Short Biography

Gutemberg B. Guerra Filho was born in Fortaleza, CE Brazil in 1973. He was educated at the Military School of Fortaleza, ranked 4^th in the 12^th Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad organized by the Brazilian Mathematics Society (SBM). He received his BS degree in Computer Science from the State University of Ceará (UECE), in 1995, and his MSc degree in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in 1998, where he was ranked 6^th in the 6^th Competition of Master Thesis organized by the Latin-American Center of Studies in Computing - UNESCO. He was a professor at the State University of Ceará (UECE), the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and Lourenço Filho College. Currently, he is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD) under the supervision of Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos. He received the 2002 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award granted by the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences - UMD. His fields of interest include Computer Vision, Computational Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, and Geographical Information Systems. His doctoral thesis involves a Human Activity Language (HAL) for the symbolic non-arbitrary grounding of concrete concepts. The language consists in phonology (i.e. kinetology), morphology, and syntax of the grammatical space embedded in human movement. Each system is induced by learning algorithms proposed for a human activity language. This learning and linguistic framework is used to introduce sensory-motor intelligence as a new step towards Artificial Intelligence.