José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho

José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho (1946–1998) was a Brazilian scientist, teacher and researcher.

Professor Castilho

Background

Castilho began his academic life at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul where he studied engineering. After graduation, in 1971, he went to Rio de Janeiro where he obtained his master's degree in 1973 and Phd in 1982 both on PUC Rio University. José Mauro died of cancer in 1998, he was married and father of three children.

Scientific activity

As one of the database and artificial intelligence research pioneers in Brazil, Professor Castilho helped to form a full generation of professionals and researchers in these areas.

In his honor, since 1998, Brazilian Computer Society sponsors the Jose Mauro de Castilho Award which is given to the best paper as selected by the program committee.

gollark: > my current project can compile itself in 300 ms so that's niceClearly I must rewrite all my stuff in your current project.
gollark: Technically, yes, but it's 195 lines of code right now and I feel like that would be more trouble than it's worth.
gollark: My Rust programs take an entire 20 seconds to compile and as I'm used to JS this is very irritating.
gollark: PotatOS did that *several* times on CraftOS-PC some time ago.
gollark: I once had `npm`'s audit thing provide something like 300 vulnerability warnings.


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