[picture shot at CWI, in the old 1996 circa]
[ Work, Press and Discussion, Life, In Memoriam ]
KEYWORDS:
Innovation, information, innovation, information....
[ Work, Press and Discussion, Life, In Memoriam ]
KEYWORDS:
Innovation, information, innovation, information....
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October 2004: Proud winner of the
TR100
award, given to the world top 100 young innovators in technology! |
Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua (UNIPD).
Contact data:
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics University of Padua (UNIPD) Via Trieste 63 35121 Padova, Italy Tel: +39 049 8271351 Fax: +39 049 8271499 Email: massimo@math.unipd.it
WHAT I care most of: information, in all varieties.
WHAT have I done in the past? A past short biography is available.
WHAT am I working on?
Well, lot of things (maybe too many...but there are too many interesting
things to do...). Among others, I'm currently focussing on XML, semantic
web (see Metalog for example),
privacy, query languages, search engines, information retrieval, knowledge
management, social technologies, mobile technology, complex systems,
counter-terrorism,
small-world systems.
I HAVE been in W3C's
Technology & Society Domain, and
partly in the Architecture Domain as well. The Director of W3C is Tim
Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web.
I've been the chief editor of P3P (Platform
for Privacy Preferences), the XML world standard for privacy
on the Web, and co-author of the companion
APPEL specification.
I've been the initiator of the Query Languages effort at W3C (see
for instance QL'98). I started
the XML-Query project (of which
I've been the W3C contact for quite a number of years...), deemed to develop
the world standard for querying XML, and finally provide the due integration
between the Web and the database world.
The next step that I'm currently involved, is the next layer for the Semantic
Web, the query/logical layer: this will finally provide the needed
tools to showcase the real possibilitites of the Semantic Web, allowing
intelligent queries to be performed on the Web, and intelligent information
flows to be specified for reuse.
Meanwhile, I have been involved in W3C's Web Ontology effort (OWL),
which is bringing the Semantic Web to its next expressive layer. Going on
to even more innovative layers, I have been co-founder, and currently sitting
in the Executive Committee, of the European Commission Network of Excellence
on Web Reasoning, REWERSE.
I have been W3C's responsible for the IEEE Internet Best Practices Activity,
been chair and/or pc member in various events; for example, chair of
Query Languages'98 (QL'98),
in the Program Committee of the
Eighth International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW8), of the Nineth International World
Wide Web Conference (WWW9) in Amsterdam, Vice-Chair at
WWW10; finally, I'm scientific/strategic
consultant for a variety of organizations and entities.
Recent months till 2005 (various picks):
program committee of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA2004), program committee
of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2004), program committee
of the Sixth International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based
Applications & Services (iiWAS2004), program committee of the WWW/Internet
2004 Conference, program committee of the 2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Reasoning
(PPSWR2004), program committee of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Web Intelligence (WI 2004), invited keynote at the Second
International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust 2004), invited
keynote at the 7th International Conference on Current Research Information
Systems (CRIS 2004), invited keynote at the 2004 Symposium of the
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA),
program committee of the 2005 International Workshop on Interoperability
of Web-based Educational Systems, program committee of the International
Workshop on Ubiquitous Web Systems and Intelligence (UWSI 2005), program
committee of the 4th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2005),
program committee of the International Workshop on Automated Specification
and Verification of Web sites (WWV 2005), program committee of the 2005
International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'05), vice-chair of the
IEEE/WIC/ACM 2005 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05), program
committee of the Seventh International Conference on Information Integration
and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2005), program committee
of the 2005 W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, program
committee of the International Symposium on Social and Organizational Informatics
and Cybernetics (SOIC 2005), program committee of the Third International
Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR 2005).
I'VE been doing research in a variety of fields. Here are some of my publications. Relatedly, see my opinion on patents.
YOU are more than welcome to
email me for general discussions
and requests, but please be patient as I might have slow response time because
of heavy workload.
Warning Note: there is a very small chance that your email
will never arrive to me, due to the multiple spam filters I am
(necessarily) using. So, if I don't reply at all and too much time passes,
please try to resend the message, for instance changing the subject. Apologies
in advance, spam is the havoc of these modern times...
PRESS: recent interviews, both biographical and discussions on Internet and the Web, Search Engines, Semantic Web, Complex Systems, appeared for example in: Sole 24 Ore, Diario, La Nuova Venezia, Il Mattino di Padova, La Tribuna di Treviso, Rai Radio 3, Rai International, Canada CBC Radio One, Delta magazine, la Repubblica, Radio Vaticano One O Five Live, Il Gazzettino, Rai Radio 2 (Caterpillar).
[Whoever read the interview to the Corriere dated 2 Nov 2008, please see the disclaimer (italian only).]
Per chiunque abbia letto l'intervista del Corriere datata 2 Novembre 2008, per cortesia date un'occhiata alla precisazioni.
If you are a journalist, the best way to get in touch with me is email, see above: that reaches me everywhere I might be.
NOW, (ok, quick, clock is running), some other info of minor importance, on my personal side.
SINCE the very beginning of the WWW (well, I do web research, after all...), in 1993, I've been maintaing a personal WWW page. If you are interested in non-work things, i.e. knowing a bit more of me, my interests etc., you can still visit the last archived version:
HERE IT GOES
[archived 2001 version]
AND, well, regarding my photo on this page, don't be scared, I'm usually not that serious...
Historical: I was one of the organizers of the 1997 Nobel Prize Dario Fo's Performances at MIT, one of the coolest events of 1997. Check it out!
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In memoriam: my father
Orfeo (left, younger in the picture) recently died, after a long struggle first against a rare disease (DAVF), misdiagnosed for years (data available to help similar cases) and finally discovered and recovered (although ending in a wheelchair), soon afterwards, incredible destiny, followed by lung cancer. Thanks, dad, you were and are a marvellous person, who taught me lot of things, first of all honesty, happiness, joy, and the need to think with our mind: I owe most of what I am to you. I will miss you, your smile, your thoughts. You didn't deserve such a terrible and painful end. |
Massimo Marchiori