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I am in Lugano at the third conference on artificial general intelligence

Posted 6 March 2010 - 3:38pm

First time it took only 1 hour by train to get to a conference in a different country ;-)

Some presentations are interesting. The conference venue is very good, free WI-FI and fast, power plugs on each chair ...

Short video interview

Posted 20 August 2009 - 4:16am

I was interviewed while attending the conference: How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad. The conference was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Kauffman Foundation. Richard Boly organized the event at Stanford. The interview is about Italy.

San Francisco

Posted 6 August 2009 - 11:38pm

Next 2 weeks in San Francisco.

Back to (Summer) School in Pisa

Posted 23 June 2009 - 12:21pm

Update: I spent 3 great weeks in Pisa working on an interesting project: "A social network of cellular automata". Here I present the project to Stephen Wolfram:

And this is a nice CA rule.

3k r1 Cellular Automaton

I'll spend the next 3 weeks in Pisa, Italy, attending the "A New Kind of Science" Summer School.

San Francisco

Posted 19 May 2009 - 9:08am

I am going to spend the next few days in San Francisco.

Living Technology - Odense, Denmark

Posted 7 March 2009 - 12:53am

Save complications from a nasty Chickenpox (Varicella), and if I do not scratch too much, I'll be attending the Living Technology Workshop in Odense, Denmark (March 17-18).

When I get well I'll have to prepare a 10 minutes presentation.

Dolomite Mountains, Trento, Italy

Posted 30 January 2009 - 5:13pm

I am attending the First Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Evaluation.

The discussion is about the evolution of the scientific paper in the 21st century. There is a pretty diverse group of people attending, from accademia (computer scientists, philosophers, etc), from the industry (mainly scientific publishers), from the EU commission and random people (like me).

As usual people are split between:

Rimini, Italy

Posted 8 September 2008 - 11:18pm

I am in Rimini attending the Perada Summer School; it is about pervasive adaptation ... Feels strange to be back to "school" :-)

Back to Milan

Posted 24 July 2008 - 11:15pm

I had a great time in SF, and now I am back to Milan. A few days here and then I'll be at the AlifeXI conference in the UK.

San Francisco

Posted 24 June 2008 - 9:00pm

I'll be in the Bay Area for a month. This time in Mission. I like the neighborhood so far :-)

Not an easy flight

Posted 18 August 2007 - 4:16pm

I finally got to NYC at 10:00 pm local time, 6 hours late on a 5 hours flight, not bad!

We left San Francisco at 8:00 am, but over Chicago, we started flying in circles, and after a few minutes the captain announced that the FAA was not allowing us to approach NYC for bad weather and lack of air slots.

We landed in Chicago, were not allowed out of the plane, because every 30 min we were waiting for the go ahead. Spent 4 hours sitting in a idle plane :-(

40 miles

Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:33am

The last 2 weeks in the Bay Area have been really productive. The quality and quantity of people that I met is really impressive.

I like technology, so I guess that's the place where it makes sense to be for me. The reality, though, is that it is not just about technology, but also about vision and being able to discuss about the future without limits, either cultural, ideological, or you name it. Not everybody here is this way, but some are, and that's what counts in the end.

Making fun of Web 2.0

Posted 3 August 2007 - 12:20am

I'll be there tomorrow in San Francisco.

Human "artificial" intelligence

Posted 27 July 2007 - 11:34pm

This week I attended the AAAI (Artificial Intelligence) conference in Vancouver.

I was a bit disappointed because I did not find much Artificial Intelligence, but rather a lot of Human Intelligence applied to solve specific problems with the aid of computers. I found a lot of mathematics and logic and a top down approach to task solving, but very little talk about bottom up Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence

Posted 22 July 2007 - 7:04pm

I am in Vancouver at a conference on artificial intelligence. Right now I am part of a workshop about Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence.

There is very little agreement on the subject, which in a way confirms the fact that AI has still a long way to go to create a framework for intelligence. Very interesting stuff ...