Background
Gutiérrez was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
Gutiérrez was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
He graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science He graduated in 2009 with a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical biology from Florida State University.
In civil engineering from the National University of Colombia. He moved to the United States in 2001. Currently he is a professor of bioinformatics and mathematics at the University of Georgia.
That same year, he was awarded a National Grant in Literature by the Colombian Ministry of Culture to write the digital novel El Primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright (The First Flight of the Wright Brothers).
In 1997 and 1998 he received two national grants from the Bogotan Institute of Culture to write the digital novel Condiciones Extremas (Extreme Conditions). These two novels are regarded as the first hypertextual novels in the Spanish language (Sasson-Henry, 2006.
Mecke, 2004. Pajares, 2001). Gutiérrez developed the literary hypertext authoring system known as Literatronica, which uses an Artificial Intelligence engine to adapt the narrative pieces to readers based upon their interaction with the system.