Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo is an italian 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.

[1][2] Co-written with the journalist Dominique Nora, this book is now available under the BY-NC-ND Creative Commons licence.

He was one of the founders, and the first president, of the Open Source Thematic Group within the Systematic innovation cluster.

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