The Update Problem in the Distributed Database System Hermes/1

He was born in Modena (Italy) on May 4th, 1952. After secondary education (Liceo Scientifico), he attended the University of Pisa (Italy), at the Department of Computer Science. He was awarded of a scholarship from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) to found a thesis on the design and implementation techniques for a highly parallel operating system. He also assisted the implementation of the prototype operating system in Assembler under IBM VM/370. On July 8, 1976, he received the “Laurea” degree in Computer Science, with full marks and honors (110/110 "cum laude").