Roberto Di Cosmo (http://www.dicosmo.org) holds a PhD in Computer Science and is currently full professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot, after teaching for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Sup~rieure in Paris, and spending a few years at INRIA.
He has been actively involved in research in theoretical computing, specifically in functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, the semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting and linear logic.
Following the evolution of our society under the impact of IT with great interest, he has been a Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998 with the best-seller "Hijacking the world" (http://www.dicosmo.org/HoldUp/index.html.en), seminars, articles and software. He has created the Free Software thematic group of System@tic (http://gt-logiciel-libre.org) in October 2007, and coordinates the Mancoosi (http://www.mancoosi.org) european project dedicated to improving the quality of GNU/Linux distributions.
