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Greetings, my name is Giovanni Tummarello, Ph.D. I live ~~near Ancona, Italy and work at Universita' Politecnica delle Marche~~, in Galway, Ireland where I am Research Unit leader (Data Intensive Infrastructures), Project Manager and Adjunct Lecturer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (National University of Ireland, Galway). DERI, I have strong reasons to say, is probably the coolest place in the world for internet research at this point in time. People are great, administrative support is simply fantastic (and is that important in resarch!), possibilities of all sort abound and you're not selling your soul (and all your ideas) to a corporate owner.

I still cooperate and plan to always do so with the my research group (SeMedia) in order for it to live, prosper and stand as an example of excellence in an otherwise less than enthusiasming overall setting.
I am the ideator and (are or have been) chair of the Semantic Web Application and Perspective workshop series (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), co chair of the Identifiers, Identities and Identifications (I3) workshop at WWW2007, and of the First Workshop on Web Scale Infrastructures for Semantic Mashup, Search and Retrieval at the IEEE Semantic Computing Conference. Also, SeMedia led by me was mentor in a past edition of Google Summer of Code (proposing a load of interesting projects, some of which have actually been implemented).

I regularly serve in program committees of Semantic Web and internet tecnologies conferences, workshops and journals.

Recently, i conceptually fathered and lead the efforts on Sindice - currently the most comprehensive Search Engine for Semantic Web data in the world, Semantic Web Pipes - live fusion and processing of Semantic Web data and the award winning DBin Semantic Web client (now 2.0!). I also worked and remain very interested in Multimedia Metadata. I the past years I created several tools for MPEG7 and participated in the the Multimedia Semantics W3C incubator group.
Also i am the CEO of Sensible Logic a Semantic Web consulting company.
Clearly, I am no HTML wiz :-)

But why "Semantic Web"?

So, it goes by itself that I very involved in Semantic Web research, but why?
I don't do SW becouse, say, at some point somebody proposed it to me. I specifically choose this topic since I believe it is one of the fields which could possibly bring the greatest benefits in the shortest time to a large amoung of the population.
A lot of SW research is often about recycling old ideas or very specific applications with no intention of anyhow provoking a "net effect". The dream is however very different; people would greatly benefit right now from having something *that works* and allows their knowledge to be connected in a way fundamentally better than textual query on Google.

So I am full time working specifically on the aspect which i consider tbe core and the real challenge of the SW initiative: the alchemy of teoretical, technical, economical (in strict and broad sense), social aspects so that it becomes possible, useful, viable, "cool", to use and partecipate to the vision of distributed, machine understandable knowledge across the web.

and then?

Once we mange to get the SW started ( :-)! ) i'll probably move to something else, most probably fundamental research in AI or Computational Intelligence (subsymbolic systems).

Life is one, braincells die everyday, I have been gifted with the skills to do very immaginative innovation and research so I wish to do as much sa possible while i can.

A few resources:

Curriculum Vitae (updated Jan 2008)
Pictures

A foaf file (my personal tribute to practically demostrating the inutility of statically posting foaf files).

About my wife Eva

As a hobby i study as baritone, results may vary.

G.Verdi, Traviata - "Di provenza" (live, 2003)
High Quality (5,7mb),Low Quality (2,9mb)

Mozart, Cosi' fan Tutte - "Soave sia il vento" (reharsal, 2003)
High Quality (2,7mb)

Nostalgic but happy flashBack about stuff i like to remember :-)

Going back a bit (if you're here reading then i am entitled to talk a bit i guess), i have been rather early at computer stuff and potentially interesting ( /me thinks ) projects. Back in 6th grade i had my Amiga and managed to get the first version of the first italian book published on Motorola 68000 ASM. Great day that was. by the end of the 8th grade i had my first commercial software published and distributed (old "Amiga Action Reply Utilities").
I later met a great hacker and musician (Roberto Molinelli) and together we created stuff like "Pango", a commercial Amiga game published in 1990, then ported to PC and to coin op machines, then "Vocom" a full featured kit to develop and run Interactive Voice Systems. (back in 1994)

When i was finally given a 32 bit compiler and a nice graphic environment (Delphi 2!) i rushed to create something i really felt the need to play with, Really. Written quite some time ago (1995? just check my pic on that page :-)) i still receive a lot of really really nice email about it. Some people have ported it, etc.. will create a page about it possibly one day. Following screenshots finally shed light on the fate of blue squares and black balls under variale gravity conditions..

Another evergreen of mine "Fractal Fighters", made in a few days over christmas 96. Shoot a friend or a bot over old fashioned fractal profiles :-)
I then did more games (see MissileCommand1998!, plus others in the "Tommy and Oscar" series from rbw.it).. Utilities, check out this surpisingly polished (and never released) "Shutdown Master", then Web programming, created the document/ecommerce system that handles the activity of the Comitato Termotecnico Italiano, worked on a very cool alternative Shell for windows, opened a clever web community (some sort of Slashdot.it),

flashback ends :-)

To contact me:

g.tummarello@toomuchspam_removeme_gmail.com
giovanni.tummarello@toomuchspam_removeme_deri.org
Ireland (most likely):