Nivio Ziviani
Nivio Ziviani, a Brazilian researcher born in the city of Belo Horizonte on August 27, 1946, holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the
Federal University of Minas Gerais, 1971, a master's degree in informatics from the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 1976, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the
University of Waterloo, 1982. As a researcher, he is known for his projects in
information retrieval and
recommendation systems. In 2011, he received the Scientific Merit Award from the
Brazilian Computer Society. Ziviani has
Erdös number 2. Currently, he is an
emeritus professor in the
Computer Science department of the
Federal University of Minas Gerais, is a member of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences, he is part of the
National Order of Scientific Merit in the Commendator class, and coordinates the [http://www.latin.dcc.ufmg.br/ Laboratory for Treating Information (LATIN)].
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