Fabio Kon
Brazilian computer scientist
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Fabio Kon is a former director of the Open Source Initiative and a full professor of the department of computer science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.[1] He is the primary contact for the University of São Paulo FLOSS Competence Center.[2]
- ACM Distinguished Member (2016)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018–2019)
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| Doctoral advisor | Roy H. Campbell |
| Doctoral students | Arlindo Flavio da Conceição, Francisco José da Silva e Silva, Raphael Yokoingawa de Camargo, José de Ribamar Braga Pinheiro, Jr., Helves Humberto Domingues, Claudia de Oliveira Melo, Paulo Roberto Miranda Meirelles, Higor Amario de Souza |
Education
Kon studied computer science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and music at the São Paulo State University.[3] He received his master degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP, in 1994 with the dissertation Sistemas de Arquivos Distribuídos.[4]
In 2000, Kon received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the thesis Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems,[5] advised by Ron Harold Campbell.[6]
Career
Awards
- 2016: ACM Distinguished Member[8]
- 2018: Fulbright Visiting Professor Fellowship.[9]
Works
- 2004: InteGrade: object‐oriented Grid middleware leveraging the idle computing power of desktop machines.[10]
- 2013: Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management.[11]
- 2013: The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects..[12]
- 2018: Software platforms for smart cities: Concepts, requirements, challenges, and a unified reference architecture.[13]