José Tribolet
José Manuel Nunes Salvador (José) Tribolet (born 20 December 1949) is a Portuguese engineer, and Professor of Information Systems at the Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal, who became known for his work on speech coding in the late 1970s. Biography. Tribolet received his 5-Year "Engenheiro" Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971 at the Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, and in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology his MA in electrical engineering in 1974, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1977. In 1998 he spent a sabbatical year as  a Visiting Sloan Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management. After graduation in 1977 Tribolet started working as researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. In 1979 back in Portugal he was appointed Full Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). In 1998 he became Full Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In Lisbon he co-founded in 1980 INESC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, the first not-for-profit, non-state-owned contract based research organization of Portugal, which he presides  ever since. In 2012 he was Visiting Professor at the University of St. Gallen. Tribolet was awarded the IEEE ASSP 1979 Best Paper Award, and the IEEE ASSP 1984 Best Paper Award. Work. Tribolet's research interests are in the fields of "organizational modeling, business process engineering and information systems architecture." According to Tribolet (2007): Publications. Tribolet has published numerous articles. A selection: