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Ph7five/gda
Born
Giovanni degli Antoni

(1935-03-04)March 4, 1935
DiedApril 9, 2016(2016-04-09) (aged 81)
NationalityItalian
Occupationuniversity professor
Known for
Academic background
Alma materUniversità degli Studi di Milano
Doctoral advisorGiuseppe Occhialini
Academic work
Disciplinephysics, computer science
Sub-disciplinefuzzy sets, information society
Doctoral studentsMaria Gini
Notable studentsMilly 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 First to Second Republic in the 1990s.

Academic life

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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]

Career and Influence

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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]

Awards and Honors

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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]

Works

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  • Office automation: metodi e tecnologie (with Giulio Occhini), ISBN: 978-8821405891

References

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  1. ^ Degli Antoni, Giovanni; Di Pietro, Antonio (1994). "Information Technologies in Law Enforcement" (PDF). Informatica e diritto. 3 (2): 127–139.
  2. ^ Colaprico, Piero (1994-12-04). "Polemiche e accuse il pool resiste, ma..." [Fighting Words and Accusations: The Grand Jury is Holding out, But...]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-03-28. 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.)
  3. ^ "Giovanni Degli Antoni ci ha lasciato". Retrieved 2016-06-26.
  4. ^ "Gianni Degli Antoni Named Professor Emeritus" (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  5. ^ "Università degli Studi di Milano" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  6. ^ Quintarelli, Stefano. "In memoriam: E' Morto Gianni Degli Antoni. Via il cappello e tutti in piedi". Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  7. ^ "Giovanni Degli Antoni Professore Emerito" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  8. ^ "Onorificenza e lectio magistralis del prof Degli Antoni" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  9. ^ "La Statale intitola il dipartimento di Informatica a Giovanni Degli Antoni" (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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Category:Italian computer scientists Category:1935 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Computer science teachers Category:Information science Category:20th-century Italian philosophers