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Guest Lecturers

In questa sezione verranno inseriti i Guest Lecturers del corso Rivoluzione Digitale per l'anno accademico 2017/2018.




Carlo BlenginoStudio Legale Catalano Penalisti Associati

Carlo Blengino lives in Turin and is a lawyer and a partner of the legal firm “Studio Legale Catalano Penalisti Associati”. He deals exclusively with criminal law cases, with special reference to culpable crimes, professional liabilities, economics criminal laws, intellectual property rights, crimes involved with IT and new technologies, defense of privacy and personal data. Since the early nineties, he has debated in law courts the main issues of copyright, from CDs rental to campaigns for file sharing (among his many defenses, the one in the well-known sentence on downloading -Cass.149/07- and the defense of many users in the Peppermint case). He thus gained a concrete experience of sanctions in the area of copyright law. He is a member of the IT Commission within the Bar Council of Turin. He contributes to several on-line magazines, to the magazine “Diritto dell’Informazione e dell’Informatica” of the Calamandrei Foundation and his works are published by Giappichelli Editore, UTET Giuridica and EGEA. He is a fellow of Nexa Center for Internet & Society of Turin Polytechnic.



Alessio MelandriPolitecnico di Torino

Alessio Melandri is full stack developer at Synapta in Turin, company specialized in the semantic Web and data driven applications. Having graduated in software engineering at Politecnico di Torino he has experience as programmer, in particular he works with data, refining, quering, providing visualizations and evaluating its quality. He joined the Nexa Center in 2014 after the course Rivoluzione Digitale held by Professor Juan Carlos De Martin. During 2014-2015 he collaborated with Nexa as intern, developing software, contributing to TellMeFirst and linked data projects. He has also experience in the open data field collaborating to Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.