Massimo Marchiori (born 1970 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian computer scientist who made major contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.
In July, 2004, he was given the prize TR100 by the Technology Review (the best 100 researchers in the world).
He is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Padua, and Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the World Wide Web Consortium.
He was the creator of HyperSearch, a search engine where the results were based not only on single pages ranks, but also on the relationship between the single pages and the rest of the web. Afterwards, Google co-founders Page and Brin cited HyperSearch when they introduced PageRank.[1]
He is one of the co-authors of the world standard for privacy on the Web, P3P.
He started the XML Query effort at W3C, and is one of the authors of the XQuery family of world standard for querying information on the Web.
He is also one of the authors of the Web Ontology Language (OWL), the world standard for reasoning on the Web.
He is currently teaching "Basi di dati e Sistemi Informativi 2" (Databases and Information Systems 2), "Reti di Elaboratori" (Computer Networks) and "Tecnologie web" (Web technologies) in the University of Padua, Italy. From April 2010 he is Chief Technology Officer of Atomium Culture[2].