBC (Brazil) and Novática (Spain).
• I have been referee for the following journals: Communications of the ACM, IEEE Trans. on Computers, IEEE Trans. on Data and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Journal of Algorithms, BIT/Nordic Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Trans. on Database Systems, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal on Combinatorial Theory (A), Information and Computation, Information Processing Letters, Artificial Intelligence, Random Structures & Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Software-Practice and Experience, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, Acta Informatica, and The Computer Journal; plus various conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, etc). I have evaluated grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (USA), CONICYT (Chile), CONICYT (Uruguay), and Chile/European Community projects. I am also a reviewer for Butterworths, Information and Software Technology and Mathematical Reviews.
• Participation as external reviewer for Ph.D. theses at Univ. Paris 7, Univ. di Roma, Univ. Politcnica de Madrid and Univ. Fed. de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil),
• Several divulgation papers in Chilean magazines and monthly column in Informática.
• Member of the ACM, Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC), EATCS, IEEE, and SIAM.
• My main interest areas for both, teaching and research, are: Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Textual Databases, Graphical User Interfaces, Object Oriented Programming, X-Windows, Symbolic Computation, Computer Graphics, and Operating Systems.
• I am fluent in English and Spanish. I can understand and read Portuguese. I can read Italian and French.
• I love geography, science fiction, and chess. I like to practice tennis, squash and football (soccer).



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Ricardo Baeza-Yates

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