Roberto Di Cosmo

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Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo is a computer scientist and director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free software (French: Initiative pour la Recherche et l'Innovation sur le Logiciel Libre).

He graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and obtained a PhD from the University of Pisa, before becoming tenured professor at the École normale supérieure in Paris,[1] then professor at the Paris 7 University. Since 2010, he has been director of the IRILL.

Di Cosmo was an early member of the , association of the French community of Linux and Free Software users and is also known for his support of the Open Source Software movement.

He became famous after releasing a paper criticizing Microsoft in 1998, entitled Piège dans le cyberespace ().[1][2] Co-written with the journalist , this book is now available under the BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence. His most famous contribution to Linux is the first "live" Linux distribution (2000 to 2002), demolinux, which made it possible to boot Linux from a CD-ROM without setting up the entire distribution.

He was one of the founders, and the first president, of the within the Systematic innovation cluster.[3]

Di Cosmo is a member of the Board of Trustees at the IMDEA Software Institute.[4]

On June 30, 2016, Inria announced the creation of the Software Heritage initiative, which was conceived and is directed by Roberto Di Cosmo.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "The future of Microsoft", BBC, 2 May 1999, retrieved 2011-07-12
  2. ^ "Reviewed Work: Hijacking the World: The Dark Side of Microsoft by Dominique Nora, Roberto Di Cosmo, Kirk McElhearn Review by: Jack Kessler The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy Vol. 69, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 531-533"
  3. ^ "Free Software Thematic Group home page"
  4. ^ "IMDEA Software Board of Trustees"

External links[]

  • Own Page
  • Hijacking the world free under licence CC-BY-NC-ND. Printed: Calmann-Levy 1998, ISBN 2-7021-2923-4
  • Demolinux
  • Interview of Roberto Di Cosmo in I-CIO, July 2009
  • Introducing Software Heritage, the Library of Alexandria for Code, Slate, July 2016
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