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Exactly one hundred years ago, Alan Turing was born in London. In 1999, the Time Magazine named him as one of the 100 most important people of the last century: how could it be otherwise, when we are talking about … Continue reading →

To celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, the Computer Science degree program at my university is organizing a series of special lectures, a programming contest and several other activities. If you want to know more about these events, visit … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Leonardo Lanzi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in front of the committee formed by Roberto Baldoni, Linda Pagli, and Emilio Tuosto. Leo’s manuscript contains some of the results concerning the iterative Fringe Upper Bound methods, that is, the methods … Continue reading →

I am just back from SIGCSE 2012. Great conference (almost 1300 participants) with several interesting talks (just look at the invited talk by Prof. Hal Abelson). I have presented the paper on making the Turing machine JFLAP simulator accessible to … Continue reading →

I am very happy to announce that the diameter of the Facebook network has been computed by Backstrom, Boldi, Rosa, Ugander, and Vigna by making use of the iFUB (iterative Fringe Upper Bound) method, developed by Crescenzi, Grossi, Lanzi and … Continue reading →

Who hasn’t The C Programming Language in his/her bookshelf? It is so sad that the death of such a great man has not been reported in the Italian newspapers as much as the death of other famous persons “more or … Continue reading →