University of Cauca Department of Telematics

Alvaro Rendón Gallón Phone: (+57-2) 820-9800 x 2124 Fax: (+57-2) 820-9813, 820-9811 E-mail: arendon Universidad del Cauca - FIET - Popayán - Colombia Department of Telematics 418 (Office shared with Juan Carlos Corrales)

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Teaching Duties

• Real-Time Systems (Optional course, Post-graduate course)
• Telematic Applications and Services (Post-graduate course)
• Modeling and Building of Internet Applications (Master)
• Lectures on Research (Master)
• Current undergraduate projects:
• Paola Andea Mosquera y Maribel Vásquez B. "Management Information System for the Natural History Museum".
• Maruan Abel Zafa y Miguel Angel Zurita. "Mosquera Virtual Museum".
• Undergraduate projects since 1998:
• Nolberto Antonio Devia E. y Glenn Ward B. "Configuration Management of Fixed Telephone Services". Julio 2002.
• Ana María Bados A. "View of Services and Applications based on 3G Systems. Mayo 2002.
• Julio César Vidal y Ricardo Delvasto. "Design and Implementation of a Telematics Application for a Telephone Management System". December 1998.
• Jairo Andrés Díaz S. "Web-Based Management of Data Network Devices". November 1998.
• Amanda Palta. "An Approach to the Communication Protocol for the Intelligent Transportation Systems (NTCIP) from the CORBA Perspective". September 1998.

Research interests

• Coordinator of the Group of Telematics Engineering
• Real-time systems.
• Object Oriented Distributed Systems.
• Software engineering.
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Telecommunication software.
• Computer Networks.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Projects:
• COMDIST - Componentes Distribuidos para la Implementación de Servicios de Telepresencia. (Financiado por el programa iberoamericano CYTED).
• EHAS-Guambía. Servicios de Información Sanitaria para el Resguardo Indígena de Guambía. (Financiado por el Convenio Colciencias-Ministerio de Comunicaciones en la Convocatoria 008-99).
• Territorio e Identidad: Memoria Social y Dialogo de Saberes en el Municipio de Balboa, Cauca. (Financiado por el Convenio Colciencias-Fundación Social y la VRI).
• ARIADNA. Adquisición Remota de Información Ambiental para el Diagnóstico y gestión de recursos NAturales.
• Tampu. Portal Eco-Turístico y Multi-Cultural del Cauca.
• GetWeb. Gestión integrada de telecomunicaciones basada en la Web.

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Other activites

• Editorial Board Member of Revista Colombiana de Computación.
• Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer and Communications societies.
• Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
• Member of ACIEM (Asociación Colombiana de Ingenieros).
• Representative of the University of Cauca to RICOTEL (Red Iberoamericana de Cooperación en Telemática), of the iberoamerican programme CYTED.
• Primary contact of OMG (Object Management Group) at the University of Cauca.

Hobbies

• Music.
• Travelling.

Information about Colombia

• Colombia in Cyberspace.
• Caicedonia, the town where I was born.
• Popayán, the city where I work.

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(Updated by Alvaro Rendón Gallón on January 20th 2003)