Antonio Albano

Personal Information

• Date and place of birth: March 1, 1945 - San Mango (Avellino), Italy.
• Marital status: Married with two children, Laura and Andrea.
• Education: Doctor Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, December 1968.

Professional Experience

• From 1969 to 1971 I was Research Associate at the Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione (CNR), Pisa.
• From 1971 to 1987 I was Assistant Professor, and subsequently Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy.
• From October 1987 to November 1990 I was Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy.
• From November 1990 I am Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy.
• From September 1972 to August 1973 I was Research associate at the Department of Computer Science, New York University.
• Sabbatical  semesters were spent as visiting professor at the
• Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
• Escuela Superior Latino Americana de Informatica, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
• Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.

Research Activities

• Over the years I have worked in the area of image processing, computer aided design, artificial intelligence, and databases, in particular database programming languages.
• I am author of several journal articles and conference papers in these areas, author and co-author of four books (in italian), and co-editor of the books
• Computer-Aided Database Design: The DATAID Project, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985,
• Persistent Object Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
• I have been member of program committes of several international conferences and workshops (VLDB, DBPL, POS, etc.)
• I am currently engaged in research in object-oriented database programming languages and languages for semi-structured data.

The research activity on database programming languages has been supported by two research projects financed by the italian Research Council (CNR), by a project financed by the italian Ministry for Research and University (MURST, Interdata Project), and by the following projects financed by the European Community: ESPRIT Basic Research Action FIDE 3070, ESPRIT Basic Research Action FIDE2 6309, and Esprit Working Group 22552 - PASTEL. The current research activity on Type Based Models and Query Languages for Web Data is supported by MURST, DataX Project.

Honors

• Best European Paper Award, 17th Int. Conf. on VLDB, Barcelona, 1991, for the paper “A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Type  Object-Oriented Database Programming Language”.