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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, until 1994, when she became a full professor at the University of Bari. She joined the University of Verona in 1995 and stayed there as the chair of the Computer Science course until 1998. Letizia Tanca is currently with Politecnico di Milano again, as a full professor, and has held the chair of the degree and master courses in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Leonardo campus, from 2000 to 2006. She has taught and teaches courses on Databases, Foundations of Computer Science, and Information Systems Technologies. 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 been the local leader of 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, and the semantics of advanced database and information systems, representation and querying of semistructured information. Her most recent research interests concern context-aware database design, mobile databases and very small databases for mobile devices. Letizia Tanca has been a referee of several international journals, and a member of the program committee of a large number of international conferences.
