Ada Fort received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in1989. She received the Ph.D. degree in Non Destructive Testing from the same University in 1992. Now she is an associate professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Siena. Her interests concern the development of measurement systems based on chemical and ultrasonic sensors, and the development of automatic fault diagnosis systems. Recently she has been involved in the study and the development of random number generators based on chaotic maps.