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Roberto Di Cosmo: "L’amministrazione pubblica è una grande utilizzatrice di software e può svolgere un ruolo molto importante per lo sviluppo di un’industria del software saldamente impiantata nel territorio. In questa conferenza, percorreremo insieme dei momenti essenziali dell’esperienza francese degli ultimi quindici anni, che hanno visto l’emergenza di un’industria del software libero che conta più di 500 imprese e 50000 posti di lavoro qualificato, e pesa 5 miliardi di euro."
Roberto Di Cosmo, after obtaining a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, was associate professor for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and became a Computer Science full professor at University Paris Diderot in 1999. He is currently on leave at Inria.
He has been actively involved in research in theoretical computing, specifically in functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, the semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting and linear logic. His main focus is now on the new scientific problems posed by the general adoption of Free Software, with a particular focus on static analysis of large software collections, that were at the core of the european reseach project Mancoosi.
Following the evolution of our society under the impact of IT with great interest, he is a long term Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998 with the best-seller Hijacking the world, seminars, articles and software. He created the Free Software thematic group of Systematic in October 2007, and since 2010 he is director of IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality.
In 2016, he co-founded and directs Software Heritage, an initiative to build the universal archive of all the source code publicly available.
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Sala Consiglio di Facoltà, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
