Salvatore Rinzivillo was born in 1976 in Ragusa, and holds a Laurea degree in Computer Science (University of Catania, 2001). Since 2002 he has been a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. His current research interests are data mining and knowledge discovery in spatial databases. Now he is collaborating for a course on Network Programming to be held at the faculty of Computer science at the University of Pisa.