Achievements

1971
first computer scientist awarded CNR fellowship
1972
first master thesis in Science dell'Informazione
1972
first italian research paper on denotational semantics of programming languages
1974
paper describing object-oriented programming methodology
1976
design of a RISC style architecture for object-oriented languages
1978
first italian computer scientist invited at MIT (AI Lab)
1978
development of denotational semantics for concurrent actor language
1979
development of first MIT window system
1979
first spread-sheet (ante-litteram)
1979
first description logic (Omega)
1981
first formal semantics for semantic network formalism
1981
first installation of UNIX 4.1 BSD in Europe (Olivetti, Ivrea)
1982
first heteogeneous Ethernet network in Italy (CSELT, Torino)
1983
first campus-wide fiber optic network in Italy (JRC, Ispra), including development of Unix driver for Proteon token-ring network adapter
1984
realization of largest network of workstations outside the USA (CRAI, Cosenza)
1984
development of theory of "viewpoints" for reasoning with multiple agents and formal solution to the 3 wise-man puzzle
1984
leader of first SME to head an ESPRIT project (MADS P440)
1985
project MADS P440 selected as flagship ESPRIT project
1986
Omega is first ESPRIT product sold in Japan
1986
inventor of the term "taxonomic reasoning"
1986
development of reflective scripting language (Abstract Common Machine) for programming software agents across the network
1986
design of the thread mechanism of the Chorus Operating System
1993
first customisable garbage collector for C++ (CMM)
1994
CMM is used by Sun Microsystems in the development of the language Oak, later become known as Java
1996
Development of Arianna (with Italia Online), the largest search engine for the italian Web
1997
Design of italian National Broadband Network for Research (GARR-B)
1998
Leads a two year long negotiation with Italian Ministry of Communications, for introducing reduced rates for Internet access
1998
Deployment of private fiber-optic network for the University of Pisa (REALTA)
1998
Paper "Categorization by Context" received Best Paper Award at WebNet'98 Conference
2003
Design of italian National Gigabit Network for Research (GARR-G)
2005
Fastest system at the TREC Terabyte track, second best in precision at 10.
2006
Third best system at the TREC Blog Opinion Mining track.
2007
Best dependency parser for Italian at Evalita 2007.
2007
Second best dependency parser at the CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Domain Adaptation.
2008
Third (second unofficial) best at the CoNLL 2008 Shared task, combined parsing and semantic role labeling.
2009
Best dependency parser for Italian at Evalita 2009.
2009
Best POS tagger for Italian at Evalita 2009.

Disclaimer

Full details on the evaluation results are available in the following proceedings:
  1. The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2005)
  2. The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2006)
  3. Proceedings the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007
  4. Proceedings the Twelfth Conference on Natural Language Learning
  5. Proceedings of CoNLL 2008
  6. Proc. of Workshop Evalita 2007. Intelligenza Aritificiale.
  7. Proc. of Workshop Evalita 2009
Giuseppe Attardi