Dario de Judicibus

Who is Dario de Judicibus?

LIFE

Born in Brescia, Dario de Judicibus has a Laurea degree in Physics obtained in 1984, and joined IBM in 1986, where he worked as a consultant. He is an expert of problem solving and decision taking methodologies. After a period that he dedicated to researches in software reuse and object-oriented programming, he began to work on knowledge management, being a pioneer in his country. He was invited as a speaker on that subject in various Italian universities and academic institutes.

In 1999 he founded Padri ad Ore (part-time fathers), an association sustaining the Coparenting Principle, which states that a child has the right to continue to maintain a strong relationship with both parents even if divorced. In 2003 he founded, with other associations, the Italian National Federation for Coparenting (Fe.N.Bi.), of which he is national councilor. The mission of Fe.N.Bi. is to sustain peer opportunities between parents in divorces, and advocate coparenting principle.

In 2004 he founded the digital magazine L'Indipendente (ISSN 1824-8950); among his collaborators there are few journalists. In 2007 he founded the official island of IBM Italy in Second Life.

PUBS

Dario de Judicibus wrote several articles on Italian computer magazines as MC Microcomputer, Internet News and internet.pro. He is also author of two books about Internet, and two essays of psychology. In 2006 he has published his first novel of fantasy: «La Lama Nera» (The Black Blade). In 2007 he has published a short story about Second Life. In 2008 he published a short story in a thriller anthology.

* «TCP/IP in pillole», Tecniche Nuove, 2002 (1999⊃;), ISBN 88-481-1441-5

* «Imparare XML in 6 ore», Tecniche Nuove, 2000 ISBN 88-481-1098-3

* «Le 10 Regole dei Buoni Genitori», Armenia, 2003, ISBN 88-344-1505-1

* «Le 10 Regole per Vivere Sereni», Armenia, 2005, ISBN 88-344-1803-4

* «La Lama Nera», First volume of the «Cycle of Black Blade», Armenia, 2006, ISBN 88-344-1882-4

* «Fino alla fine dell'eternità» (Till the end of eternity), Creative Commons 3.0

* «Scacco matto all'assassino», in antology «GialloScacchi — Racconti di sangue e di mistero», Ediscere, 2008, ISBN 88-88928-33-2

* «Le 10 regole per Vivere Felici con un Gatto», Armenia, 2010, ISBN 88-344-2431-X

WORKS

Dario de Judicibus is also co-author of Old Italics block in The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0 with Deborah Anderson, Carl-Martin Bunz, Joseph Eska, Stefan Schumacher, Brent Vine, and Rex Wallace. He is also the Italian member of the Dictionary Team, a no-profit group of worldwide volunteers that develops and distributes free dictionaries in the web. In the Italian site there are more than 90 downloadable free dictionaries.

LITERARY AGENCY

Since October 1st, 2009 he is represented by TomatoFarm literary agency: http://www.tomatofarm.it