Ozalp Babaoglu (born August 10, 1955, in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish American computer scientist, Professore Alma Mater at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he was a full professor of computer science from 1988 to 2025, and president of the ELICSIR Foundation. He received a PhD in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, and before moving to Bologna in 1988 was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He has participated in several European research projects in distributed computing and complex systems, is an ACM Fellow, and received the 1982 Sakrison Memorial Award, the 1989 UNIX International Recognition Award and the 1993 USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the UNIX system community and to open industry standards.
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Özalp Babaoğlu (born August 10, 1955) is a Turkish-American computer scientist specializing in operating systems, distributed computing, fault tolerance, self-organization, and the application of machine learning to high-performance computing systems. He holds the position of "Professore Alma Mater" at the University of Bologna, where he was a full professor of computer science from 1988 to 2025.
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Özalp Babaoğlu (born August 10, 1955) is a Turkish-American computer scientist specializing in operating systems, distributed computing, fault tolerance, self-organization, and the application of machine learning to high-performance computing systems.
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Contribution to BSD Unix and implementing virtual memory support; Fault-tolerant distributed computing; Biology and nature-inspired computing.
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