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Nivio Ziviani
Born (1946-08-27) August 27, 1946 (age 78)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
UFMG
Occupation(s)computer scientist, entrepreneur, professor
Known forAkwan Information Technologies
Miner Technology Group [pt]
AwardsPrêmio SBC de Mérito Científico [pt] (2011)
Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico - Comendador [pt]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUFMG
Doctoral advisorGaston Gonnet
WebsiteNivio Ziviani

Nivio Ziviani (Belo Horizonte - Brazil, August 27, 1946) is a Professor Emeritus[1] at the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, 1982.[2] Nivio Ziviani is well known for his research in computer science,[3] mainly focused on Information Retrieval, Algorithms and Web Recommender Systems,[4] as can be seen in his DBLP[5] and Google Scholar.[6] He is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences[7] and the National Order of the Scientific Merit in the class Comendador [pt].[8] In 2011 he received the Prize of Scientific Merit of the Brazilian Computer Science Society.[1]

Nivio Ziviani is author of the following books about algorithms:

  • 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).

He was the creator of one of the first search engines.[1] He co-founded the Miner Technology Group in 1998, which was acquired by Group Folha de S.Paulo / UOL in 1999, and a search engine company called Akwan Information Technologies in 2000, which was acquired by Google Inc. in 2005[1] - an acquisition that became worldwide news. With Akwan, Google bootstrapped its R&D Center for Latin America,[12][13] which is located in Belo Horizonte. Nowadays he is also co-founder and the Chairman of the Board of Zunnit Technologies,[14] a start-up company focused on software for recommending items of interest to Web users, and co-founder of Neemu.

At UFMG he coordinates the Laboratory for Treating Information (LATIN),[14] and is co-founder of the Information Retrieval Group at UFMG. He has co-authored over 100 refereed papers and 2 books in algorithm design and information retrieval, the latter his primary area of research. Nivio Ziviani was the General Co-Chair of the 28th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval[15] and co-founder and member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE).[15][16]

Research Impact

As a result of more than 30 years teaching and researching[17] he has a great list of graduate students and research projects. One example of his research projects with great impact is the C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library (CMPH),[18] which is an open source library with more than 10,500 downloads.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Professor da UFMG recebe prêmio de mérito científico da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação", Estado de Minas, 2011
  2. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at Mathematics Genealogy Project", Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Professor da UFMG, Nívio Ziviani recebe prêmio nacional por mérito científico, 2011
  4. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at ACM", Association for Computing Machinery
  5. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at DBLP", DBLP
  6. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at Google Scholar", Google Scholar
  7. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences", Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  8. ^ "Nivio Ziviani at Ministry of Science and Technology (Brazil)", Ministry of Science and Technology (Brazil)
  9. ^ Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Pascal e em C
  10. ^ Diseño de Algoritmos com implementaciones en Pascal y C
  11. ^ Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Java e C++
  12. ^ "Google compra empresa brasileira de busca", Universo Online, 2005
  13. ^ Google monta base em Minas Gerais
  14. ^ a b "Accurate Indication", Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, 2012
  15. ^ a b "28th SIGIR", Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
  16. ^ SPIRE 2012
  17. ^ Nivio Ziviani's Lattes
  18. ^ "CMPH", SourceForge
  19. ^ "CMPH Download Stats", SourceForge

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