Massimo Marchiori
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Massimo Marchiori (born 1970 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian computer scientist who made major contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
[edit] Biography
In July, 2004, he was awarded the TR100 prize by the Technology Review (the best 100 researchers in the world).
He is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua, and Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the World Wide Web Consortium.
He was the creator of HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single pages ranks, but also on the relationship between the single pages and the rest of the web. Afterwards, Google co-founders Page and Brin cited HyperSearch when they introduced PageRank.[1]
He is one of the co-authors of the world standard for privacy on the Web, P3P.
He started the XML Query effort at W3C, and is one of the authors of the XQuery family of world standard for querying information on the Web.
He is currently teaching "Basi di dati e Sistemi Informativi 2" (Databases and Information Systems 2), "Reti di Elaboratori" (Computer Networks) and "Tecnologie web" (Web technologies) at the University of Padua, Italy. Since April 2010 he is the Chief Technology Officer of Atomium Culture[2].
In February of 2012, Marchiori launched Volunia, a web-based search application which makes it possible to search for something and also to meet other people who are searching for the same thing. He calls this method, "Seek and meet." Another feature set of Volunia is a toolbar that makes a personal map of the website with all of its sections, and a media button that shows all media within it. Finally, the "Social Box" shows how many others are browsing or have browsed the site you are on, as well as allows you to contact or connect with them.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Page, Lawrence and Brin, Sergey and Motwani, Rajeev and Winograd, Terry (January 29, 1998). "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web." (PDF). Stanford University. http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ^ Atomium Culture
- ^ Corriere della Sera, 7 Feb 2012
[edit] External links
- Official website on W3 Consortium
- Official website on University of Padua
- Technology Review award
- The HyperSearch paper
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