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Born | Giovanni degli Antoni (1935-03-04)March 4, 1935 |
Died | April 9, 2016(2016-04-09) (aged 81) |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | university professor |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Università degli Studi di Milano |
Doctoral advisor | Giuseppe Occhialini |
Academic work | |
Discipline | physics, computer science |
Sub-discipline | fuzzy sets, information society |
Doctoral students | Maria Gini |
Notable students | Milly Moratti, Stefano Quintarelli |
Gianni degli Antoni born Giovanni degli Antoni (1935 – 2016), generally known to those who worked with him simply as gda (lowercase), was an Italian information scientist, academic, and polymath, whose background was in physics and, later, computer science. He was one of the founders of computer science as an academic field in Italy, during a career at the Università degli Studi di Milano that ranged from student to assistant professor to dean. He played a behind-the-scenes role in the analysis of data in the Clean Hands investigation[1] spearheaded by Antonio Di Pietro[2] that marked Italy's transition from the FirsttoSecond Republic in the 1990s.
As a student, degli Antoni pursued an interest in electronics to eventually major in statistical physics, at a time when computer science was not yet a recognized field in Italian universities.[3]
At the Università degli Studi di Milano he founded three computer-science departments (now merged) from 1969 to 2001 and the CTU,[4] a support center for multimedia in learning, in 1975.[5]
His greatest impact came not through his academic publications but through his influence on the work of others, including many leading Italian computer scientists, and through his role in helping found key computer-science teaching and research initiatives in Italy and Switzerland. He deeply affected the lives of many of those who studied under him, for some of whom he became a legend.[6]
Honored by the Italian parliament [7] and by the United Nations,[8] he was also given the unusual honor of having a university department named after him at the Università degli Studi di Milano.[9]
Insieme agli esperti di Informatica dell'equipe del professor Gianni Degli Antoni ha avuto una "pensata". (roughly: A lightbulb lit while [the magistrate] was working with Professor Gianni degli Antoni's team of information-science experts.)
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