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 === Formal studies ===
 
- * Undergraduate courses of Mathematics and Educational Technologies at the
- HarvardExtensionSchool (2009).
+ * [[http://www.extension.harvard.edu/ | Harvard Extension School]] -- Undergraduate courses of **Mathematics** and
+ **Educational Technologies**.
 
- * Attended one term of Software Engineering course at Unviersita' degli
- Studi di Firenze in 1994. Computer Science exam **30/30 cum laude**.
- In 1995 I dropped out of the university to accept a job as an
- EmployedWorker for a small company, and a few months later for SeacCompany.
+ * [[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
+ enterprise networking.
 
- * Undergraduate diploma in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with
- a rating of **56 out of 60**.  Obtained in 1993 at the Istituto Tecnico
- Commerciale "A.Volta", Firenze.  This course included a good amount of
- **Electronic Engineering**.
+ * [[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**. 
+ This course included a good amount of **Electronic Engineering**.
 
 === Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
 
-Over the years I tried to compensate for lack of proper university-grade
-education by making the local libraries much richer:
+To compensate for the lack of good formal education, I became a good customer of the local libraries:
 
- * **Compilers**, reading several textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
+ * **Compilers**, reading plenty of textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
  and many others.
 
  * **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
  CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still
-brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
+ brilliant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
  
  * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which quite
  theoretical and boring.  Of course, my favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
@@ -37,7 +35,7 @@ brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
 
  * **Programming Techniques** -- Countless.  Such as SeePlusPlusTemplateMetaprogramming
  and the controversial ModernSeePlusPlusDesign by AndreiAlexandrescu.
- My absolute favourite is BrianKernighan's and RobPike's ThePracticeOfProgramming.
+ My absolute favourite is Brian Kernighan's and Rob Pike's [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ | The Practice of Programming]].
 
  * **Software Architecture and Design** -- All the "must-read" classics such as
  GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.