Ernesto M. Morgado is a Portuguese

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and software entrepreneur. He has served as

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Instituto Superior Técnico Instituto Superior Técnico MHSE • MHIP (IST, also known colloquially as Técnico, and stylized TÉCNICO LISBOA) is a public school of engineering and technology, part of University of Lisbon. It was founded as an autonomous school in 1911 ...

(Technical University of Lisbon) since 1992. He was one of the people behind the creation of the

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degree of

(Technical University of Lisbon), in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of

there in 1998.

Early life

Morgado earned a

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mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

(1976) from

(Technical University of Lisbon) and a

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(1981) and a Ph.D. in

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(1986) from

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

Career

He was

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in Millard Fillmore College (

) in 1980 and

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(1981–1984). In 1986, together with João Pavão Martins, he founded SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos, SA, a

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devoted to

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. Together they led the company to develop and deploy

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systems in

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and

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companies throughout

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."CREWS_NS - Scheduling Train Crews in The Netherlands"
AI Magazine article, Volume 19, Number 1 (1998)"TPO: A System for Scheduling and Managing Train Crew in Norway"
Paper published by AAAI (2003) These systems plan and manage more than 20,000 people, affect the life of millions of passengers, and have been recognized by organisations in

and the United States. Morgado is also involved in the

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. He is president of Ernesto Morgado S.A., a

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company founded by his grandfather in 1920. Since 2003, he transformed the company's focus from

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s to

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products, namely high-quality ready meals based on

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. He became president of FERM (Federation of European Rice Millers) at its inception in 2002, president of ANIA (Portuguese Rice Millers Association) in 1990, and vice-president of COTArroz (Portuguese Rice Chain Association) in 2004. At FIPA (Portuguese Food Industry Federation), he is currently, and for the second time, president of the board (1997–2003 and 2009) and served as vice-president of its executive committee (1990–1997) and president of the Control Council (2003–2009). He was a member of CIP (Portuguese Industry Confederation) Council of Presidents (1990–2007).

Author

Morgado is

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References

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