People of ACM European Chapters – Carlos Costa
October 24, 2017
Carlos J. Costa is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Formerly, he worked at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) for 24 years. At ISCTE-IUL he was the director of the Adetti-IUL Research Centre, led the Information Systems Research Group, and was the director of the Free and Open Source Software Master Program. A member of ACM since 2006, in 2008 he organized the ACM SIGDOC 2008 conference in Lisbon. Later, in 2010, he co-founded the ACM SIGDOC European Chapter EuroSIGDOC.
In 2014, Costa motivated some students from ISCTE-IUL to start a Student Chapter, and later became the chapter’s faculty advisor.