Carlo Tarantola, professional page

Italian. Carlo holds a Doctorate in Electronic Engineering (Laurea) from Genoa University graduating Summa Cum Laude. Always interested in and proficient with leading technologies, he worked at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC, later COMPAQ, now HP), where he pioneered Artificial Intelligence and Internet applications with a unique and innovative system he invented - MERLIN. This system, focused on Intelligent Tutoring and Intelligent Database Navigation, was built around semantic knowledge representation, multimedia data, Internet-distributed client-server architectures, object-oriented databases, and a fuzzy-logic-based kernel that eventually became a DEC product.

After eight years at DEC, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, and later AT&T Labs, where he designed a satellite network for a Multimedia University. Attracted by the telecommunications field, he joined Lucent Bell Labs as R&D Director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), where he contributed to the evolution of the innovative Softswitch concept, enabling the transport and control of voice streams over packet networks.

Thanks to his broad background and expertise, Carlo was appointed Chief Scientist and R&D Head at Trader.com where he supervised activities in Machine Translation, 3D Imaging, Virtual Communities, Wireless Communication, Wireless Internet, and E-commerce.

He was also a co-founder of the automotive telematics company mFutureLabs, which generated 750,000 USD in its first year before moving operations to Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Currently happily retired, Carlo previously worked at Oracle Corporation, where he first evangelized Oracle's Pervasive Mobile & Wireless capabilities as a differentiator and later promoted the Exadata architecture. He also evaluated, created, and recruited the Near-Shore Consulting/Delivery Center in Warsaw, Poland, responsible for the development and delivery of large-scale global projects, such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Delivery Platform for the Telenor Group and its affiliates.

Resume (PDF | HTML)

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, Berkeley, California, USA
• "MERLIN: An Intelligent Tutoring Shell", Intl Workshop on Human Computer Interfaces, Moscow, 5-8 August 1991.

Presentations

• "<meals@home> the marriage 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 Enterprise, Open Source Applications and Standards Workshop, 16 December 2004, ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France