About
The author started in Computing around the late IBM 1620 computer, installed in 1962, at the then Center for Numerical Calculation of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He graduated as an Electronic Engineer from that School. He undertook postgraduate studies abroad, obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Computing.
He graduated in 1966, and obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1972, Imre is a Professor at USP. His areas of interest are: Pseudovarieties of languages and semigroups, Theory of tropical semiring multiplicity, words, automata and algorithms.