Giovanni Adorni born on March 26, 1952. He received the Dr. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 1976. He was Associate Researcher at DIST - Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences of the University of Genoa; Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Trent; Full Professor of Computer Engineering, the School of Engineering of the University of Parma. Since November 1999 he is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Science of Education of the University of Genoa.
At the University of Parma, he has been Member of the Board for the Scientific Research of the Ateneum, the Director of the Diploma Degree in Computer Engineering and Telematics of the School of Engineering, and the Representative of the Rector for “Information and Communication Technologies”, coordinating also the activities of the NETTUNO Consortium (national consortium for “on-distance learning&rdq... read more
Giovanni Adorni born on March 26, 1952. He received the Dr. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 1976. He was Associate Researcher at DIST - Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences of the University of Genoa; Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Trent; Full Professor of Computer Engineering, the School of Engineering of the University of Parma. Since November 1999 he is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Science of Education of the University of Genoa.
At the University of Parma, he has been Member of the Board for the Scientific Research of the Ateneum, the Director of the Diploma Degree in Computer Engineering and Telematics of the School of Engineering, and the Representative of the Rector for “Information and Communication Technologies”, coordinating also the activities of the NETTUNO Consortium (national consortium for “on-distance learning”).
At the University of Genoa, he has been Director of two Laurea Degree: Science of Communication and Science and Technology of Communication and Information (e-learning blended program). He is also Director of two e-learning programs: the University Master on “E-Learning for School, University and Enterprise”, and the University Specialization Program on “EPICT - European Pedagogical ICT Licence”.
He has been Representative of the Rector for “Information and Communication Technologies and E-Learning” from 1999 to 2004. He has been member of the Board of Directors of the Telematics University “eCampus” from 2006 to 2009.
His research activities are in the area of robotics, computer vision, multi-agent systems, adaptive systems and e-learning.
He coordinated several national research programs on artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics and e-learning. Among them: Special National Program “SIAD – Distributed Artificial Intelligence Systems” by CNR – National Research Council (1998-2000), National Project “Azzurra Robot Team” (1999-2001) by CNR – National Research Council, in the framework of international RoboCup program ( http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/); National Project SENSI (Intelligent Sensors) by ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (2000-2003), IS-MANET (Distributed Software Infrastructure for Hazardous Environments) by CNR - National Research Council (2003-2005), E-Learning National Program “CampusOne” by CRUI - Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities (2001-2004) (http://www.campusone.unige.it/). He has also been National Coordinator of the “Computer Vision and Robotics Cluster” by ASI – Italian Space Agency (1999-2004). He participated to different European programs, including: ESPRIT P419 “Human Movement Understanding”, the seven years EUREKA PROMETHEUS project, where he has been the national coordinator and member of the European steering committee for the PRO-ART sub-project (1988-1995) (http://www.ce.unipr.it/computer_vision/mob-lab.html), the SPA Leonardo da Vinci Program (2002-2005), and the “ePict” E-Content Program (2003-2006) (www.epict.org). He is presently participating to the DIGITALEARTH Comenius Project (2010-2012).
He received, among others, the European Artificial Intelligence Prize on Cognitive Modelling (1984), the Systems Research Foundation Award (National Science Foudation, USA, 1988), the Outstanding Award at the XXXVI International Conference on Communication (1988), the silver medal during RoboCup 1999 (Stockholm), the silver medal during EuroRobocup 2000 (Amsterdam), and the Innovation System Award on Mobile Agents (CIA, 2001). He has been appointed as Fellow of European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence in 2004.
He has authored and co-authored over two hundred scientific papers in international journals, contributed volumes, and conference proceedings, and of EifFE-L eLearning platform, published on SourceForge with GPL licence, compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 of W3C, and with the specification of CNIPA – National Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration, which include the Italian law on accessibility. Co-founder of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), he has been Vice President of AI*IA (2001-2005). He is presently coordinating the Working Group on “AI and E-Learning”. He is a member of SIE-L (Italian Society for E-Learning), and AI*IA. He is presently Chair of the EPICT European Consortium (www.epict.org).
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