Abstract: Cloud Computing during the time has gained concrete evidence to be a disruptive technology still in its full development. Many drawbacks of the Cloud have brought to improve many their crucial aspects, like performance, security and privacy, etc. Today Edge Computing try to deal with these implications to make them less problematic and much more feasible. Starting from the NIST definition (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), the talk looks at the last decade of ICT evolution preparing the systems for new ICT challenges and implementations, like AI algorithms on top of them.
Lecturer Short CV: Massimo Villari is Full Professor in Computer Science at University of Messina (Italy). He is actively working as IT Security and Distributed Systems Analyst in Cloud and Edge Computing, virtualization and Storage, Federated Learning and one of the creators of Osmotic Computing Paradigm. For the EU Projects “RESERVOIR” he leaded the IT security activities of the whole project. For the EU Project “VISION-CLOUD” and “H2020-BEACON”, he covered the role of architectural designer for UniME. He was Scientific ICT Responsible in the EU Project frontierCities, the Accelerator of FIWARE on Smart Cities – Smart Mobility. He is strongly involved in EU Innovation initiatives, and also, he covers the role of EU external expert. Currently, he is Scientific ICT Responsible for UniME of “TEMA” and “NEUROKIT-2E” Horizon Europe Projects. He is co-author of more of 250 scientific publications and patents in Cloud Computing (Cloud Federation), Distributed Systems, Wireless Network, Network Security, Cloud Security and Cloud, Edge and IoTs, and recently in Osmotic Computing and AI. He was General Chair of ESOCC 2015 and IEEE-ISCC 2016. In 2014 he was recognized by an independent assessment (IEEE Cloud Computing Transaction, Issue April 2014) as one of World-Wide active scientific researchers, top 27 classification, in Cloud Computing Area. He was General Chair of IEEE-ICFEC 2019 and General Co-Chair in IEEE-CCGRID2022. He was also General Chair of IEEE ISCC2022, and ACM/IEEE UCC2023 and ACM/IEEE BDCAT2023 and will be GC of IEEE ISCC2024. He is in the Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists list of the Stanford University in Computer Science. He is a Co-Founder of UniME Spin-Off Alma Digit S.R.L since 2017. He was Rector delegate on ICT for whole University of Messina and Academic and Consultant for the Messina Municipality in the Area of Smart Cities. Currently he is the Head of Computer Science and Data Science Schools.