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 and biology.

I was there four years ago, when the main topic was the design of the Neuromorphic chips that are now available for experiments, together with sensors like the Silicon Retina developed by Toby (watch the video below). 

In a few days, I'll be attending the Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop organized by the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the ETH in Zurich.

I was there 4 years ago, when I had just started to look into Biology Inspired Algorithms. It will be interesting to find out what has changed, what are the new theories and what has been abandoned.

Now, I have my own theories, and I am working to merge them with the Internet.

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 restructuring the whole political and economic system.

This blog has been quiet for a while now.

Part of the reason is that I have been looking into JavaScript and Nodejs. I wrote some test code, debugged it, trying to understand a completely different programming paradigm: event based programming.

Once you start looking into JavaScript, you realize that it also shares so much with LISP ... I remember not liking LISP, even though, a long time ago, I had to write parts of a LISP interpreter in C.

If you're interested in mobile devices you should read this post by Charbax.

He is an independent blogger who scouts conferences around the world, films new gadgets and uploads videos to Youtube.

He seems to have a pretty good grasp on the near term future of mobile devices.

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) with backgrounds in Engineering, Computer Science and Complex Systems. Some of them are teaching in Italy and the US, others have start-up companies. This kind of lunch is good to exchange ideas and get up to date with what they have been doing.

A recent paper compares the transcriptional regulatory network of a cell to the Linux call graph. The comparison is intriguing in light of the different directed graphs that emerge from the analysis.

I spent the last few days looking into node.js. I find it interesting because it has some of the features I was looking for in my quest for building a bio-inspired Net. I guess it was developed with different specs in mind, but funny enough, it sports some of what I'm looking for. Node.js, the name itself, is telling.

It is based on JavaScript and Google's V8 Engine.