(September 19, 1930 – August 4, 2017) Spanish-American electronics and computer engineer. Born in Pamplona, Navarra, in 1930 and raised in Ansó Aragón, until he was 9 years old. He then moved to Zaragoza, Aragón where he did his secondary education in the Institute Goya and later his university education in the University of Zaragoza where he obtained the degree of Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas in 1952. During 1952-56 he moved to Madrid where he worked as a research engineer in the Laboratorio y Taller de Investigación del Estado Mayor de la Armada (LTIEMA). He emigrated to the US in 1956 with his wife Nieves, and enrolled at CMU as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1959.
