Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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In 1964 Industrial Engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), in 1966 Master in Aeronautical Sciences from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique de Paris (France), in 1972 PhD. from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) and in 1972 License in Informatics from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). From 1966 to 1987 he shared his time between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he taught and researched on Automatic Control, Computer Architecture and Computer Performance Evaluation, and several positions in the industry, mainly from 1970 to 1987 in UNIVAC where he was in charge of computer performance measuring and modelling for tuning and sizing in Spain.
In 1987 he joined the Department of Computer Science of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) where he was Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology until 2010 when he took the retirement and became Emeritus Professor. Between 1979 and 1982, Dean of the Informatics Faculty of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and between 1988 and 2004, Director of the Polytechnic School of the Universitat de les Illes Balears. His research topics are the performance evaluation of computer systems and computer networks. He is author of a book on computer performance evaluation and of more than two hundred peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. He has served as General Chair, Programme Chair and Technical Programme Committee member in International Conferences. He has been awarded with the IFIP Silver Core. He is Life Senior Member of the IEEE, and Distinguished Educator of the ACM. In 2007 he has been awarded in Spain with the José García Santesamases Prize for his professional trajectory and also in 2007 he received the CLEI Honour Prize for his cooperation with Latin America. In 2010 he has been nominated Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay).
