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Angelo Raffaele Meo

Thu, 2009-05-28 13:08 — IMG
picture Prof. Angelo Raffaele Meo has been Full Professor of Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino since 1970. He was the head of "Centro per l'Elaborazione Numerale dei Segnali" at CNR, director of the "Progetto Finalizzato Informatica" (1979-1985) and scientific director of "Centro di Supercalcolo Piemonte" (1991-1996).
He has published more than one hundred papers dealing with computer science. In particular, he investigated switching theory, hardware design, signal processing, speech analysis and synthesis, and pattern recognition.
He has coordinated many academic and industrial national research projects on computer science.
He is president of the Academy of Sciences of Torino.
In 2002 he was called by the Italian Minister of Technology to preside at a Commission entrusted with the task of promoting open source in the Italian Public Administration.