José Mira Mira

He obtained his bachelor's degree in Physics in the Complutense University of Madrid in October 1966 he joined the Laboratory of Biocybernetics and Bionics associated to the Instituto de Electricidad y Automática of the Spanish National Research Council and the Depeartment of Electricity of the Faculty of Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.

This Laboratory had been recently created by Professor José Garcia Santesmases, who mentored him in his Ph.D. thesis "Cybernetic Models of Learning", dissertation defended in 1971.

In this epoch, he was strongly influenced by his collaboration with Professor Roberto Moreno-Díaz, who had rejoined the Laboratory of Biocybernetics and Bionics of the Complutense University of Madrid after he returned from the USA, where he had been working as a researcher since 1965, in the Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Warren S. McCulloch.

It was precisely in the beginning of this process (as his wife tells in the preface of the book mentioned here in the footnotes[1]), and because of Professor Mira wanted the thesis to be focused on certain properties of the brain functions, like cooperation and functional sharing, in order to study the correlation between local traumatic injury and the subsequent lack of functionalities, that Professor Mira got to know the eminent Spanish scientist Justo Gonzalo, beginning a close friendship that would last his whole life.

In July 2006, he gave the master lecture of the Artificial Intelligence's 50th Anniversary Conference (Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia de Albacete 2006).