Manuel Sadosky

Manuel Sadosky (April 13, 1914 to June 18, 2005) was an Argentine mathematician born in Buenos Aires, widely regarded as the father of computer science in Argentina. As vice-dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires from 1957 to 1966, he was commissioned in 1960 to create the Instituto de Cálculo, which he directed and which housed Clementina, a Ferranti Mercury machine that became Argentina's first research and teaching computer. Forced into exile by the 1966 Noche de los Bastones Largos, he carried computing research to the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas before returning to Argentina, where as Secretary of State for Science and Technology under President Raúl Alfonsín from 1983 to 1989 he founded the Latin American School of Higher Informatics, known as ESLAI. He was married to the mathematician Cora Ratto de Sadosky and was the father of mathematician Cora Sadosky.