Florencia Pollo-Cattaneo has been professor of Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence within the Degree Program in Information Systems Engineering, since 1996, at the National Technological University - Regional School of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is currently also the director of the GEMIS research group and the Master in Information Systems Engineering at the same university. She has been an Information Systems Engineer since 1992, then specialized in the construction of expert systems at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA). She also obtained a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA) and in the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Finally, she graduated as Doctor of Computer Science at the National University of La Plata (Argentina).She has published over 100 academic and industrial papers in noteworthy peer-reviewed publications. She has participated in numerous national and foreign congresses, courses and workshops, as a panellist and organizer. Her concern for the socio-cultural projection of the discipline has earned her the recognition of her opinion as a reference in the specialized scientific press.