Grid people

 
Barbera, Roberto

Roberto Barbera

Name: Roberto Barbera

Age: 44

Project: EELA-2, EGEE-III, EUAsiaGrid, EU-IndiaGRID

Position: Professor

Institution: University of Catania and INFN

Nationality: Italian

Favourite IT technology: the World Wide Web and the Grid

   
  I have coordination roles in several grid projects, both at national and international level. My principal interests are education and training on Grid technology for the benefit of e-Science.
 
    a. From the strictly scientific point of view: because, working in the ALICE Experiment at CERN, I needed to have a computing capable to let me analyze the huge amount of data coming from the detector;
b. From a more general point of view: because grid technology can improve the scientific collaboration of Research Institutions and the competitiveness of Small-Medium Enterprises of my Region (Sicily).
 
Nuclear and Particle Physics.
 
a. The driver of caterpillar tractors (when I was 5),
b. Either an astronomer or a physicist (since I was 13).
 
a. The possibility to use a new emerging technology, such as Grid Computing, to enable cooperation and collaboration among people of different parts of the world belonging to very diverse cultures and traditions;
b. The possibility to actually contribute to the education of a new generation of scientists.
 
Sometimes, the impact it has on my private life.
 
I like to travel worldwide and listen to classical music.
 
Always the same: do better than what I will have done this year.
 
I don’t know but I would certainly encourage them to get into anything they feel it can change the world.
 
A person who can look back to his life and be satisfied of what he did.
 
 
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