currently an associate editor of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer Science+Business Media), and Software Process Improvement and Practice (John Wiley & Sons). Research His research has been constantly focused on different facets of software engineering and programming languages. Currently, he is active in the area of software architectures, especially evolvable and distributed software architectures for ubiquitous and pervasive computer applications. His long-term goal has been to contribute to making software more and more dependable, basing it on solid and rigorous methodological and theoretical foundations. Ghezzi has co-authored over 180 papers, almost all of which are published internationally. His papers appeared on prestigious journals like the Journal of the ACM, Information and Control (now Information and Computation), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He is the co-author of 8 books, including: Programming Language Concepts. With M. Jazayeri. (First edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1982; . Second edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1987; . Third edition: John Wiley & Sons, 1998; ) Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science. With D. Mandrioli. (John Wiley & Sons, 1987; ) Fundamentals of Software Engineering. With M. Jazayeri and D. Mandrioli. (First edition: Prentice Hall, 1991; . Second edition: Prentice Hall, 2003; ) In 2008, he has been awarded an Advanced Investigators Grant from the European Research Council, funding the SMSCOM project. References External links Personal web site Publications list on DBLP ICSE 2009 keynote slides and discussion Living people Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Milan Software engineering researchers Programming language researchers Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Academic staff of the University of Lugano Year of birth missing (living people)