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Max H. M. Costa received the Electrical Engineer degree from the University of Brasília in 1974, the MSEE degree from the State University of Campinas, Unicamp, in 1977, and the MS-Statistics and the PhD-EE degrees from Stanford University, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. From 1983 to 1988 he was a researcher at INPE, the Brazilian National Space Research Institute. From 1988 to 2003 he worked at GE Corporate R&D Center, in Schenectady, NY, USA. During 1994 he was a Senior Research Associate at NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Since 1995 he has been a Faculty Member at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Unicamp, in Campinas, SP, Brazil. He has held visiting positions at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Microsoft Research, University of New Mexico and TU Munchen. His research interests are in the fields of information theory and signal processing and its applications in communications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and listed as a commonly cited author in http://citeseer.csail.mit.edu/allcited.html.

Max Costa, vous ne le connaissiez pas, vous l’oublierez dans 30s mais ce monsieur (des gars comme ça, je les appelle monsieur) a publié un papier en 1983 expliquant comment transmettre un message sur un support qui est abîmé durant le transport (Writing on dirty paper) tout en étant capable de déterminer comment les retrouver sans tenir compte du support. Il dit même comment écrire les données sous réserve de connaître les dégâts affligés infligés (merci effisk) au support. C’est une métaphore simpliste mais qui résume bien le tout.

M. Costa, bravo, merci.