Background
Tribolet, Jose Manuel was born on December 20, 1949 in Tancos, Portugal. Son of Jose Salvador and Lucilia Salvador Tribolet.
educator information scientist
Tribolet, Jose Manuel was born on December 20, 1949 in Tancos, Portugal. Son of Jose Salvador and Lucilia Salvador Tribolet.
Tribolet received his 5-Year "Engenheiro" Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971 at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal and in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology his Master of Arts in Electrical Engineering in 1974, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in 1977.
In 1998 he spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. After graduation in 1977 Tribolet started working as researcher at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1979 back in Portugal he was appointed Full Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). In 1998 he became Full Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
In Lisbon he co-founded in 1980 Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, the first not-for-profit, non-state-owned contract based research organization of Portugal, which he presides ever since.
In 2012 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Gallen.
Member of Ordem dos Engenheiros (president, colégio de engenharia informática 1998—2004).
Married Maria Conceição Saramago, February 8, 1947. 1 child Bernardo Saramago.