Career
He was one of the persons behind the creation of the Computer Science and Engineering degree of Instituto Superior Técnico, in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the same institute in 1998. Between 2002 and 2004 he was the head of this Department and again in 2009, for a two-year term. He is also a software industry entrepreneur.
In 1986, together with Ernesto Morgado, he founded SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos, Société Anonyme, a start up company devoted to the applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Together they led the company to develop and deploy a series of complex software systems in railway and metro companies throughout the world. These systems plan and manage more than 20,000 people, affect the life of millions of passengers, and have been awarded by several prestigious organisations in Europe and the United States of America. He has been awarded a Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in Computer Science (1979) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence (1983) from State University of New York at Buffalo.
João Pavão Martins is also an author and co-author of the following publications:. EPIA-89 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume
390, Heidelberg, West Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1989 (Martins, Justice of the Peace e Morgado, EM).
Introduction to computer Science using PASCAL, Wadsworth Incorporated., 1989 (Martins, J P). An Artificial Intelligence-Based Approach to Crew Scheduling, Proceedings Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications - CAIA 93, 1993 (Martins, Justice of the Peace e Morgado, EM).
Introdução à Programação usando o PASCAL, McGraw-Hill Portugal, 1994 (Martins, J P).
Programação em scheme, India Standard Time Press, 2004 (Martins, J P and Cravo, Maria dos Remédios ). The Chronicle of the Fountain Pen, Schiffer Publishing Limited., 2007 (Martins, J P.
Leite, Luiz, Gagean, António). Meerschaum PipeseBay (1999-2010), www.blurb.com, 2010 (Martins J. P. (ed)).
PipeseBay (1999-2010), www.blurb.com, 2010 (Martins J P).
Parker: An Illustrated History, www.blurb.com, 2011 (Martins J P, Leite L e Gagean A). Sheaffer: An Illustrated History, www.blurb.com, 2011 (Martins J P, Leite L e Gagean A). Lógica e Raciocínio, Cadernos de Lógica e Computação Volume 6, College Publications, 2014,(Martins Justice of the Peace).
Programação em PYTHON: Introdução à Programação Utilizando Múltiplos Paradigmas, India Standard Time Press, 2015 (Martins J P).
