Alessandro (Ale) Provetti

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Visiting Professor to the Department of Computer Science.
Soon-to-be assistant professor at DSI-Univ. of Milan.

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I was exchange PhD student in El Paso, Texas, then home of my guru.. Prof. Michael Gelfond.

Texas, as seen by Alberto Burri, 1945:

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In spicy Parmesan dialect, local people who moved abroad are called strajé. A warm greeting to these fellows of mine: may you never run out of beloved cheese and ham.

A quiet evening stroll in Parma, Italy:

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Research Interests

• With Stefania Costantini, Consistency of logic programs;
• reasoning about actions, expecially narrative assimilation and causal explanation ;
• Logic programming exp. semantics, as a the computational side of knowledge representation.

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Education

January 1996.

Phd (dottorato di ricerca) in Computer Science and Law at C.I.R.F.I.D. - "Hans Kelsen" Interdipartmental Research Centre for Informatics and Law. University of Bologna,Italy.
Dissertation: Towards the Formalization of Causal Aspects of Legal Reasoning. Supervisors: G. A. Lanzarone and M. Matteuzzi.

September 1991.

MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology. Imperial College - Department of Computing, London (UK).
Dissertation: On the Temporal Aspects of Representing Legislation in Logic. Supervisor: M. J. Sergot.

July 1990.

Degree (Laurea) in Science dell'Informazione, University of Milan, Italy.
Dissertation: The Presentation of Completion Procedures and their Applications. Supervisor: G. Degli Antoni.

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Life beyond computing.

I'm single! Send pictures.

Here's what I like (as if you care):

Readings:

Borges, Kundera, Camus, Le Carré.

Movies:

Olmi, Avati, Buñuel.

Music:

Opera, Flamenco, Cuban.

Food:

pasta, salads, B-B-Q, exp. Italian sausages.

Beverages:

red wines, expecially Gutturnio, Chianti. and Rioja.

Travel:

Tireless walking around in historic towns, mountains. I like particularly the Dolomiti valleys.

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Contact me at:

Dept. of Computer Science		Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione
University of Texas at El Paso		Università di Milano
El Paso, TX 79968 U.S.A.		Milan, I-20135 Italy
Voice: (915) 747-6956 Fax: (915) 747-5030		Voice: +39-2-55006.290 Fax: +39-2-55006.238
provetti@cs.utep.edu		provetti@dsi.unimi.it

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Ego meter: Accesses since May 1996.

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March 2000 / Home Page / Ale Provetti / provetti@cs.utep.edu

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