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Claude Berge
French mathematician. He was Director of Research at CNRS and Director of the International Computational Center from 1964 to 1968. Since then he teaches on the 3° cicle at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. He has published more than a hundred articles and nine books on mathematical science, art, and literature.
Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaraguan poet and writer. He is one of the most important Latin American poets of the second part of the XX century. His many books include: Salmos (1969); Love (1981); Homenaje a los indios americanos (1972); In Cuba; Nueva antología poética (1985). His book Cántico cósmico is presently being published in México and Nicaragua simultaneously.
Michael Capobianco
Professor of Mathematics at St. John's University, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews. He is author of Lectures in the Theory of Statistical Inference and co-editor of Recent Trends in Graph Theory. His main areas of research are graph theory-statistics and contemporary Latin American literature. He has published in Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Sociology, Social Networks, Chinese Culture, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, International Fiction Review, Ometeca, and many others.
António Gedeão
Portuguese poet, playwright, and essayist. He has published many books of poetry, among them, Movimiento Perpétuo, Teatro do Mundo, Máquina de Fogo, Poema para Galileo , Linhas de Força. His book O Sentimento Científico em Bocage won the Bocage Prize in 1965.
Beatriz González-Stephan
Professor of Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela. She was a research fellow at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Rómulo Gallegos" from 1977-86. Her work has been published in Neohelicon, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Escritura, Ideologies and Literatures, Texto Crítico, and many others. Her books include Contribución al estudio de la historiografía literaria hispanoamericana (1985); La historiografía literaria del liberalismo hispanoamericano del siglo XIX (1987), Problemas de historiografía literaria latinoamericana: una puesta al día (1989), and La duda del escorpión: la tradición heterodoxa en la narrativa latinoamericana, in press. González-Stephan was recipient of Premio Casa de Las Américas in 1987.
Roald Hoffmann
Polish-American chemist. He is John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science at Cornell University where he is engaged in teaching and research in theoretical chemistry. His research interests are wide ranging and his work has earned numerous honors and awards, including the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Kenichi Fukui. Hoffmann has published two volumes of poetry The Metamict State (1987) and Gaps and Verges (1990).
Nelson R. Orringer
Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. His areas of substantive research are Hispanic Philosophy and Literature, Modern Spanish Thought and History of Ideas, Twentieth Century Spanish Literature, and Comparative Studies of Philosophy and Literature. He has written extensively on Ortega, Unamuno and Francisco de Ayala. Among his important studies are Ortega y sus fuentes alemanas (1979), Nuevas fuentes germánicas de ¿Qué es filosofía? (1984), and Unamuno y los protestantes liberales (1985).
Luis Moniz Pereira
Portuguese scientist and poet. He is professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a graduate of the University of Brunel in England and the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. In 1984 Dr. Moniz Pereira received the Gulbenkian Prize in Science and Technology. He is director and founder of the Center for Artificial Intelligence of Univova (Instituto de Desenvolvimiento de Novas Tecnologias), and was the editor and founder of Logic Programming Newsletter (1983-87). He is a founding member of the Comissão Científica of the following international publications: New Generation Computing (Omsha, Japan); The Journal of Logic Programming (Elsevier, Holland) and Journal of Automated Reasoning (Reidel, Holland). He has a large number of articles published.
Elizabeth Anne Socolow
American poet and writer. In 1987 she won the Barnard Women Poet's Series Award and in 1988 her book Laughing at Gravity: Conversation with Isaac Newton was published. She has coordinated and introduced the Reading Series of the Arts Council of Princeton, and was a founding member of the US 1 Poets' and Writers' Cooperative of New Jersey. She is currently the poetry editor of the Publication of the Society for Literature and Science.