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Daniel Sánchez
Department of Computer Science
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Born in
1972, received his M.S. degree in Computer Science in 1995 and his Ph.D. in
Computer Science in 1999, both from the
He is a Permanent Lecturer of the
His current main research interests are in the fields of: Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining, Soft Computing, Ontologies, Computational Linguistics, Theory
of Perceptions, Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Last updated: May, 2010
Intelligent Databases and Information Systems research group (IDBIS)
Approximate Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence research group (ARAI)
“Three passions, simple but
overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search
for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These
passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward
course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings
ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of
life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves
loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks
over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have
sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic
miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this
is what—at last—I have found.
With
equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts
of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to
apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A
little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love
and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But
always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my
heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people
a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and
pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil,
but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This
has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again
if the chance were offered me.”
BERTRAND
RUSSELL