Born in 1935, Raffaele Meo is a full professor of Information Elaboration Systems at the Polytechnic of Turin. He has pioneered works in the digital elaboration of signals, and he was one of the first to produce an automatic voice recognizer. He has also realized notable results in the field of codification which have opened the way for new scientific developments and applications. His personal engagement on research has gone with his commitment to promote the scientific and educational activity on informatics, delivering TV courses within the Nettuno Project. He has been the headmaster of the C.N.R. Progetto Finalizzato Informatica, of Centro di ricerca sull’Elaborazione Numerale dei Segnali, and of Centro di Supercalcolo del Piemonte.
His work has been awarded the Lori and Bonavera prizes for Electrical Engineering, the Italgas Ricerca e Innovazione per l’Informatica prize (1987), and the Premio Galileo for mathematical reporting. Meo is a national associate of Accademia delle Scienze and he is among the founders of CentroScienza.

Open Source Technologies for Streaming and Videoconferences
(Tecnologie Open Source per lo streaming e le videoconferenze)

First of all the global free software world and the scenario of market, technologies and Internet tools for multimediality will be analyzed. Subsequently, some new solutions to achieve the streaming and the videoconference by means of Free and Open Source Tools will be presented. In particular, the most advanced Italian projects in the domain will be illustrated, focusing the attention on the Feng Project by Polytechnic of Turin.
During the conference, moreover, the project for a Video Sharing Platform – named Web Esof – dedicated to the educational world will be exclusive presented. Web Esof is a multimedia environment that aims to offer to all the world, and to the developing countries in particular, the chance to participate actively in conferences and debates.
In virtue of its low access barriers, Web Esof has already been surnamed the You Tube for School and Science, and it has been the winner hands-down for the election of Turin as the hosting location of Euroscience Open Forum 2010, the biggest European Forum devoted to scientific research and technological innovation.