Professor Sebastiano IMPEDOVO

Sebastiano Impedovo was born in Putignano (Bari-Italy) on May 17, 1947. He obtained his degree in Physics with honours at the University of Bari in 1972. He became Assistant Professor in Electronics, then Associate Professor in Cybernetics in 1981, and since 1987 he is Full Professor of Operating Systems at the University of Bari. He is an IAPR Fellow and a member of IAPR, ACM, IEEE, IGS, ANIPLA and AICA Societies. He has published more than two hundred and fifty papers and seven books in the field of handwriting recognition and intelligent systems for document analysis, furthermore he also direct several nationale projects of ICT. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition. Sebastiano Impedovo has organized several international conferences, workshops, schools and international panels on Image Analysis and Document Processing, Tele-teaching and Tele-working. Sebastiano Impedovo was the Director of the Department of Computer Science of the Bari University, the President of the Degree Course in Computer Science and a Member of the "Senate" of the Bari University; he was the Coordinator the PhD Course in Computer Science substained by the EU, the Director of the Bari Unit of the National Interuniversity Consortium in Computer Science, a Member of the Scientific Board of the “Tecnopolis” Consortium, and the Chairman of the Council of Department Directors of the University of Bari. He is the President of the “Rete Puglia” centre specifically by him founded for promotion of the e-learninga. The must important contribution to IT: Designing and prototyping of the first electronic tablet: on IEEE SMC. (1976) Designing and prototyping of the first electronic monitor with a ligt pen controll for data imputing published on the proceedings of :INFORMATIKA conference Stefan Institute Lubliana .(1974) . Defining of the Diagonal algorithm for a fast computation to pass from RNS to Weighted Sistem Ccode on IEEE. and a lot of other contributions.