The aim of this PhD. course it to describe the history of Free Software and Internet (mother and daughter of Free Software) and their most important products. To discuss the opportunities of the future of Free Software and Internet represented by the recent progress of all the information processing and transmission technologies. To analyze the complex question of intellectual property.
Free Software related presentations
Read more...
Hardware components respecting users' freedoms. Read more...
Ethics handouts about freedoms in the IT world.
Read more...
Internet seen as the mother and daughter of "free" culture. Read more...
Confutation of the STO paradigm.
Read more...
Sharing can help also in the building of a healthier environment. Read more...
Free Software as a didactic tool for students.
Read more...
Presentations of FOSS solutions regarding other general fields. Read more...
8
APR
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30. Presentation of final exam. | Slides |
15
APR
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30 | Slides |
22
APR
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30 | Slides |
29
APR
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30 | Slides |
6
MAY
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30. From 15.30 Roboduino and visit at DET labs. | TBA |
13
MAY
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30 | Slides |
20
MAY
|
Lesson from 14.30 to 17.30 | TBA |
Prof. Angelo Raffaele Meo (professor emeritus) has been Full Professor of Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino from 1970 to 2010.
He was the head of “Centro per l’Elaborazione Numerale dei Segnali” at CNR, director of the “Progetto Finalizzato Informatica” (1979-1985) and scientific director of “Centro di Supercalcolo Piemonte” (1991-1996).
He has published more than one hundred papers dealing with computer science. In particular, he investigated switching theory, hardware design, signal processing, speech analysis and synthesis, and pattern recognition.
He has coordinated many academic and industrial national research projects on computer science.
He was the president of the Academy of Sciences of Torino.
In 2002 he was called by the Italian Ministry of Technology to preside at a Commission entrusted with the task of promoting open source in the Italian Public Administration.
Since 2012 he is emeritus professor at Politecnico di Torino.