is an Information Technology Architect from IBM Brazil and former Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He has a B. Sc. in Mathematics at UERJ and M. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). M. Sávio, a former Bulletin Board System user since the mid-80s, started his career as a systems programmer at UFRJ in 1988, where he had the opportunity to participate in the first experiments of network access in the following year, with BITNET. In 1992, he was selected as technical support volunteer at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro, where he had the chance to accompany the deployment of the first generally available Internet connection In Brazil. In addition, in the early 90s, he participated as a testing user in the first pilot project from an Internet Service Provider of commercial access in the country.
is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with affiliations in the Graduate Programs in Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department, in the Graduate Program in the History of Sciences, Techniques, and Epistemologies, and in the undergraduate Department of Computer and Information Engineering and Information of the Polytechnic School. He is the author of “Yes, We Have Pasteur: Manguinhos, Oswaldo Cruz and the History of Science in Brazil” (2007). He has held visiting positions at Stanford University (2001–2002), the Deutsches Museum (2009–2010), and the Universität Konstanz (2009–2010) and is an Alexander von Humbolt Foundation Fellow.