Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)

Politecnico di Milano (hereafter denoted as Polimi) is the largest Italian Technical University. It has a long tradition in research and teaching activities in the IT domain. Starting with the academic year 2000-01, Polimi has adopted the so-called "3+2" system for engineering education, and has adopted a credit-based system for certification of study programs and plans.
In the Information Technology area, it provides courses at all academic levels (PhD included), providing scientific and teaching support to external centers providing specialized training of the "Master" type in cooperation with industrial partners (CEFRIEL and MIP in Italy, ALaRI in cooperation with other international Universities in Switzerland). Having a "networked" structure, with 7 campuses in the Lombardy region; it has since adopted "remote teaching" technologies for many years (via two-way TV channels or ISDN channels for real-time, totally interactive remote teaching, and with Internet-based solutions for partly off-line solutions). Polimi has a long tradition of collaboration with industry, both with respect to research and with respect to students' curricular activities (e.g., internship, seminar series or even full lecture courses presented by top industrial experts, etc.). Recently, it has created an "incubator" for new companies, not necessarily University spin-offs, that has already achieved notable success. The Department actively involved in ANTITESYS will be Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), the largest Department of Polimi, providing research and education in the whole IT area (Automation, Computer Science and Engineering, Microelectronics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Telecommunications). DEI has been (and is) actively involved in a large number of European projects, including educational ones.
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Related Activities
At the National level: Polimi cooperated with national companies, in particular ST Microelectronics in the First and Second National Plan for Microelectronics and in the First and Second National Research Council's Special Project for Microelectronic Materials and Devices. (Activities dealt with research on advanced microelectronic devices and architectures and on dissemination of related results and experiences).
At the European level: Starting with the First European project for Microelectronics in '82 (Polimi participated in the CVT project, from '83 to '85), Polimi has been a member of many European projects relating to microelectronics design and test, within Esprit actions, as well as within best-practice projects. Latest examples related to problems in Embedded Systems Design are two MEDEA projects, just activated, relating respectively to low-power design (MEDEA project FLOR - A504) and to design of high-security systems and devices (MEDEA project CRYPTO-SOC, A-304).
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CVs of key persons
Mariagiovanna Sami is a Full Professor of Digital Systems Design at Politecnico di Milano, where she graduated in 1966. She has published about 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, as well as books and chapters of books, on subjects related to digital architecture design, with particular reference to fault-tolerance and testing, high-performance architectures, low-power design. She has been Chairman of her Department for the years 1987-1990, and has been organizing chairperson or program chairperson for many international conferences. Together with Prof. De Micheli of Stanford University in 1995, she chaired a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Hardware-Software Co-design. She has been Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systems Architecture and an Editor of IEEE Design and Test, IEEE Transactions of Computers, and of the Journal of Electronic Testing.
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