Different Individuals, Shared Vision
A multi faceted team – with professionals coming from the fields of research and development, interaction design, open-source software and communication. Yet underlying this variety, there is something that we all share: The passion to create next generation personal computing.
Team
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Giorgio De Michelis
CEO and Founder He teaches Theoretical Computer Science and Interaction Design at the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication of the University of Milano – Bicocca. His research work regards Petri Nets, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Community Systems, Knowledge Management and Interaction Design. He is Vice-President of Fondazione IRSO. He has published over one hundred scientific papers and four books. |
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Lorenzo Bellini
Lorenzo is a system integration and architecture consultant with 8 years of experience in system administration and software, coaching teams, managing computer labs, and has been providing services in learning linux/windows integrated enviroment… |
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Serena De Biasi
Serena has two souls. One is an Information Technology expert and the other is a Visual artist. Before joining Itsme she worked with FIAT, during the launch of the New Fiat 500 as an art director and creator of a D.V.D for training Academy. She has also been involved in the conceptual and production phase of the “casual games line” at Ubisoft…. |
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Chiara Diana
Chiara Diana is the Art director of Domus Academy and an integral part of DARC (Domus Academy Research Centre) since 2003. Chiara has carried out several research and market oriented projects in the field of ICT for companies like Nokia and Fujitsu. She has worked on projects in the area of Service and Experience design for Commune di Roma….. |
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Vincenzo Di Massa
Vincenzo holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Università degli Studi di Siena, received in 2008. He has contributed to many OpenSource projects (the linux kernel, KDE, ubuntu, fann) in recent years. During his PhD he developed an intelligent video surveillance system with Integra Solutions. Vincenzo is one of the itsme core hackers since early 2009….. |
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Fabio Erculiani
Fabio has worked as a freelance Unix/Linux consultant and programmer until January 2009. He is founder and Chief Architect of Sabayon Linux. From January 2009 all his know-how is at Itsme service with the aim to be part of the first, big human-machine interaction revolution in the IT Industry. Low level system interactions, kernel hacking… |
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Roberto(Mad Bob) Guido
Roberto is a long time software developer and free-software addicted user. He offers to the itsme team his experience in low- and high-level Unix development, his familiarity in embedded systems and security management, and a critic point of view about OpenSource technologies eligible to be integrated into the architecture…. |
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Marco Loregian
Marco holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Milano – Bicocca, received in 2006. After being a junior research fellow at the University of Milano – Bicocca, he is now a research and development specialist at itsme: besides research activities, he is responsible for the design of the itsme OS back-end and for the development of the itsme Web emulator… |
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Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni received a Dr. Ing. degree in electronic engineering from Politecnico of Milano and a post degree diploma from Cefriel in 1993. He has almost 15 years of software development experience in international environments. Besides his current activity with Cisco where he is active on optical control plane, Giovanni joined the itsme team as consultant with…. |
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Duccio Mauri
Duccio is an Industrial Designer, student at Polytechnic of Milan attending a master in Design&Engineering. After an internship at Itsme he now joined the Open Innovation team where he has tasks in research and helping coordinating the team activities and the incoming workshops…. |
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Claudio Moderini
Claudio is a senior interaction design consultant and researcher, founder and director of the Master Programme in I-Design and director of the Interaction Design Department of Domus Academy. He is leading Itsme interaction design group by providing a competence in creative direction, envisioning and strategic design… |
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Alesandro Morandi
Alessandro is a software developer who likes to turn his work into a chance for learning something new. He started as a freelance web developer, graduated in computer engineering at Politecnico of Milano and moved on to work on a highly innovative project on virtual assistants… |
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Guido Parlato
Guido is an interaction Designer and information architect specialising in the area of mobile and web interface. Before joining Itsme he worked as a UI Specialist at H3G Italy. He has also worked in collaboration with leading Design consultancies on projects concerning development of graphics and multimedia applications… |
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Nikhil Paul
Nikhil is a design strategist combining business enterprise and creative processes. In the past four years, he has worked with multinationals and leading design studios to develop appropriate work tools and strategies to boost the role of design in the innovation process, within a corporate context. He holds a Master degree in Business Design… |
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Giandomenico Sica
Giandomenico graduated with honors in Philosophy (Logic and Philosophy of Science, thesis on AI and decision making) at the University of Milano. Since 2004 until 2008 he was Founding Director at Polimetrica, an international scientific publisher. Polimetrica was one of the first companies in the world to publish open access academic books… |
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Michele tameni
Michele is a student of information engineering at Università degli Studi di Brescia, and a quite experienced software developer. He is free software lover, and a contributor of the Sabayon Linux project. He’s interested in the itsme backend research, and offers to itsme his experience in GNU/Linux development and his knowledge about the open source…. |
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Roberta tassi
Roberta Tassi graduated in Communication Design at the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis that explores the relation between communication and service design. Since 2007 she is consultant at DARC, Domus Academy Research & Consulting: besides research activities, she deals with internal and external projects concerning visual identity, interaction… |
Scientific committee
A growing number of scholars advising Itsme at each step of its development process. The scientific committee currently consists of the following experts.
Alfonso Fuggetta (Politechnico di milano & Cefriel)
Patrizia Marti (University of Siena)
Roberto Polillo (University of Milano – Bicocca)
Marco Susani(Motorola Corp., Chicago)
Advisory board
Senior managers and entrepreneurs advising Itsme on its business strategies.
The advisory board currently comprises of:
Elserino Piol (Chair)
Luca De Michelis
Roberto Galimberti
Emanuele Marcianò
Roberto Polillo
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