Massimo Marchiori
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This biographical article relating to a computer scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Massimo Marchiori is the Italian scientist that without any doubt has contributed in the more significant way to the development of the World Wide Web.
In July, 2004, he was given the prize TR100 by the Technology Review (the best 100 researchers in the world).
He works nowadays in the University of Venice, Italy and in the World Wide Web Consortium.
He is currently teaching "Basi di dati e Sistemi Informativi 2" (Databases and Information Systems 2), "Reti di Elaboratori" (Computer Networks) and "Tecnologie web" (Web technologies) in the University of Padua, Italy.
He is also famous for HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single pages ranks, but also on the relationship between the single pages and the rest of the web. Afterwards, HyperSearch will inspire PageRank, the algorithm on the base of Google.
