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I began to disassemble PCs. The first victim was Fabio's i486 DX2. Unfortunately that time the number of screws we screwed off exceeded the number of screws we screwed in. Fabio wasn't able to start his PC anymore!:-D After some practice me and my brother, Alberto, were able to assemble systems so that friend started to ask us to build PCs for them. My mother was desperate: the confusion ruled unchallenged in the recreation room since that time! I started to read most known magazines like "PC Pro" and so grew my interest for themes binded to system architecture.
So began the passion for Microarchitectures of CPUs. Even here I'm not able to explain that brought me to this, I only know that I strongly wanted know more and more about how information was procecessed. Someone noticed my posts on NVitalia forums and asked me to work to the development of an hardware related site : Memlabs. Unfortunately the site is no more on line but that person, "mem" is now administrating this site.

Some months later I was working for Hardware4you.it, here I could put all I learned about AMD and Intel x86 architecture in practice. Analysis of Claw Hammer and Prescott architectures were a hit with the public that seemed to appreciate the way I tried to explain things not always plain. Chief Editors asked me to continue to write similar articles and so came more scientifical pieces like the one on "Electromigration effect" in Intel P4 Willamette processors. On the 10th of October 2004 I published the last analysis of a CPU: "Intel Dothan: Mobile non tantum". Sixteen pages of accurate analysis of the most interesting processing unit from Intel of the last years. After some weeks I started to work for HwUpgrade, the most important hardware and software web site in Italy. In HwUpgrade I'm in charge of the Motherboards channel.

Microarchitecture is, of course, a strong passion but there is something even stronger. I was attending the fourth year of Classic high school when I ran into a thing that seemed so strange and, just for this, even so fascinating. It was the AI, Artificial Intelligence. I was astonished by this subject and tried to learn how to implement artificial intellicence based systems. I started reading "Artificial Intelligence: a modern approach" by Russel and Norgiv, it was a fundamental reading. Neural Networks were my first interest. As short Thesis of my last year of High school I discussed the "Interconnections among ancient and modern knowledge of intelligence models" supported by a Neural Network that learned addition and a demo program that showed potentialities of path-disconvering optimization through the use of cellular automata.
The interest for AI related topics grew stronger; with some friends of it.comp.ia NG we started an OCR project based on the concept of "shape abstraction" in 2003. I read some other books on Neural Networks till I didn't find anything new. It was the Genetic Algorithms time! I gained some knowledge on them thank to on-line USA Universities tutorials. Although I don't dislike Swarm Intelligence Theory and Fuzzy Inference Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms are my favourite problem solving tools.

I thought my two main passions were not conjugable until I discovered my current main research interest: Bioinformatics. The circle was so closed. When I chose Computer Engineering there was something in me that remained not completely satisfacted. Informatics, of course, was my life but there was something I estimated even more important: it was medicine. I think in me there's the same thing that pushes a physician to start a life devoted to the neighbour. With bioinformatics I was able to conjugate Informatics and medicine in the most interesting subject that I've ever met. Artificial Intelligence, electronics and data mining mix in this discipline to give one of the most active research field of present science.

Current study interest

In the last months I've tried to apply some AI techniques to informtation investigation in biomedical knowledge base and other problems relatedo to the biomedical field. If you want to know more about this you can check "Publications" page. Here are some cues of research I'm currently interested in:

- Biomedical Database Datamining
- Intelligent Systems in Medical Diagnostics
- Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in Intelligent Systems design
- Artificial Intelligence in Computational Biology
- Intelligent Image Analysis in Medical Diagnostics

Military Aircrafts and Space

Since I was young military aircrafts fascinated me. Even in this case I cannot say why it happens but everytime I see an F-16 I feel an internal excitement. I started to play military flight simulation with Falcon 4.0 and continued with the recent Lock On.

At the same time I try to experience space flights through Orbiter simulator. It's a good space flight simulator especially if we consider that it's completely free.