The community of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) feels the loss of Professor Roberto Moreno Díazone of the main promoters of the birth of this institution, in 1989, as well as its computer science studies. He was also founder of University Institute of Cybernetic Sciences and Technologies.
On the occasion of his retirement, in 2009, the Faculty, the University School and the Department of Computer Science and Systems of the ULPGC organized an emotional tribute to the former first dean of these studies at the ULPGC and professor specialized in the study of logical neural networks and electronic modelsas well as a whole international reference in cybernetics. Not in vain, Moreno Díaz was the co-creator and promoter of the Eurocast international congresses in Gran Canariasince 1989.
From 1962 to 1965, Roberto Moreno Díaz was assistant professor of Industrial Physics at the University of Madrid. From 1965 to 1968 he was a member of the Staff of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratoryof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he worked on natural and artificial visual processes and their architectures, with Warren S. McCullochone of the fathers of cybernetics. From 1969 to 1979 he was Professor-Director of the Department of Electricity and Electronics at the University of Zaragoza, where he created a research group in neural networks, vision and computing. In 1979 he returned to Gran Canaria and at the ULPGC he founded several of the research groups on Neural Networks, Natural and Artificial Perception, Systems, Neurocybernetics and Robotic Vision, which currently exist.
Moreno-Diaz He is the author or co-author of more than 120 research papers on neurocybernetics, retinal theory and natural and artificial vision. He also directed 22 doctoral theses on these topics and in multimedia.
Among his recognitions, he highlighted his position as an academic of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Madrid, since 1981. He was awarded the Canary Islands Research Prize in 1985; and Founding Academic and Vice President of the Canarian Academy of Sciences. He was also recognized with the first Plaque for University Excellence from the ULPGC. He was Favorite Son of Gáldar and Can de Plata due to the scientific merit of the Island Council of Gran Canaria.
The entire university community of the ULPGC, headed by its Rector Lluís Serra, deeply regrets his death and the loss of this great Canarian scientist.
Rest in peace.