Personal Information

CV in a nutshell

You can have a look at my CV, which is available in html, plain text and pdf format. My Linkedin Public Profile is also available. In a nutshell, here are some information about me:

I got a Diploma di Ragioniere Programmatore in 1993 from the Istituto Tecnico Commerciale E. De Amicis, Rovigo, Italy.
I got a Laurea degree with honors in Computer Science (Scienze dell'Informazione) in 1998 from Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy. I wrote my very first publication (Maintaining Dynamic Graph Properties Deterministically) based on the content of my MSc thesis. My advisor was prof. Giuseppe F. Italiano.
From November 1998 to September 2001 I got a two years grant to work as a software engineer at INFN, the italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics research. I was a member of the BaBar collaboration.
From November 2000 to October 2003 I was a PhD student in Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia. My advisor was prof. Simonetta Balsamo.
I got a PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Computer Science in 2004 from the Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy.
From November 2003 to April 2005 I was a post-doc at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy. My work was supported by the FIRB Project PERF: Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques, Methodologies and Tools. My research interests included: distributed systems, performance evaluation, parallel and distributed simulation.
From 2005 to 2009 I worked at INFN Padova, Italy. From April 2005 to April 2006 I was supported by the European Union EGEE project. From May 2006 to April 2008 I was supported by the OMII-Europe Project, where I coordinated the JRA1/Job Submission and Monitoring task. From May 2008 to october 2009 I was supported by the EGEE-3 Project; specifically, I worked on the CREAM computing element for the gLite middleware.
Since november 2009 I am assistant professor (ricercatore universitario) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy. My research activity in in the area of performance evaluation of systems and cloud computing.

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Things I like...

Programming languages.
Music.
The Linux operating system (of course, Linux rules). I use FreeBSD and Mac OS X as well.
Fishing.
Science Fiction. My favourite books include Rendezvous with Rama by A. C. Clarke, and The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem. My favourite movies include 2001: a Space Odyssey, WarGames, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
History of computing, and reviving old computers (using emulators, or preferably rescuing the real thing from the dump—literally). I helped the Ready64.org site to preserve digital versions of the italian computer magazine Commodore Computer Club by providing scans of some magazine issues I own.

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...and things I don't

Tobacco smoke.
Cellular phones ringing in unconvenient places.
Cars not respecting pedestrians.

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Things I said (mostly in italian...)

L'inglese di questo articolo scorre come una ruota quadrata
Questo articolo è invariante per zoom... che lo veda da lontano o da vicino leggo sempre le stesse cose
Non funzionerà mai
Le pubblicazioni sono come il maiale: non si butta via niente This is just one of the (countless) corollaries of the Publish or Perish motto of the academic research community. I suggest the interested reader to look at Publish or perish: why the current publication and review model is killing research and wasting your money, by F. Casati, F. Giunghiglia, M. Marchese, ACM Ubiquity. You might also be interested in We are sorry to inform you... by Simone Santini, IEEE Computer, 38(12). Dec 2005. A further article you might wish to consider is Stop the numbers game, by D. L. Parnas.
Basta! Sono stufo di robe che non funzionano!
Va™, and the complementary No Va™
Mai piú senza!

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Some friends on the Web

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Some links I find useful

Books and Libraries

Science Fiction

Linux and friends

Retrocomputing

Privacy and Cryptography

Misc links

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