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Marco Aiello receives AIxIA Dissertation Award

AIxIA Dissertation Award

Marco Aiello has won the prize for the best dissertation in the field of
AI defended after January 2002 from the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AIxIA). The price consists of 1500 euro. Aiello will be
awarded the price on 24 September from 17:10-18:50, during the national
conference of the association that this year will be held in Pisa 23-26 of
September, 2003.

Aiello received his Laurea (M.S.) in Ingegneria Informatica from the
University of Rome La Sapienza, magna cum laude, in February 1997,
presenting a thesis titled "The use of scripting languages for rapid
prototyping" under the supervision of Maurizio Lenzerini. He received his
PhD from the University of Amsterdam defending a thesis titled "Spatial
Reasoning: Theory and Practice" under the supervision of Johan van Benthem
and Arnold Smeulders.

Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and
Telecommunications of the University of Trento working on Distributed
Systems (Web-Services and E-commerce in particular).