Vincenzo Lombardo
Full professor of Informatics
Department of Informatics
and
CIRMA
Università degli Studi di Torino
Torino, Italy
Email:
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Phone: +39 011 6706722 / 4210
Latest news
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- 1 February 2024 - Starting position as Coordinator of the Scientific Board of PhD programme Technology for Culture
- 26 January 2024 -
Seminar at Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Interactive-Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing
Bio
Vincenzo Lombardo PhD, born in 1964, is a Full Professor of Informatics, at the University of Turin, Italy (Department of Informatics).He doctorated in Computer Science in the Turin-Milan University Consortium (1993). He is the President of CIRMA (Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Multimedia and Audiovideo).
He is the Coordinator of the Scientific Board of international PhD programme Technology for Culture.
At public company Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park, he has run the Art-Science Alliance Laboratory (ASA Lab) from 2004 to 2012 (see videos on Vimeo at the company account and the personal account).
He has been the principal investigator of the EU-funded project VEP (Virtual Electronic Poem), and the national project DramaTour. He has been a key-person and workpackage leader in EU-project Beyond archaeology.
His research interests concern methodologies, models and applications of informatics for interdisciplinary challenges (e.g., earth sciences for cartography, dramatization for interactive applications and heritage preservation, archaeology and history for research and engagement, landscape for preservation and management). Currently, he addresses metadata annotation and multimedia applications for cultural heritage; he has also worked on models and algorithms for natural language processing and cognitive phenomena. His papers are published in international journals, books, conference proceedings. He is also active as a multimedia designer and producer.
Highlights:
- VEP (project Virtual Electronic Poem): archaelogy of a multimedia masterpiece of the 20th century, with many virtual reality installations, hosted all over the world, and best art paper prize at ACM Multimedia 2006; the VEP webdoc included by the US Library of Congress into the historic collection of Internet materials related to the Performing Arts Web Archive;
- BeArchaeo (project Beyond Archaeology): EU-Japan RISE project on modern archaeological practices, with released ontology for archaeological and archaeometric knowledge, and virtual reality installation (see the trailer), hosted in public exhibitions;
- Audio and multimedia (2002-2024, textbook in Italian, with Andrea Valle, 5 editions), used in many universities and conservatories in Italy;
- Drammar (2005-2020, wiki and ontology for drama, with Rossana Damiano and Antonio Pizzo), employed in tasks of drama heritage preservation and analysis, with honorable mention for best paper at ICIDS Conference 2014, nomination for best paper at ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2017, a number of journal papers, a released ontology and prototype corpus on permanent URL;
- OntoGeonous (2017-2020, with Fabrizio Piana and Alizia Mantovani), employed in tasks of geological cartography, a number of journal papers and a released ontology on permanent URL;
- Earley-type recognizer for dependency grammars (1996, with Leonardo Lesmo), mentioned in dependency parsing literature handbook of contemporary research in dependency and valency (2006).
