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CURRICULUM VITAE
Last update: July - 2002.
Personal Data
Name:
Mazza Riccardo
Birth date and place:
October 5th, 1969, Randazzo (CT) - Italy
Citizenship:
Italian
Home Address: (Switzerland): Via Gerso, 2B
6900 Lugano – TI - Switzerland
Tel.: ++41 - 91 - 9235562
Switzerland visa permit type: B
Secondary Address: (Italy):
Via Fermi, 2
20090 Cesano Boscone (MI) - Italy
Mobile.
++41 – (0)78 – 7957745
++39 - 347 - 4191809
URL:
http://riccardo.mazza.com
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Marital Status:
Married with Beatrice Biondo since Sept.1997
with 1 child
Education
Since Oct. 99 Ph.D. student at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
(Switzerland), faculty of communication sciences. Subject of the
research: “External representations of student models in webbased learning environments”. Supervisor of the research work:
Prof. Marco Colombetti.
1995-1996
Master degree in Information Technology achieved at CEFRIEL
Consortium of Politecnico of Milan, Italy, in the Advanced
Information System Application Area (AISA). Courses attended:
Database Systems, Software Engineering, Multimedia
Information Systems. Final mark: 100/100. Research works
during the Master Course:
- Development of a multimedia database to be used in a medical
tele-consultation system.
- Project and development of a multimodal user interface
enabling to recognise static hand gesture grabbed from a
unexpensive camera.
1988-1997
University Degree in Computer Science achieved at the
University of Pisa, Italy. Thesis title: “A system enabling hand
gesture recognition”. Final mark: 103/110.
1988
High School degree achieved at Liceo Scientifico “Leonardo” in
Giarre (CT), Italy.
Technical Skills
Operating systems:
Dos, Unix (SunOS, Solaris, Linux), Windows
95/98/NT
Programming languages:
C, Pascal, Perl 5, PHP, Java 1.2, SQL
DBMS:
MySQL, Hughes Tecnology MiniSQL,
ORACLE v.8, Oracle Designer, Oracle
Developer, Oracle WebDB, pro*C, SQL*Net
Foreign Languages
English: - Reading & Writing ability: good
- Conversation: good
Past Job Experiences
February 1997 - July 1997
Part time jobs as freelance Internet/Intranet
consultant, developing CGI (Common
Gateway Interface) applications for the Web.
January 1997 – July 1999
Researcher at Centro CEFRIEL of Milano in
the AISA research area, with activities in the
following fields: developing applications for
the Web and PUSH Technologies.
Current Job Experiences
Since November 1997
Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) - Lugano,
(Switzerland): researcher and technical developer.
Since September 1999
Università della Svizzera Italiana, faculty of
Communication Sciences: researcher and teaching
assistant.
Since September 1999
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera
italiana (SUPSI) – Manno (Switzerland),
department of informatics and electronics:
scientific collaborator and teacher.
Since July 2001
Telos Internet Solutions SAGL, Lugano
(Switzerland): Founding partner and technical
developer
(http://www.telos-internet.ch).
Teaching Record
 1999-2000
o USI
 Course “Complementi di informatica”, assistant. Head of the
course prof. Marco Tommasini.
o SUPSI
 Course “Esercitazioni di informatica”, teacher
 2000-01
o USI:
 Course “Elementi di programmazione”, assistant. Head of
the course ing. Giampaolo Cugola.
o SUPSI:
 Progetti di semestre (Supervised 4 student)
 Progetti di diploma (Supervised 2 student)
 2001-02
o USI:
 Course “Elementi di programmazione”, assistant. Head of
the course ing. Giampaolo Cugola.
o SUPSI:
 Course “Linguaggi di programmazione”, teacher
 Progetti di semestre (Supervised 2 student)
B Sc. Theses Supervised:
 Mattia Bardelli, B.Sc., “Trasmissione di stream di dati XML sicuri in
internet”, SUPSI, 2001
 Poma Giosia, B. Sc., “Realizzazione di procedure per l’esportazione di
dati da WebCT”, SUPSI, 2001
Some of jobs done:
as freelance consultant:
 RINA (Registro Navale Italiano): realization of a corporate Web site with some
peculiarity of security, integration with databases and multilevel user profiling
(www.rina.it)
 RAI (Registro Aeronautico Italiano): assistant consultant for projecting and
layout’s designing of the Web site (www.rai-enac.it).
at Centro CEFRIEL of Milano:
 Project “ORCHESTRA” funded by Telecom Italia, technical consultant for
implementing functionalities of Computer & Telephone Integration.
 Tutor for a student at the master course in information tehnology.
at Università della Svizzera italiana:
 Technical responsible for the Swisscast project, founded by the Swiss National
Research Found (http://www.swisscast.net). Head of the project: prof. Murizio
Decina.
 Projecting and implementing of the database and Web site gateway of the
catalogue of the research institutes and high education institutes of Tessin.
(http://www.ti-edu.ch/usu/catalogo/catalogo.htm)
at Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera italiana:
 Project coordinator for implementing the database of post-graduate courses of
SUPSI.
 Collaborator for the project “MACS: continuous education modules”, funded by
the Swiss University Conference for the national programme “Swiss Virtual
Campus”
Papers in Refereed Journals:
Benedetto Lepori, Lorenzo Cantoni, Riccardo Mazza, The history and practice of push
communication: some critical reflections, SCOMS- Studies in Communication
Sciences, Vol. 2 Num. 1 Jan 2001. ISSN 1424-4896
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings:
Riccardo Mazza, Diagnosing The State Of The Student's Knowledge In A Web-Based
Learning Environment, 4th International Conference on New Educational
Environments Lugano, 2002 May 8-11. ISBN 3-0345-0031-9
Federico Flueckiger, Riccardo Mazza, Carlo Lepori, Virtual Campus in Southern
Switzerland, multilingual open distance learning with strong local roots and closed
relationships to other universities, NETTIES2001 – 7th International Netties
Conference/ 3rd International Conference on New Learning Technologies, Fribourg,
September 13th – 15th 2001. ISBN 2-940156-21-2
Papers in Unpublished Conference Proceedings:
Riccardo Mazza, Diagnosing The State Of The Student's Knowledge In A Web-Based
Learning Environment International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems,
Young Researchers Program, Biarritz, June 5-7, 2002.
Riccardo Mazza, Federico Flueckiger, Carlo Lepori, Lorenzo Cantoni, Osvaldo
Arrigo, Open Distance Education at Southern Switzerland University of Applied
Sciences: Some Results and Reflections, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, 7th International
conference on technology supported learning & training, Berlin, November 28-30
2001.
Riccardo Mazza, Federico Flueckiger, Carlo Lepori, Lorenzo Cantoni, Osvaldo
Arrigo, L'utilizzo di tecnologie di comunicazione mediate dal computer per la
didattica di un linguaggio di programmazione: alcuni risultati e considerazioni,
Giornate Svizzere della Formazione Professionale, Lugano, 8 — 10 November 2001
Riccardo Mazza, Formazione continua e classe virtuale: l’apprendimento del
linguaggio Java tramite tecnologie di formazione a distanza, XXXIX Congresso
annuale AICA, Tecnologie, Innovazione e Società, Como 19-21 September 2001.
Riccardo Mazza, Roberto Gaspari, Davide Tam, Un sistema per la gestione di
riferimenti bibliografici con schede di catalogazione in XML, Primo workshop
Italiano XML e Conoscenza, ACM Italian Chapter - Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing - Crema, 29-30 June 2001.
Federico Flueckiger, Riccardo Mazza, Open Distance Learning at Southern
Switzerland Universities EUNIS 2001 - 7th International Conference of European
University Information Systems, Berlin, Humboldt-University, March 28-30, 2001.
Maurizio Decina, Lorenzo Cantoni, Benedetto Lepori, Riccardo Mazza, Paolo
Jannuzzi. The SwissCast information push service, a multidisciplinary research, a
multifaceted experience. ACM SIGIR'99 Workshop on Customised Information
Delivery, August 19, 1999 - Berkeley, California
Technical Reports
B. Lepori, L. Cantoni, P. Jannuzzi, R. Mazza, S. Tardini, L’applicazione Swisscast nel
campo della ricerca scientifica, Rapporto scientifico, Università della Svizzera
Italiana, Aprile 2000
L. Cantoni, P. Jannuzzi, B. Lepori, R. Mazza, Delivering Relevant Information to
Interested Users, philosopy, system architecture & technical realisation of the
SwissCast push service, Rapporto scientifico, Università della Svizzera Italiana,
Maggio 1999.
Cantoni L. Dal Degan N. Lepori B. Mazza R. Scaroni F.: Push on the Net: between
Market & Technology, Progetto SwissCast, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Giugno
1998
Riccardo Mazza: Un sistema per il riconoscimento di comandi Gestuali, Tesi di
Laurea, Università degli studi di Pisa, Febbraio 1997
Riccardo Mazza: Un sistema per il riconoscimento di comandi gestuali realizzato
mediante tecniche di visione, Tesi di Master, Centro Cefriel, Luglio 1996
Riccardo Mazza: Integrazione di una base dati per l’archiviazione e il reperimento di
dati in MIMA, Rapporto intermedio Master Cefriel, Febbraio 1996
Other unpublished materials:
Riccardo Mazza, Object Oriented Perl. Published on web site "Latoserver.it", August
2000.
Honours
May 1998, 1st Silicon-Cray Award supported by Silicon Graphics Italia & Cray
Research, special mention for the work with title: "Un sistema per il riconoscimento di
comandi gestuali".
Associate Memberships
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Since September 1998 founding member of the group XML Italia.
In 1997 member of the Italian association “Lavoro & tecnologia”, with
activities in Telework promotion in Italy.
Association for Computing Machinery
Conference Program Committees
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Member of Organising Committee of the 4th international conference on new
educational environments, Lugano, Switzerland, May 2002
Ambitions
Most interesting subjects are distributed systems, database, computer networking,
Internet/Intranet application, adaptive systems for the web and distance learning.