Stefano Cerri

Interview

• "Distance learning" (Roma, 21/12/95)

Biography

Born in Parma in 1947, Stefano Cerri graduated in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1971. Specialising in programming languages, he is Professor of Information Technology at the Department of Information Science (DSI) at the "Università degli Studi" of Milan, where he is responsible for the Functional Programming Laboratory. He has also taught in Pisa, Amsterdam and Brussels.

He is primarily interested in functional languages and the application of Artificial Intelligence, in particular "intelligent" systems for training and the human/computer interface.

He is author of numerous publications in specialist journals and has participated in many international conferences. He is a member if several commissions and working groups, both academic and industrial and has been responsible for the control and evaluation of research and industrial development projects.

In 1986 he was one of the founders of Dida*Lab , the research and development laboratory of Dida*El S.r.l. and was its director from 1988 to 1992. The company, set up in 1983 with private investment, is one of Italy's leading companies in the field of IT, the use of telecommunications for education, and recently in multimedia.

Bibliography

His publications in English include:

• Learning Computing: Understanding Objects by Understanding Variables and Function, 1996, in "Objects Currents: The first Online Hypertext Journal on the Internet concerning Object Oriented Programming" 1,1, http://www.sigs.com/objectcurrents

• Computational Mathematics Toolkit: architectures for modeling dialogues, 1995, Rapporto interno n.144-95, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione

• Introduction to Collaborative Dialogue, 1994, M.F.Verdejo and S.A. Cerri, Technologies in Distance Learning. In: M.F.Verdejo and S.A. Cerri, Collaborative Dialogue Technologies in Distance Learning. SpringerVerlag,Berlin: 1-7

• Learning Computing: Understanding Programs and Processes may imply Learning Any Concept, 1994, Rapporto interno n.125-94, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione

• NOBILE : object-based user model acquisition for second language learning, 1992 S.A. Cerri, E. Cheli, A. McIntyre. In:Swartz, M.L.; Yazdani,M. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Foreign Language Learning. The Bridge to International Communication, 171-190, Springer Verlag, Berlin

• SRL: A Legal Reasoning System, 1992, C. Alchourron, S.A.Cerri, et al In: A.A.Martino, (ed) Expert Systems inLaw, 29-51, North Holland, Amsterdam

• Learning Technology in the European Communities. Proceedings of the CECDELTA Conference on Research and Development, 1992. S.A. Cerri, J. Whiting (eds) X - 752, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

• Knowledge Communication Systems. 1991 S.A. Cerri, A. McIntyre. In: Proceedings of the 8ème Congres Reconnaissance des formes et Intelligence Artificielle, AFCET, AFIA-ARC-INRIA, Lyon Villeurbanne, France. Invited paper

• The Rather Intelligent Little LISPer, 1990, S.A. Cerri and M.T. Elsom-Cook. Intelligent Tutoring Media, 1, 17-22; Learned Information, Oxford