Francesco Silvestri
PhD University of Padova, 2009

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Not only research...

I've been married with Elisa Salvagnin since 2009.
I'm a supporter of clown care in hospitals and I'm a clown doctor of the Dottor Clown Padova association. Soon or later, I'll put here some scientific papers on clown care!
When I had more free time (some years ago when I was a student...), I enjoyed fencing, running marathons and cross-country skiing. Now, I barely go jogging.

Some videos I really like

Some links (some outdated)

Computer Science

• Software released by the Advanced Computing Group (like FEMS)
• Notes on Linux (Appunti di informatica libera), in Italian
• Use Debian, or Slackware, or whatever (Distrowatch)!!!
• OCW: hundred lecture notes on courses of Computer Science, by MIT.Of course, OCW is wider, have a look at main page: OCW!!!!!!
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Data Compression survey
• Montebelluna (Italy) Linux Group
• Computer Science Bibliography

Math

• Notes (books, manuscripts, ...) about math courses of J. Milne (Galois Theory, Elliptic Curves, ...)
• The web's most extensive mathematics resource (Mathworld)
• Resources on Game Theory
• OCW: hundred lecture notes on courses of Mathematics, by MIT.
• A java applet for operations with integers of arbitrarily long length (usefull for exercises of cryptography!)
• A web application for symbolic integration, by Wolfram

Blogs

• Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator: it collects content from many of the best TCS blogs online
• My Slice Of Pizza (by S. Muthukrishnan)
• Computational Complexity (by Bill Gasarch)
• Bit-Player (by Brian Hayes)
• WebDiarios de Motocicleta (by Mihai Pătraşcu)
• In Theory (by Luca Trevisan)
• My Biased Coin (by Michael Mitzenmacher)
• Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity (by Sariel Har-Peled)
• Italians (by Beppe Severgnini), in Italian
• Beppe Grillo's Blog, in Italian

Media

• Corriere della Sera, in Italian
• Repubblica, in Italian
• CNN
• BBC
• KMFA radio: only classical music
• Listen your favourite songs for free!!!
• TED: Ideas worth spreading

Languages: Italian, English, ...

• ESL, Learn the English language with online help and tips from volunteer teachers all over the world.
• LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
• Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
• Online translation dictionaries: Ita-Eng, Eng-Ita, Spa-Eng, Eng-Spa, Fre-Eng, Eng-Fre
• Italian dictionary
• English dictionary

Misc

• A time zone converter (it's useful for deadlines...)
• Utilities for IP addresses