Carlo Tarantola, professional page

Italian. Carlo is a Doctor in Electronic Engineering from Genoa University 'Summa cum Laude'. Always interested and proficient with leading technologies, in Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC, then COMPAQ and now HP) he pioneered Internet with an unique and innovative system he invented( MERLIN or the original brochure ) in Intelligent Tutoring and Intelligent Database Navigation, built around semantic knowledge representation, multimedia data, Internet distributed client-server architectures, object-oriented databases and fuzzy-logic based kernel that became a DEC product. After eight years in DEC he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories and then AT&T Labs where he designed a satellite network for a Multimedia University. Attracted by the telecommunications world, he joined Lucent Bell Labs as R&D Director for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) where he participated in the evolution of the innovative concept of Softswitch to allow transport and control of voice streams in packet networks. Because of such a wide background and expertise, Carlo was appointed Chief Scientist and R&D responsible for Trader.com where he supervised activities in Machine Translation, 3D imaging, Virtual Communities, Wireless Communication and Wireless Internet and E-commerce. Carlo was one of the co-founders for an Automotive Telematics company called mFutureLabs which, after generating 750,000 Euro in its first year, has moved its operations to Volkswagen & Wolfsburg (Germany). Currently working for Oracle Corporation where he is evangelizing Oracle's Pervasive Mobile & Wireless capabilities as a differentiator. He evaluated, created and recruited the Near-Shore Consulting/Delivery center in Warsaw, Poland responsible for the development and delivery of world-wide size projects such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Delivery Platform for Telenor group and affiliates.

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Patents:

• Patent Awarded: “ Systems and methods for sensor-based computing”, U.S. Patent 7,152,019 – 19-Dec-2006

Publications:

• “Dynamic Active Networks Services (DANS) as dynamic distributed systems”, The 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18 - 21, 2004 Orlando, Florida, USA
• “Ontology Engineering by Fuzzy Cognitive Maps”, Special VISNET session, National Conference on Radiocommunications and Broadcasting, KKRRiT 2004, Warsaw, Poland
• “Dynamic Active Network Services” , poster in Fifth International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004), 19 - 22 January 2004 in Berkeley, California, USA
• "MERLIN: An Intelligent Tutoring Shell", Intl Workshop on Human Computer Interfaces, Moscow, 5-8 August 1991.

Presentations:

• "<meals@home> the mariage of wireless, pervasive and healthcare", World Meeting on Medical Automation, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, June 29-July 1 2005.
• "RFID and multimedia applications: a complementary perspective", IMAGINA 2005, Monaco, February 2-5, WIMA (Wireless Information Multimedia Applications)
• "Bringing Open Source into the Entreprise" Open Source Applications and Standards Workshop, 16 December 2004, ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France