Stefano Zacchiroli is full professor of computer science at Télécom
Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris. His current research interests
span digital commons, open source software engineering, computer
security, and the software supply chain. He is co-founder and CSO (Chief
Scientific Officer) of Software Heritage, the largest public archive of
software source code. He is a former 3-times Debian project leader and a
former board director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). He is
recipient of the 2015 O’Reilly Open Source Award and of the 2022 Google
Award for Inclusion Research.
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Roberto Di Cosmo holds degrees from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and
a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa. He was an
associate professor at École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and, since 1999,
a full professor at University Paris Diderot, where he led doctoral
studies (2004–2009). He is president of the board of trustees and of the
scientific advisory board of the IMDEA Software Institute, chair of the
Software chapter of France’s National Committee for Open Science, and is
currently on leave at Inria.
His research spans theoretical computing, functional, parallel and
distributed programming, language semantics and type systems, and static
analysis of large Free Software collections. He has published over 20
journal and 50 conference papers.
In 2008 he created and coordinated MANCOOSI, a €4.4M European project
with 10 partners to improve package-based open-source systems. A
long-time Free Software advocate since 1998 and author of Hijacking the
World, he created Systematic’s Free Software thematic group in 2007,
helping fund 50+ open-source R&D projects (~€200M). He directed IRILL
(2010–2018). In 2015 he founded and now directs Software Heritage, a
UNESCO-partnered initiative to archive all publicly available source
code.
Open source communities are the backbone of open source innovation and acceleration, and this Special Recognition for their contribution to Community Impact is dedicated to the communities that have made a demonstrable positive impact on the open source ecosystem or in advancing the interests of open source collaboration and innovation.