Luigi Dadda was an Italian computer engineer, best known for the design of the Dadda multiplier and as one of the first researchers on modern computers in Italy.
12 Facts About Luigi Dadda
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Luigi Dadda was rector at the Politecnico di Milano technical university from 1972 to 1984, collaborating on research at the same university until 2012.
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Luigi Dadda studied electrical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and graduated in 1947 with a thesis on signal transmission, a microwave radio bridge between the cities of Turin and Trieste.
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Since dismantling the machine to apply the slips was out of question, the customs allowed Luigi Dadda to pay the tax as a forfeit and gave him a pack of slips to apply on the machine "as soon as possible".
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Luigi Dadda reached the status of a full professor at the Politecnico in 1960 and was assigned the Electrical Engineering chair from 1962.
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Luigi Dadda then moved to studying Petri net as a paradigm for the design of complex control systems.
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Luigi Dadda has served as the director of the Computing Center and then of the Computer Architectures Lab of the "Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione" of the Politecnico di Milano university.
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Luigi Dadda was a founding member of the Italian Association for Computing in 1961 and a co-founder and director of the distinguished Italian journal of computer science: Rivista di Informatica.
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Luigi Dadda was the proposer of the European Information Network, realized by CEE under the project COST 11.
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Luigi Dadda served as the president of the ALARI Institute at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland for over a decade.
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Luigi Dadda was member of the Technical Committee and advisor in the Board of directors of CSELT.
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Luigi Dadda died on October 26,2012, in Milano, Italy at the age of 89.