Ask Canadians if you want to understand Mr. Berlusconi
Non-Italian friends often ask why Italians have voted for Mr. Berlusconi for 20 years, and still do. I try hard, but it is next to impossible »
That Altavista moment
Remember when the best search engine was Altavista? Remember how frustrating it was to look for something on the Net? Search results would be mostly unrelated »
The meta-organism: the Internet and us, is it real?
The Internet has become part of the fabric of our lives; if we want to create the next big thing we must understand the relationship between »
Self and Cognitive Systems
I'll be in Wimbledon for the next three weeks. Fortunately it is much cooler here than in Italy, so I can work more efficiently! I was »
The art of free society
Lately I cannot travel too far for personal reasons, though I expect this to change sooner rather than later; so when I found online about the »
The state of Neuromorphic Engineering as seen from an outsider
Last week I was in Sardinia at the annual Capo Caccia Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop organized by the University of Zurich. This was my third time »
The brain is not a computer
Understanding the brain means being able to replicate some of its functions. A one page description, or a hundred pages will not do. Current technologies, that »
Change, change and change
It is finally becoming mainstream. Economists are slowly appreciating the fact that the current technological progress is so fast and runs so deep into the fabric »
Brains and computers
In a paper by Kozma, I found an interesting citation from The Computer and the Brain, the book that John Von Neumann was writing when he »
Do you have any idea how complex a cell is?
Check out this video produced by Harvard University. It is an amazing shot at trying to convey how complex a cell is. What you see is »