Born in Turin, Italy, September 23, 1941.
1966. Politecnico di Torino. Doctor in Electronic Engineering.
1967. Politecnico di Torino. Research in optimal signal filtering.
1968-1970. FIAT Aviation Division, Turin. Reliability and safety of aircraft electronic systems.
1971. MATRA, Paris. Air traffic control satellite project.
1972-1974. Boeing, Seattle. Reliability and safety of aircraft systems.
1975-1980. Elsag Bailey, Genoa. Design and development of programmable parallel processing architectures with application to pattern recognition.
1981-2006. As director of the Elsag Bailey IT division, design and development of large scale IT systems based on the Internet architecture in cooperation with the creators of Internet and ARPANET.
1991. Proposed the concept of quantum ground state computation.
Sponsored the 1993-1998 Elsag Bailey-ISI workshops on quantum communication and computation.
1994-2006. Developed the Elsag Bailey quantum lab; participated in three European Union ESPRIT and QAP quantum information projects; developed the MIUR and Segredifesa quantum cryptography projects based on Ekert protocol.
Received the 2004 Finmeccanica innovation award.
2006-2011. Developing a theory of the quantum speedLup