Hugo has been asked to contribute a review of his journey through life and science for the AAPC (Asociacion Argentina Para el Progreso de las Ciencias) series on "Autobiographies of Prestigious Argentine Scientists" that appeared as Issue 6, Number 2 (2018) under the title "Half a Century in Applied Mathematics (Optimisation, Models, Cryptography)." The article (in Spanish) is freely downloadable. The AAPC is an NGO founded in 1933 by the Argentine Nobel Prize laureate in medicine Bernardo Houssay as a precursor to CONICET, and is the leading voice of the Argentine scientific community.