Roberto Giorgi's (about 100 words) Biography as of January 2010 Roberto Giorgi is an Associate Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy. He was Research Associate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering and his Master in Electronics Engineering, Magna cum Laude both from University of Pisa, Italy. He is the coordinator of the European Project TERAFLUX in the area of Future and Emerging Technologies for Teradevice Computing. He is participating in the European projects HiPEAC (High Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compiler), SARC (Scalable ARChitectures), ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures). He contributed to ChARM project with VLSI Technologies Inc., San Jose. His current interests include Computer Architecture themes such as Embedded Systems, Multiprocessors, Memory System Performance, Workload Characterization. E-mail: See Homepage --> http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi. Roberto Giorgi's (about 150 words) Biography as of January 2010 Roberto Giorgi is an Associate Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy. He was Research Associate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering and his Master in Electronics Engineering, Magna cum Laude both from University of Pisa, Italy. He is the coordinator of the European Project TERAFLUX in the area of Future and Emerging Technologies for Teradevice Computing. He is participating in the European projects HiPEAC (High Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compiler) and SARC (Scalable ARChitectures), ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures). He took part in ChARM project, developing software for performance evaluation of ARM-processor based embedded systems with cache memory, for VLSI Technologies Inc., San Jose. He has been selected by the European Commission as an independent expert. His current interests include Computer Architecture themes such as Embedded Systems, Multiprocessors, Memory System Performance, Workload Characterization. He is member of ACM and Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society. E-mail: See Homepage --> http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi. Roberto Giorgi's Biography as of January 2010 Roberto Giorgi is an Associate Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy. He is member of the Center for Complex Systems at University of Siena, Italy. He was Research Associate at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering and his MS in Electronics Engineering, Magna cum Laude both from University of Pisa, Italy. He is the coordinator of the European Project TERAFLUX in the area of Future and Emerging Technologies for Teradevice Computing. He is participating in the European projects HiPEAC (High Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compiler) and SARC (Scalable ARChitectures), ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures). He took part in ChARM project, developing software for performance evaluation of ARM-processor based embedded systems with cache memory, for VLSI Technologies Inc., San Jose (which later became Philips Semiconductor and now NXP). He has been IEEE Judge for the IEEE-CSIDC (Computer Society International Design Competition). He led the project "Bluesign Translator", which received a 5th worldwide prize by IEEE, ABB, AMD, EMC, HP, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motrola, SAIC, Sun, and received the FORUM-P.A. prize by the Italian Ministry of Technological and Scientific Innovation, CNIPA, ASPHI, Ericsson as absolute winner in the category of "actions for the social integration of disadvantaged actions through ICT". He has been selected by the European Commission as an independent expert for evaluating the European Project SHAPES (Scalable Software Hardware Architecture Platform for Embedded Systems). He is co-author of more than 60 scientific papers. His current interests include Computer Architecture themes such as Embedded Systems, Multiprocessors, Memory System Performance, Workload Characterization. He is member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence (High Performance Embedded-system Architecture and Compilation). He is member of ACM and Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society. E-mail: See Homepage --> http://www.dii.unisi.it/~giorgi.