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	Gianluca Chiozzi
	Email:	gchiozzi@eso.org
	Phone:	+49 89 320 06 543
	Fax:	+49 89 320 2 362
	Address:	European Southern Observatory Karl-Schwarzschildstraße 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany.

I work at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Since April 2007, I am Head of the Control and Instrumentation Software Department , in the Software Development Division.

My tasks in the matrix structure of our organization include:

Providing line management to ~ 20 software engineers, allocated to the development of control software for ESO projects.
Ensuring that an appropriate level of resources is made available to the projects.
Participating in the definition of software engineering practices.
Promoting and maintaining synergies between projects.
Assisting project teams in the definition and planification of software products.
Keeping abreast of new technology developments and assess their suitability for ESO's work.

As technical activities, I am working now as software architect on the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) project, mainly in the ALMA Common Software, and on preliminary studies for the control system of the E-ELT project

From 1999 to 2007, I have been mainly involved in the ALMA project, where I was responsible for the ALMA Common Software architecture and development, coordinating a team of about 10 people distributed in various sites in Europe, North America and Japan. ACS is the software middleware infrastructure for the ALMA project and is used also by other projects inside ESO and in other institutes. I also contributed to the overall ALMA architecture.

Before ALMA I have been heavily involved for about 6 years in the design and implementation of the VLT Common Software (CCS) and Telescope Control Software (TCS). In the CCS area I have been responsible for the design and implementation of the object oriented class libraries and APIs. In the TCS domain I have been responsible for the high level object oriented architecture and for the implementation of a number of subsystems in the control software for the VLT Unit Telescopes and for the VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes. For a couple of years, before switching to the ALMA project, I have been responsible for the coordination of the TCS team

An important part of my work at ESO in these years has been the introduction of Object Oriented methodologies and important contributions in the definition of the software engineering practices and standards both for the VLT and ALMA projects.

Before coming at ESO in 1994, I have worked at the IBM Scientific and Technological Research Center in Milano (Italy).
At IBM, I have worked on recognition systems for maps and technical drawings and on the development of effective user interfaces for utility management systems (like electrical or railways networks).

Currently my main interest is on observatory-level software infrastructures, real-time control systems and on the application of Object Oriented techniques to design and development of real-time applications.

Italian version - Versione in italiano

What's new in my Home Page

Here you find the last changes to my home page and last minute news and pointers that are worth a look.

Some more information about myself:

If you want some more information about myself, you should start having a look at my curriculum vitae. This will give you a general overview.
Then you can have a look at the other items, where you can find a more detailed description of my current and previous jobs or other topics that do not fit in the curriculum:

	Personal data
	My curriculum vitae
	Skill table: a table of my computer science skills
	More details on my activity at ESO (from May 94 on)
	More details on my previous jobs.... ... at IBM (Jan 90 - Apr 94) ... somewhere else (before Jan 90) ... making research at the University of Ferrara (Nov 88 - Dec 89)
	Information on other topics...

Useful sections:

Look at the following sections for resources that you could find really useful, in particular if you work at ESO and are one of my colleagues.

	Binders This section is an index of the contents of the document binders in my office. You can find here copies of ESO documents, presentations, articles and manuals of applications.
	Library (restricted access) Here you find the archive of all the books that I own, indexed by category.
	Documents Here you find documents, papers and presentations that I have written or that are referenced in some other section of this Web. Documents where I am (co-)author Official ESO documents (available in the ESO archive, protected access) Other referenced documents For more information about Object Oriented related matters, please refer to the VLT Object Oriented Working Group
	Readings Here you find a list of interesting books, articles, papers and other publications I have red, with a short comment and description. The sections contain lists of my preferred readings, subdivided by arguments, and a chronological history of my interesting readings (in reverse chronological order). On top of every page you find my last interesting lectures. If you look at these pages from time to time, you can find good ideas for technical and good time readings. Technical readings (computer and information science). Scientific readings (various scientific arguments, except for computer and information science). I am not only reading technical and scientific books, but also literature and romances. In particular science fiction, fantasy and spy stories. I am keeping a similar list also for these kind of readings, but I cannot made it publicly available on this web. If you are interested, let me know
	Protected area This section is password protected and contains some information that cannot be publicly available. None of the information is anyway confidential, because I do not trust internet security. I just put here some files that I want to be able to reach from any place or that I want to make available to a selected set of friends/colleagues. Some of them I use often, so I put here a direct (protected) link to save time: My bookmarks Margherita and Filippo
	My SDD Wiki Home Page My personal entry page in the SDD Wiki
	My Yahoo!! (password protected) A personalized page with news and information provided by Yahoo for free to anyone requesting the service. It is very interesting and can be configured to satisfy many needs.

Some interesting pointers:

	The ESO Home Page
	The ESO VLT software group home page
	The ESO Technical Division Object Oriented Working Group
	Control and Instrumentation SW Department pages
	ACS - advanced Common Software for the ALMA Project Look also at the ACS Wiki Page
	An Introduction to Scalable Frameworks for Observatory Software Infrastructure Documentation for the SPIE 2008 course on frameworks
	Astronomy Software Sharing Initiative Link to the initial discussion forum.

Disclaimer: Any view or statement made in these pages is not part of an official standpoint of ESO.

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Last modified: May 05 2009