Overview

I’m respon­si­ble for three cour­ses; thanks to various bureau­cra­tic tricks, they are shared by many degrees here in Trento.

ASD is now a clas­sic for me; I star­ted tea­ching it in 2005/2006, so the 2018/19 edi­tion is the 14th one. For the second time, the exam will be an “annual” one: the cour­se will start in September 2018 and end in May 2019.

DS2 has a more trou­bled sto­ry: it was once cal­led “Sistemi distri­bui­ti: teo­ria”, then Distributed Systems, then Distributed Algorithms. The cur­rent name reflec­ts the fact that the cour­se is now part of a two-cour­se series: DS1 given by Prof. Gian Pietro Picco and DS2 given by me. DS1 will focus on the basic con­cept rela­ted to distri­bu­ted systems, whi­le DS2 will pro­vi­de more advan­ced con­cep­ts, with a focus on distri­bu­ted algo­ri­thms. DS1 should be taken on 1st Year, 2nd Semester; DS2 should be taken on 2nd Year, 1st Semester.

In 2018/19, I will be the main tea­cher of the Scientific Programming. The cour­se is offe­red to two dif­fe­rent Master degrees:

• Quantitative and Computational Biology
• Data Science

I will teach the main part of the cour­se, and the stu­den­ts of the two masters will per­form dif­fe­rent lab ses­sions spe­cia­li­zed for their respec­ti­ve masters.