User:Sergio.mujica

Dr. Mujica, received his PhD and MSc degrees, from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of California at Los Angeles. His areas of interest are: the use of Internet, wireless sensor networks, soft information fusion, and the social impact of technology.

Early in his life he became a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and later at Universidad de Santiago, where he made seminal contributions to the creation of the very first academic programs in Computer Science in Chile. In this period he created the International Conference in Computer Science that will have its 28th version in 2009 and was a founder of the Chilean Computer Science Society. He also took part in the first steps leading to the use of electronic mail and the use of Internet in Chile. In the 1980s he did pioneering work at UCLA to create technologies for the development of Collaborative Systems, including design methodology topics and the technology for building distributed object systems. His work was supported by grants from Hughes Aircraft, TRW, AT&T, SUN Microsystems, UNISYS, NCR, and the California MICRO program.

He is a recognized expert in Information Technology and has been a consultant for important business in Chile, in several industrial areas such as banking, publishing, services, and mining, where he has done work in strategic planning of information technology, workflow modeling and implementation, software problem diagnosis, evaluation of systems and computer networks performance, development of applications based on cryptography for security systems and the design and development of web based systems.

Dr. Mujica is a Member and founder of the Sociedad Chilena de Ciencia de la Computación (SCCC), Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and Director of MundoOS. The IEEE has awarded him a recognition diploma for outstanding services to the Chilean Section of the Institute, in which he served as a member of the Board of Directors.