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Navigation Bar My name is Gerardo Lamastra; whether you arrived here with a specific purpose or just by chance, may you be welcome in peace....


____ This is a brief history of my life: I was born in Potenza, November 23rd 1971. I studied Computer Engineering at Pisa University. While there, I also had the best time of my life, meeting nice people, drinking wine (and other stuff...) and sharing ideas during dinners. In particular, with two of them, Peppe (Giuseppe Lipari) and Tonino (Antonino Casile), we started a ever lasting working team on our first real software project:
The Safeline IFR flight simulator!
____ I graduated in 1996 with a thesis on the design and development of a real-time kernel running on the x86 32 bit CPUs.
____ I started my Ph.D. in 1997 at ReTiS Lab, of Scuola Superiore di Studi e Perfezionamento S.Anna; my research was focused on kernel support for multimedia applications. After a small interlude, for accomplishing my social service, first at State Library in Potenza and then at Pisa University library, and some activity as system manager, I spent nine months at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as research scholar at DiRT. I had a really nice time there, continuing my Operating System Research and discovering what does mean to live in the US.
____ After finishing the Ph.D. I started to work for CSELT, which later changed its name into Telecom Italia Lab. This was formerly the research facility of Telecom Italia, the national telecommunication provider of Italy. Now it aims to be the " Innovation Company". My current activity focuses on Internet Security, Intrusion Detection Systems and Computer Forensic Analysis. If you are interested in the company galore, check out the official website, Be-Secure.


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