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For those interested in understanding where computers come from. Technology as humble as the keyboard, the mouse or hi-def CRT, video cameras, the word processor or video conferencing. This was

This is a very well written article about how git and github could be used to re-engineer government processes. As with most innovations that the Internet has brought about, git

I moved a few months ago. Sevenoaks is a beautiful little town 25 minutes by train from London. Lots of green, great schools, very safe and good healthcare. As any

This is not the first time, always came back. Maybe this time is different, maybe not!

I walk when I really want to concentrate and think about new ideas. And there is a reason why I do that: it seems that I am actually using the

Bitcoin was created to decentralize money and will probably be used to achieve decentralized trust with group authority. Defining rules, and making sure they are not tampered with, is what

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 to explain; Italians, they

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 to what you where

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 the Internet and us

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 expecting to sleep without

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 Unconventional Computation Conference to

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 at the workshop, so

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 allow us to emulate

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 of our world that

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 died: It is only

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 just a simplification of

Today I took sometime off to read a classical paper from Weaver: Science and Complexity. The paper was published in 1948, many years before computers were first available at Universities,

The two weeks I spent in Capocaccia were worth the trip. The Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering workshop, organized by the University of Zurich, is an interesting mix of engineering, science, math

This is a rather cryptic post, so bare with me. I just want to remember where I am and maybe get some feedback. Let's get started: Artificial Intelligence and mathematics

It looks like it is decision time for Italy. The markets will not allow more debt, so it is now about time to take Italy into the current century by

What you work on affects your ability to see the world. I haven't had time to write a structured post in a while, mostly because I have been looking into

More than one type of re-balancing needed. One of the recurring themes of the current economic crisis is the idea of re-balancing the global economy. But where are the imbalances?

I spent the Christmas Holidays in Naples with my parents. A few days after the traditional family meetings were over, I organized a lunch with friends (and friends of friends)

Do you ever have the feeling that you can see technology changing around you – and you see it accelerating? You see the impact on society of this or that new

Once upon a time there were few outlets for information. The world was explained to us by a handful of journalists who mostly got the inspiration from each other (shall