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The Olivetti Programma 101 “Perottina“, is the first commercial programmable "desktop computer”. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair by Italian manufacturer Olivetti, based in Ivrea, province of Turin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO

Turin

U N I T O A N D C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E

• University of Turin (Torino), est. 1404
• over 2,000 professors, over 70,000 students
• Computer Science Department, est. 1971
• Second oldest and among the largest in Italy
• Over 75 tenured academics and researchers, over 50 PhD and

postdocs

• 1 BSc (over 500 students per year), 4 MSc (computer science),

2 interdisciplinary graduated and PhD schools

Royal Library of Turin Codex on the Flight of Birds (1505) Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (1512)

U N I T O : FA C U LT Y A N D A L U M N I

Erasmus of Rotterdam (theology, 1506) Amedeo Avogadro (theology, 1796) Giuseppe Cottolengo (theology, 1816) Quintino Sella (engineering, 1847) Giovanni Schiaparelli (engineering, 1854) Orazio Spanna (law, 1855) Giovanni Giolitti (law, 1861) Giuseppe Giacosa (law, 1868) Corrado Segre (mathematics, 1885) Camillo Olivetti (engineering, 1886) Giuseppe Peano (mathematics, 1879) Luigi Einaudi (law, 1895) Palmiro Togliatti (law, 1915) Antonio Gramsci (humanities) Piero Gobetti (law, 1922) Luciana Frassati (law, 1923) Carlo Levi (medicine, 1924) Norberto Bobbio (law, 1931) Cesare Pavese (literature, 1930) Luigi Pareyson (philosophy, 1931) Giovanni Palatucci (law, 1932) Rita Levi Montalcini (medicine, 1936) Raf Vallone (literature, 1939) Primo Levi (chemistry, 1941) Umberto Eco (philosophy, 1954) Laura Mancinelli (literature, 1956) Gianni Vattimo (philosophy, 1959) Sergio Chiamparino (political science) Alessandro Baricco (filosofia) Maurizio Ferraris (filosofia, 1979) Alessandro Barbero (literature, 1981) Ugo Mattei (law, 1983) Luciana Littizzetto (literature, 1990) Marco Travaglio (literature, 1996) Piero Fassino (political science, 1998) Giorgio Chiellini (business, 2010)

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Erasmus Avogadro Peano Eco Chiellini Lagrange Olivetti Segre

3 N O B E L P R I Z E S ( A N D 1 T U T O R )

Salvatore Edoardo Luria (1912 – 1991) 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 – 2012) 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1986, with Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). From 2001 until her death, she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life. Renato Dulbecco (1914 – 2012)
 Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1975 for his work on

• ncoviruses. He studied at the University of Turin

under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance. Giuseppe Levi (1872 – 1965) was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy (since 1916) at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. Levi was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cultured cells. While in Turin, he tutored three students who later won the Nobel prize: Salvador Luria, Renato Dulbecco and Rita Levi-Montalcini.

C H A I R S

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Marco Aldinucci Luca Padovani Massimo Torquati (UNIPI)

C o n f e re n c e Wo r k s h o p Tu t o r i a l s

Dora Blanco (USC) Gabriele mencagli (UNIPI) Claudia Misale (IBM) Peter Kilpatrick (QUB)

Topic 1 Support Tools And Environments 2 Performance And Power Modeling, Prediction And Evaluation 3 Scheduling And Load Balancing 4 High Performance Architectures And Compilers 5 Parallel And Distributed Data Management And Analytics 6 Grid, Cluster And Cloud Computing 7 Distributed Systems And Algorithms 8 Parallel And Distributed Programming, Interfaces, Languages 9 Multicore And Manycore Methods And Tools 10 Theory And Algorithms For Parallel Computation And Networking 11 Parallel Numerical Methods And Applications 12 Accelerator Computing For Advanced Applications

E V E N T S

• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Conference news
• Artifact evaluation
• Chess-timer talks

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• Well Documented
• Easy to Reuse

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C H E S S T I M E R TA L K C H E S S T I M E R TA L K

Turin (Torino)

T U R I N F I R S T C A P I TA L O F I TA LY ( 1 8 6 1 - 1 8 6 5 )

• Formerly an industrial city — no longer
• 1.7M people, 4th largest city in Italy
• Small and walkable city center
• Over 80 museums: fine arts, technology,

culture…

• In the New York Times “52 Places to Go in 2016”
• Hundreds of hotels and restaurants
• Well known for good food at reasonable prices
• 1-2-3 Michelin stars restaurants also available
• Metro, tram, bus

T R AV E L I N G T O T U R I N

• Turin Caselle airport
• 30 min bus/train to the city center (16 Km)
• 45+ destinations including Frankfurt, Munich,

Paris, London, Madrid, Rome

• Milano Malpensa Intercontinental airport
• Shuttle bus to the city center every 2 hours.

Two hours trip (140 Km)

• 150+ destinations. EasyJet hub.
• Railway
• Both local and high speed trains

L U I G I E I N A U D I U N I V E R S I T Y O F T O R I N O C A M P U S

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New York World's Fair 1964