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Letizia Tanca
Letizia Tanca studied Mathematics at the University of Naples, where she obtained her Master's degree in Mathematical Logic; she then worked for four years as a software engineer in telecommunication firms. Letizia Tanca obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1988. Later, she remained with Politecnico di Milano first as a research associate and then as an associate professor. She joined the University of Verona in 1995 as a full professor, and stayed there as the Dean of the Computer Science course until 1998. Letizia Tanca is currently with Politecnico di Milano again, as a full professor. During her career she has taught and teaches courses on Databases and the Foundations of Computer Science. She is the author of several papers on databases and database theory, published in international journals and conferences, and of the book ``Logic Programming and Databases", coauthored with S. Ceri and G. Gottlob. She has taken part to several national and international projects. Her research interests range over all database theory, especially on deductive, active and object oriented databases, graph-based languages for databases, the semantics of advanced database and information systems, representation and querying of semistructured information, particularly information on the World Wide Web. More recently, her research has been concentrated on context aware data management for mobile computing . Letizia Tanca has been a referee of several international journals, and a member of the programm committee of a large number of international conferences. She is currently chairperson of the degree and master Courses in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Leonardo campus.
