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Gianfranco Capriz was born in Gemona del Friuli on October 16,
1925. After grad- uating summa cum laude in mathematics at the
Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (1948) and successfully attending
a one-year doctoral course there (1949), he was appointed by Mauro
Picone as a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale per Ie Appli-
cazioni del Calcolo in Rome (1951-56). At the Institute, while
working at his first research papers, he also served as a
programmer in the staff operating the first general purpose
computer ever installed in Italy. In Rome he met Barbara, who was
shortly to become his wife, and became ac- quainted with Ennio De
Giorgi, Gaetano Fichera, Tristano Manacorda, Carlo Pucci, Michele
Sce, and Edoardo Vesentini, with all of whom he was to maintain
friendly and scientific relationships thereafter. In the same
period he started his research activity in rational mechanics under
the supervision of Antonio Signorini. From Rome he moved to
Stafford (UK) to work for the English Electric Company (1956-62) as
a research mathematician and a programmer of DEUCE, the engineered
version of the pilot machine ACE, originally designed by Alan
Turing. This period of his life ended when Capriz was asked by
Sandro Faedo to return to his country to contribute to the creation
in Pisa of the largest concentration ever in Italy of research and
development activities in computer science and information
technology.
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