Stefano Ceri (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian

computer engineer Computer engineering (CE, CoE, or CpE) is a branch of engineering specialized in developing computer hardware and software. It integrates several fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science. Computer engine ...

and professor of

database management In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and ana ...

at Politecnico di Milano. He has been visiting professor at

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between 1983 and 1990, and received the ACM SIGMOD Edward Codd Innovations Award in 2013.

Career

Stanford University

He was a visiting professor at

in the 1980s and 1990s.

Scientific Research

Some of the research projects he has been responsible for at Politecnico di Milano include W3I3: "''Web-Based Intelligent Information Infrastructures''" (1998–2000), WebSI: "''Data Centric Web Services Integrator''" (2002–2004), SeCo
Search Computing
(2008–2013), GenData2020: Data-Centric Genomic Computing (2013–2016), and GeCo: Genomic Computing (2016–2021). He received two

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

Advanced Grants, in 2008 for the Search Computing project and in 2016 for the Genomic Computing project. His research interests are focused on: * extending

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

technologies for incorporating data distribution, deductive rules, active rules, and query languages for

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

* methods and languages for the specification of data-intensive Web sites, such as WebML * search computing and crowd searching methods * genomic computing

WebML inventor

He is one of the inventors of WebML, a modeling language for the conceptual design of web applications (US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003) and he is one of the co-founders o
WebRatio
a spinoff of Politecnico di Milano whose mission is to promote and commercialize development tools based on WebML and model-driven development in general (spanning Interaction Flow Modeling Language, BPMN, and

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly ...

Alta Scuola Politecnica

Until November 2013, he was director o
Alta Scuola Politecnica

Awards

* 1991 – VLDB Best Paper Award in 1991. * 2000 – VLDB Test of Time Award in 2000. * 2013 – ACM SIGMOD Edward F. Codd Innovations Award: During his ACM-Sigmod talk, he explained the "Seven Golden Rules for being Successful in Research". They are: (1) Invest in education, (2) Choose the right co-workers, (3) Take context into account when choosing your research agenda, (4) Write!, (5) Diversify your research, (6) Learn from other disciplines, (7) Don't always work.

Membership

He is member of the

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. In 2014 he became ACM

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of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

Books

*''Distributed Databases: Principles and Systems'' (McGraw-Hill, 1984) *''Logic Programming and Databases'' (Springer-Verlag, 1990) *''Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach'' (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992) *''Active Database Systems'' (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995) *''Advanced Database Systems'' (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997) *''The Art and Craft of Computing'' (Addison-Wesley, 1997) *''Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology'' (Addison-Wesley, 1997) *''Database Systems: Concepts, Languages, and Architecture'' (McGraw-Hill, 1999) *''Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications'' (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002) *''Web Information Retrieval'' (Springer-Verlag, 2013) *''Creating Innovation Leaders'' (Springer-Verlag, 2015)

Patents

* ''Model for the definition of world wide web sites and method for their design and verification'' (US 6,591,271, July 2003, with P. Fraternali) * ''Method for extracting, merging and ranking search engine results'' (US 8,180,768, May 2013, with D. Braga, M. Brambilla, A. Campi, E. Della Valle, P. Fraternali, D. Martinenghi, M. Tagliasacchi) * ''Method and system of management of queries for crowd searching'' (US 8,825,701 B2, July 2014, with A. Bozzon, M. Brambilla)

Didactic Projects

* He is interested in new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in academic education (see the book Creating Innovation Leaders). * He is responsible for Politecnico di Milano of Data-Shack,DataShack Harvard-Politecnico di Milano Joint Program on Data Science for Sharing Economy
Politecnico di Milano –

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, accessed 2016-1-2. an experimental didactic project jointly developed with the Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

References

Links

Stefano Ceri Home pageSearch Computing projectCrowdsearcher projectGenomic Computing project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ceri, Stefano 1955 births Living people Italian computer scientists Members of Academia Europaea 2013 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 20th-century Italian scientists 21st-century Italian engineers