Sebastiano Vigna


Sebastiano Vigna is a professor of computer science at the University of Milan. He created the xorshift+ and xoroshiro128+ pseudorandom number generators. Xorshift128+ is used in the javascript engines of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. In 1991, he received a laurea in Mathematics and in 1996 a Ph.D. in computer science; both from the University of Milan. He developed UbiCrawler, a web crawler, in a collaboration with others.