Education
Born in Milan, Italy, he studied Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university.
engineer programmer computer scientist
Born in Milan, Italy, he studied Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university.
He wrote a port of x64, a Commodore 64 emulator for Unix, to DOS, thus turning it into a cross-platform emulator, which was renamed to VICE. He has been a maintainer of VICE for many years, and started the Microsoft Windows port, which is now the most popular version of VICE. He then started contributing to GNOME, a Linux desktop environment. He helped in writing GtkHTML, Nautilus and Evolution. He accepted and in 2001 moved to Boston, United States, where Ximian was headquartered.
At Ximian he led the effort to create Evolution and remained the project manager until he died.
He started writing an application for managing digital photo albums, in C#, for personal use. On November 8, 2003, he published it on GNOME Concurrent Versions System (Caremark Corporation) server, with the name F-Spot.
On December 12, 2003, the GnomeDesktop.org website announced his death.