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About the Author

Lucio Di Jasio received his MSEE (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Trieste, Italy in 1990, presenting a thesis on the "Simulation of digital logic circuits using the Occam model of parallelism." After graduating, he worked as a software/hardware designer on projects as diverse as Parallel C digital-image processing in industrial-automation applications, Unix C/4GL programming in Supervisory Control And...