Luis Guillermo RESTREPO RIVAS

Knowledge Engineering , Artificial Intelligence
Business Applications for Knowledge Management, problem solving and optimization

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Electronics Engineer from the Pontifical Bolivarian University
1976-1996: Planning engineer at Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P.
1996-1999: Internet development engineer at the Internet Service Provider www.epm.net.co, now renamed www.une.net.co
Internet trainer for in-house refresher training on telecommunications at Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P.; Several times teacher of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Saint Buenaventura and Eafit University, Medellín. Writing guide texts about Internet for the multimedia production Immersion: 600 megabytes of journey into the Cyberocean produced by Neuromedios.
Year 2000: Teacher of Artificial Intelligence and Internet at the J.I.C. Colombian Polytechnic, Medellín. Teacher of Expert Systems at the Specialization on Automatic Systems at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
Year 2001: Teacher of Knowledge Engineering at Eafit University. Teacher of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Saint Buenaventura, Medellín.
Year 2002: January, instructor of the Course-Workshop Effective and Efficient Internet Utilization for a group of employees at Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P.. Researcher at the Direction of national and International Cooperation of the J.I.C. Colombian Polytechnic, Medellín. Writing some documents to support the accreditation of the Informatics Engineering program of the J.I.C. Colombian Polytechnic.
Year 2003: Translations English-Spanish and Spanish-English, and other projects with the software company Neuromedios. Teaching the course Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering in Business and consulting on Artificial Intelligence applied to Optimization Problems at Eduardo Botero Soto & Co. Ltd., Medellín. Member of the Consulting Team contracted by Colciencias to assess the performance of the National Project for Training and Certification in Information Technologies, in the city of Medellín, and editor of the final report. Teacher of Artificial Intelligence (2^nd semester) at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
Year 2004: Member of the Consulting Team contracted by Comfenalco Antioquia to make a technology foresight study aimed at the slection of new technical training programs to be established by Comfenalco Antioquia.
- Teacher of Artificial Intelligence (2^nd semester) at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
During 2004 and 2005: Reviewer of articles of the journals: IPSI Transactions published by IPSI BgD (New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Belgrade), and Revista Ingeniería y Ciencia published by EAFIT University(Medellín).
Year 2005: At the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín, teacher of Artificial Intelligence and teacher in the Qualifying Course on Intelligent Computing. At the University Institution Colegiatura Colombiana: Member of a Task Force comissioned to make a study and proposal for renewing the curricula and for internationalization of its school of Organizational Communications with emphasis on International Relations; coauthor of the sudy Prospective Vision for the Colegiatura Colombiana, and -during october and november- teacher of Virtual Organizations at the school of Organizational Communications with emphasis on International Relations.
Year 2006: At the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín, teacher of Artificial Intelligence
First semester of 2007:
- From march to august: Member of the Consulting Team contracted by Confecoop Antioquia to make an Education Model for Cooperatives.
Second semester of 2007: Teacher of Artificial Intelligence at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.

INTERNET
Some Advice for Effective Search in Internet (in Spanish)	HTML Page

Business Models in Internet (in Spanish), My taxonomy based in the cooperation and/or competition combinations of the various participating agents.	PDF Document





ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ROBOTICS and related subjects
Basic Thematic Taxonomy of Artificial Intelligence (in Spanish)	PDF Document

Elements of Cybernetics (in Spanish) Work at the university to get my engineering degree.	Reference at the university library

An Introduction to Machine Vision (in Spanish) This is part of the lecture "Sighted Machines" given on August 5^th, 1989 at the "Andean Workshop on Expert Systems and Robotics" in the city of Medellín. A book with the proceedings from this workshop was published by the Eafit University Press, August, 1989.	HTML Page

Tutorial on Expert Systems (in Spanish)	PDF Document

An Introduction to Machine Learning (in Spanish)	PDF Document

Philosophical Attitude and Technological Status of A. I. Research (in Spanish), Journal of The EAFIT University (ISSN 0120-033X), No 62, p. 15-21, Medellín, Colombia.	PDF Document

CLOS: Object System of the LISP language (in Spanish), Journal "Informática al día", No 104, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document

Artificial Intelligence Glossary (in Spanish), AUC Journal, No 75, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document

Some computational approaches for simulating Creativity, (in Spanish), Journal "Informática al día", No 78, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	GIF.zip Document

Introduction to Fuzzy Sets (in Spanish), Presentation for students specializing in Biomedical Engineering, Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín, Colombia, November 27, 2001.	PowerPoint Presentation

Robots, the revolution of the machines (in Spanish), Article by journalist Natalia Estefanía Botero, published in the newspaper El Colombiano. It has some of my opinions on this theme. Medellín, Colombia, September 12, 2004, page 1e.	PDF Document

PHYSICS
Gravnetic Field Theory	HTML Page

Timetable on the Life-spans of Remarkable Physicists	PDF XLS.zip

Scale of Sizes in the Universe (in Spanish)	GIF Graphic

At 120 years after Michael Faraday (in Spanish), Journal: Electrónica Fácil (ISSN 0120-6842), N^o 39, p.7-10, Publisher: Divulgación Técnica Electrónica (DITEL), Medellín, Colombia. (on the life and contributions of M. Faraday to the science of electricity)	PDF.zip Document

INTERNACIA FIZIKO My portal on Physics in The International Language	Fiziko


COMPUTING and INFORMATICS
Some thoughts on the instruction of Informatics Engineering students (in Spanish), Considerations on three basic topics which must not to be neglected during the education of future informatics engineers.	PDF Document

Some thoughts on the instruction of Informatics Engineering students (in English). Translation of the above article.	PDF Document

Computing and Communication Technologies in the Enterprise (in Spanish)	PDF Document

Some views on the Effects of Advanced Automation on Employment (in Spanish), Journal "Auditoría", No 10, Empresas Públicas de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.	PDF Document

Glossary of Image File Formats (in Spanish), Journal "Informática al día", No 95, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document

Roots of the Objet Orientation (in Spanish), Journal "Informática al día", No 89, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document

Multimedia: The Dream and the Bricks (in Spanish), Journal "Informática al día", No 86, Computer User's Association (AUC), Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document

The Computer in Movie-making (in Spanish). Coauthored. Journal "Universidad de Medellín", No 52, University of Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.	PDF.zip Document
Some Glances at the Future (in Spanish)	PPS.zip Presentation

A University toward the Knowledge Society (in Spanish). Coauthored. Sent to the INTERTECH 2002 Conference of The American Society for Engineering Education.	PDF document

A University toward the Knowledge Society (in English), Translation of the above article. Sent to the INTERTECH 2002 Conference of The American Society for Engineering Education.	PDF document

An Experience in the Evaluation of E-learning for I.T. Training and Certification Coauthored. Presented at the International Conference on Advances in Internet Technologies and Applications (CAITA 2004), at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, 2004.07.8-11.	PDF document

Caricature on Programming Languages I drew it in 1985. Click on it to see a larger image:


Some of my publications in The International Language

Skribitaj Pensoj, my Blog.	blog

Artificial Intelligence, FOKUSO journal, HU-ISSN 0237-8094, ISBN 9635711611, N-ro 87/2 (pages 20-24), Hungarian Esperanto Association, Budapest, 1987.	PDF Document

A Curve-fitting Algorithm for Curves with more than two Parameters using "least squares", at the Interkomputo'82 Conference, Neumann János Számitógéptudományi Társaság, Budapest, 1982, ISBN 9638431253 / 963843127 X. (pages 91-93)	GIF.zip Document

Short Article on Machine Translation, From a lecture given in 1992.	HTML Page

On the Technical and Scientific Terminology in Esperanto, Lecture given at the 4th Pan-american Esperanto-Congress, held in Bogotá, Colombia, 1999.	PDF Document

Lecture: A Look at some Technological Trends, Given at the 9th Colombian Esperanto-Congress, held in Medellín, Colombia, 2003.	PDF Document

Lecture: The Global Village: Main Factors	Paŭerpoint

History of The International Language in Colombia 1909-2000	HTML Page

The Internet Opportunity of Esperanto, Esperanto magazine, ISSN 0014-0635, N-ro 1155/1 (pag. 11), Universal Esperanto Association, Rotterdam, January 2003.	HTML Page

Voy a Aprender La Lengua Internacional: Esperanto, Textbook on Esperanto for speakers of Spanish, 71 pages, Galaxia press, Medellín, 1981.	Now this one isn't online

Translated Literature	HTML Page

Records of my works held in the International Esperanto Museum, at the Austrian National Library, Wien, Austria.	HTML Page

PHOTOGRAPHY
I and Photography Some facts about me as an amateur photographer, and some samples of my photographic work.	Photoalbum

FAVORITE INTELLECTS
Intelectos Predilectos Simple gallery of intellectuals whose brilliant ideas cause my admiration. (In Spanish).	HTML Pages

SCHEDULE
1990 June	Lecturer on Expert Systems at the "Informatics in the 90s"Conference, arranged by the Procesa company, in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I was part of a group of colombian lecturers called by the Computer Users Association, of Medellín. The others were: León Jairo Madrid from ISA, Omar García Palencia from Eafit University and Roberto Pardo Silva from Unisoftware.
1999 Oct. 16 - 17	Judge at the robotics competition: Robotics Olympics GRIAL 1999 organized by the Automatics Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Held at the Exhibition and Convention Center of Medellín, Colombia
1999 Oct. 25 - 28	Attendee at the convention and exhibition on Internet services: ISPCon Fall 99 organized by Penton Media. Held at the McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA
1999 Nov. 8 and 2000 Jan. 17		Interviewed in the program Operation"City" of the urban TV channel TeleMedellín, on the not censured access to information from Internet See: video1.mpg and video2.mpg
2000 Mar. 11 - Apr. 15	One of the lecturers at the Science 2000 course, organized by The Museum of Antioquia University. Subjects: Microworld, Nanotechnology and the Future of Computing Read the Document (In Spanish, 8 pages, 27 KB, pdf format)
2000 Sep. 5	Attendee at the Seminar Trends in Scientific Research for the new Millennium organized by the Cooperative University of Colombia with sponsorship by McGraw-Hill Inter-american and the University Foundation María Cano. Lecturers: Roberto Hernández Sampieri and Carlos Fernández Collado, from Mexico.
2002 Apr. 29-30	Attendee at the Fifth Workshop on Systems Renewal and Adaptation (TRyAS), National University of Colombia, Medellín branch.
2002 Oct. 18	Lecturer on Artificial Intelligence at the Technical Day of the Informatics Engineering program of the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
2002 Nov. 2	Lecturer on Artificial Intelligence at the Robotics Olympics GRIAL 2002 organized by the Automatics Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
2003 Nov. 6-8	Attendee at the Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CIIC 2003), National University of Colombia, Medellín branch.
2004 March 3-31	Professor of the course: Artificial Intelligence for Electronics Engineers, Pontifical Bolivarian University, Medellín.
2004 Dec. 4-5	Judge at the robotics competition: Robotics Olympics A+D 2004 organized by the Automatics and Design Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Held at the Vizcaya Shopping Mall of Medellín, Colombia. See also my chronicles: The day before, First day Second day. There was also a little piece of news in the newspaper El Colombiano.
2005 Mar. 8^th	Speaker on the life and work of Albert Einstein, with the lecture: A Look at Albert Einstein, organized by Comfenalco Antioquia in Medellín, to celebrate the centenary of the Special Theory of Relativity.
2005 July 18	Interviewed for the newspaper El Colombiano on the occasion of the robotic soccer tournament RoboCup 2005.
2005 Aug. 6-7	Judge at the robotics competition: Robotics Olympics A+D 2005 organized by the Automatics and Design Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Held at the Vizcaya Shopping Mall of Medellín, Colombia. See in my blog, written in The International Language, my reports, with pictures and a small videoclip: on the first day and on the second day.
2006 July 29-30	Judge at the robotics competition: Robotics Olympics A+D 2006 organized by the Automatics and Design Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Held at the Vizcaya Shopping Mall of Medellín, Colombia. See in my blog, written in The International Language, a short photo report.
2007 April 3^rd	Lecturer on Artificial Intelligence at the Planetarium of Medellín.
2007 August 2^nd	Lecturer on Richard P. Feynman: "Richard Feynman and Modern Physics" at the Planetarium of Medellín. Download: http://luisguillermo.com/Feynman-LGRR.pdf
2007 September 11	Lecturer on Albert Einstein: "The Universe of Albert Einstein" at the Planetarium of Medellín. Download: http://luisguillermo.com/El-universo-de-Einstein.pdf
2007 October 6	Judge at the robotics competition: Robotics Olympics A+D 2007 organized by the Automatics and Design Group of the Pontifical Bolivarian University. Carried out at the Sports Hall of the University, Medellín, Colombia.
2008 March 25	Lecturer on Kurt Gödel: "The Mathematical Truth in Kurt Gödel" at the Planetarium of Medellín.
2008 April 21	Lecturer on "Space Exploration by Robots" at the Metropolitan Technological Institute of Medellín.
2008 July 8	Lecturer on: "Great Mathematicians" at the Planetarium of Medellín.
2008 September 4	Lecturer on: "Great Physicists: Planck, Einsein, Feynman" at the Planetarium of Medellín.
2008 October 8 and 15	Lecturer on: "Particle Accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider" at the Planetarium of Medellín.
2009 January 20	Lecturer on: "From the atom to the stars with the LHC accelerator" at the Planetarium of Medellín. Downloadable: LHC_por_LGRR_version-2.pps

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