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  **Educational Technologies**.
 
  * [[http://www.unifi.it/ | Unviersità degli Studi di Firenze]] -- I attended only one term of
- **Software Engineering** (computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**).
- In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging field of
+ **Software Engineering** (Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**).
+ In 1995, I dropped out to work for a startup in the emerging industry of
  enterprise networking.
 
- * [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- High-school diploma
- in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**.
- The track included good amounts of **Electric Engineering**.
+ * [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- Diploma
+ in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**. The curriculum included good
+ amounts of **electric engineering**.
 
 === Reading List ===
 
-My favorite books of computer science and software engineering:
+My favorite books of CS and engineering:
 
  * **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
 
  * **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
  CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still brilliant,
  "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
-o
+
  * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
  theoretical and boring.  My favorite will always be [[http://www.apuebook.com/|Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment]] by Richard Stevens.
  I also recommend [[http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/|The Art of Unix Programming]].