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. http://www.luca.demon.co.uk/
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 http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~chittaro/
Politecnico di Milano - Extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules; object-orientation design methods for data-intensive web sites. http://www.elet.polimi.it/upload/ceri/index.html
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 ap http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/carroll.html
Brown University - Influential researcher in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His home page features some of his publications, in postscript. http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/home.html