> Walter Aprile has graduated in information science at Milan’s State Univeristy.

> After specialising in linguistics and lexicography respectively at Milan’s San Raffaele Institute of Cognitive Sciences Cognitive and Amsterdam university (Holland), Walter collaborates as an editor in Everything2 and as administrator and developer of LittleItaly, the first Italian-based MOO. As well as creating Internet contents in Macintosh environment for one of the first Italian start-ups, Walter works at the development of an automatic Italian-English translation system in capacity as Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA). Later, Walter will become the Telecommunications Director at Ilce, a Mexican distance learning organisation, for which he coordinates the development of Web publications used by over six thousand Mexican schools. From 2001 to 2004 he is associate professor at Ivrea’s Interaction Design Institute, currently committing in a PhD in robotics at Pisa’s Sant’Anna Institute.

> Walter Aprile is an Id-lab partner and deals with its mixed technologies sector.