About our group
Early inhabitants of the South American Andes, the incas, developed and used a sophisticated medium of recording administrative data, the khipu. A khipu is constituted by pieces of strings tied in particular forms (resembling, we would say today, a tree structure) implementing a complex data model. The khipukamayoq was the expert in the creation, update and interpretation of the data coded in the khipus. Invaders in the XV century ordered the destruction of the khipus and hunted the khipukamayoq, temporarily destroying in this way this data management tradition.
The Khipu Center, inspired by the pioneer work of our ancestors, is pursuing the research on data models and information processing in this region.