Dipartimento di Informatica

In the 1970s at The University of Bari a degree course was born (the second course activated in Italy after Pisa in 1969) called the Degree Course in Information Science. This name was changed to the Degree Course in Computer Science in 1992, according to the new national order which made the course of studies last 5 years instead of 4, and at the same time instituted a mini-degree called the Diploma in Computer Science. According to the latest university reform, the University of Bari instituted the following courses of study, which substitute all the previous ones: • Under-graduate Degree Course in Computer Science (in force since 2001-2002) • Under-graduate Degree Course in Computer Science and Digital Communication (in force since 2001-2002) • Under-graduate Degree Course in Computer Science and Technologies for Software Production (in force since 2003-2004)

Post-graduate School of Specialization in Computer Science (in force since 2002-2003)

PhD Course in Computer Science (in force since 2001-2002)

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.