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Franco Pirri

Curriculum vitae

Franco Pirri was born in Livorno on May 14th, 1945. He received the Laurea (Dr. degree) from the University of Pisa in 1971. He joined the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica of the University of Firenze in 1973 and became Associate Professor of "Industrial Electronics" in 1982. He is currently Associate Professor of "Telematics" and of "Automatic Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems".

Franco Pirri is author of more than 75 papers, congress presentations and technical reports. His professional and academic experience has been focused on digital system design, with emphasis on communication networks, multimedia applications and application specific integrated circuits (ASIC).

He is member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communication Society.

Research Activities:

Franco Pirri was principal investigator for several research contracts with the the European Community, the Italian Research Council and private institutions:

• Progetto Fiore
  A metropolitan area network for the University of Firenze;

• Progetto MADESS
  Materials and devices for electronic circuits and systems;

• Prometheus
  Development of electronic systems for automotive applications;

• Olympus
  Development of multimedia systems for satellite communication;

• RACE - Telemed
  Networks and databases for medical applications;

• ACTS - ISIS
  Multimedia distribution through satellite;

• ESPRIT - MIMICS
  Management of Environmental Emergency through WEB videoconferencing.