El Desarrollo Académico de la Computación en la Argentina y la cooperación Latinoamericana

Jorge Aguirre (1)

e-mails: jaguirre@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar

(1) Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Argentina

Abstract

The Argentine scientific system reached such an important development in the XXth century, that three argentine scientists obtained Nobel prizes, two of which because of the work developed in local research institutes. That was not so, in the field of Computer Sciences. Ten years ago, this was actually an area of vacancy, so much as there were only a pair of doctoral graduates living in the country, while the university population was of about five thousands students. On the other hand, research on Computer Sciences had started very early, around 1957. Only ten years after the first computers were born, the earliest research groups arose and very soon their results began to appear in qualified international media. There were also important initiatives during the following forty years, but most of them were unsuccessful and until the last decade there were not globally significant changes. An explanation for this can be found in the frequent interruptions of democracy by military coups, the lack of state policies and the tendency of argentine leadership to abandon the work initiated by its predecessors. These aspects had a remarkable effect in a discipline that was in the beginnings. This work describes this story of advances and withdrawals, the improvement projects that were set up and the results obtained. The focus is on the course of Computer Sciences in the Academia in Argentina, but historical and social context is also considered, because if not, it would be unable of being understood. Links with other Latin American countries are also mentioned.

Keywords:Computer Sciences History, Latino American cooperation, High level education in Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences research

BibTex

@INPROCEEDINGS{aguirre04:36,
                  AUTHOR       = {Jorge Aguirre},
                  TITLE        = {El Desarrollo Académico de la Computación en la Argentina y la cooperación Latinoamericana},
                  BOOKTITLE    = {30ma Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI2004)},
                  YEAR         = {2004},
                  editor       = {Mauricio Solar and David Fernández-Baca and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas},
                  pages        = {1098--1109},
                  address      = {},
                  month        = Sep,
                  organization = {Sociedad Peruana de Computación},
                  note         = {ISBN 9972-9876-2-0},
                  file         = {http://clei2004.spc.org.pe/es/html/pdfs/36.pdf}
}

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