- Microsoft Research - Type theory and operational semantics, mostly for applications to language design, semantics, and implementation. Semantic and type-theoretic foundations of object-oriented languages. Global and mobile computation issues.
- University of Sussex at Brighton - Natural language processing, stochastic lexicalized grammars, shallow parsing and knowledge extraction, parsing disambiguation and efficiency, parser evaluation, large-scale grammar and lexicon development, linguistic approaches to surface generation.
- Politecnico di Milano - Extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules; object-orientation design methods for data-intensive web sites.
- Brown University - Influential researcher in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His home page features some of his publications, in postscript.
- University of Udine - Knowledge-based systems (diagnosis, temporal reasoning, modeling of physical systems, qualitative reasoning) and human-computer interaction (desktop virtual reality, information visualization, 3d, multimedia and multimodal interfaces).
- University of Bologna - Content-based retrieval, data models, query languages, similarity queries, fuzzy retrieval, the M-tree, signature files, grid files, schema-based navigation, structures on the web.