What is dib
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bari has about fifty
teachers, including full professors, associate professors and assistant
professors, as well as fourteen technicians, all employed in teaching and
numerous research projects in the field of Computer Science and Information
Technology, both at a national and international level. The Department of
Computer Science forms a qualified link in many excellent networks in the
European Community, regarding Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning, Agent-based Computing and Knowledge Discovery in large
Databases. The Department of Computer Science was born as the Institute of
Information Science (in 1984), formed by a nucleus of teachers from the fields
of electronics, cybernetics and computer science, who had already initiated a
degree course in Information Science in 1970 (the second in Italy after Pisa in
1969).
The Department of Computer Science aims to carry out applied research and to
develop and transfer technologies which support the process of passing from
today’s reality to the ICT society.The Department’s strategy follows three main lines:
- advanced research for the study, development and application of new methods
and informatics techniques,
- technological transfer through development projects in collaboration with
outside organizations, in order to guarantee the continual flow of university
research results to the end user and to further the use of emerging
technologies,.
- university teaching in under-graduate degree courses, post-graduate
specialization courses and doctorate courses, in order to ensure the training of
experts and professionals able to support technological development.
The short to medium-term strategies aim to retrieve the efficiency and efficacy
of the tools which support scientific research, by increasing the value of the
results. They aim to reinforce basic and applied research in Computer Science
and to stimulate the recession of these studies by the re-qualification of
enterprises, promoting the application of the results in sectors such as:
- the construction and maintenance of applications software, by means
of innovative technologies in software engineering, which are suitable for small
to medium-sized enterprises,
- the development of cooperative systems, oriented towards electronic
commerce, business intelligence and e-learning,
- the study of innovative techniques for distributed informative
systems in territorial management,
- the optimal management of knowledge bases and communication
networks, by improving the information access and knowledge retrieval processes,
- the improvement of man-machine interaction,
- the automatic processing of documents, practicable in building and
maintaining large repositories, even distributed ones, of multi-medial documents
from eterogeneous sources.
