Achievements

1971

first computer scientist awarded CNR fellowship

1972

first master thesis in Science dell'Informazione

1972

first italian research paper on denotational semantics of programming languages

1974

paper describing object-oriented programming methodology

1976

design of a RISC style architecture for object-oriented languages

1978

first italian computer scientist invited at MIT (AI Lab)

1978

development of denotational semantics for concurrent actor language

1979

development of first MIT window system

1979

first spread-sheet (ante-litteram)

1979

first description logic (Omega)

1981

first formal semantics for semantic network formalism

1981

first installation of UNIX 4.1 BSD in Europe (Olivetti, Ivrea)

1982

first heteogeneous Ethernet network in Italy (CSELT, Torino)

1983

first campus-wide fiber optic network in Italy (JRC, Ispra), including development of Unix driver for Proteon token-ring network adapter

1984

realization of largest network of workstations outside the USA (CRAI, Cosenza)

1984

development of theory of "viewpoints" for reasoning with multiple agents and formal solution to the 3 wise-man puzzle

1984

leader of first SME to head an ESPRIT project (MADS P440)

1985

project MADS P440 selected as flagship ESPRIT project

1986

Omega is first ESPRIT product sold in Japan

1986

inventor of the term "taxonomic reasoning"

1986

development of reflective scripting language (Abstract Common Machine) for programming software agents across the network

1986

design of the thread mechanism of the Chorus Operating System

1993

first customisable garbage collector for C++ (CMM)

1994

CMM is used by Sun Microsystems in the development of the language Oak, later become known as Java

1996

Development of Arianna (with Italia Online), the largest search engine for the italian Web

1997

Design of italian National Broadband Network for Research (GARR-B)

1998

Leads a two year long negotiation with Italian Ministry of Communications, for introducing reduced rates for Internet access

1998

Deployment of private fiber-optic network for the University of Pisa (REALTA)

1998

Paper "Categorization by Context" received Best Paper Award at WebNet'98 Conference

2003

Design of italian National Gigabit Network for Research (GARR-G)

2005

Fastest system at the TREC Terabyte track, second best in precision at 10.

2006

Third best system at the TREC Blog Opinion Mining track.

2007

Best dependency parser for Italian at Evalita 2007.

2007

Second best dependency parser at the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Domain Adaptation.

2008

Third (second unofficial) best at the CoNLL 2008 Shared task, combined parsing and semantic role labeling.

2009

Best dependency parser for Italian at Evalita 2009.

2009

Best POS tagger for Italian at Evalita 2009.

Disclaimer

1. The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2005)
2. The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2006)
3. Proceedings the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007
4. Proceedings the Twelfth Conference on Natural Language Learning
5. Proceedings of CoNLL 2008
6. Proc. of Workshop Evalita 2007. Intelligenza Aritificiale.
7. Proc. of Workshop Evalita 2009