Open AccessIL CONTRIBUTO DEL POLITECNICO ALLO SVILUPPO DELL’INFORMATICA
Author(s) -
Carlo Ghezzi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
incontri di studio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2384-9878
pISSN - 2279-5251
DOI - 10.4081/incontri.2016.247
Subject(s) - informatics , political science , library science , business informatics , information society , humanities , computer science , art , health informatics , health care , law
The history of Computer Science and Engineering (Informatics) began internationally after the Second World War. In the last decade of the twentieth century it bacame one of the disciplines with highest impact on economy, industry, and society. The development of Informatics at Politecnico started when the first computer was brought to Italy from the USA by Prof. Luigi Dadda and the first experiments and investigations were launched. Since then Informatics has been continuously growing until today it became the engine of modern society, often called the Information Society. This paper reports on the main developments of Informatics at Politecnico and the main contributions achieved nationally and internationally in education and research.