Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the New Initiative Committee and co-chairs the Digital Reality Initiative. He is a member of the IEEE in 2050 Ad Hoc Committee. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.

Morphing a drone into a hummingbird

The news is not a recent one, goes back to 2019 and in technology one year is quite a long time, but what it makes it relevant today is its application in real life. Researchers at Purdue University, probably fascinated by the amazing capabilities of hummingbirds to hover with an …

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Is “NowCasting” the Future?

A good side effect of the ongoing epidemic (we’ve got to search also for some upside…) is the concerted efforts of scientists and researchers all around the world. Being quick is important and this is one of the reasons why rather than trying to invent something out of the blue …

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The Venn Room

As I am locked down I turn to the cyberspace to regain a bit of freedom and maintain some sort of human touch. The use of Bluejeans, Skype, Teams, Zoom and similar has increased significantly, in synch with the epidemic, I would say. That is fine, and actually I am …

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If it can be done… it will

In these times of Governments and Healthcare institutions looking for a digital tool to monitor and contain the epidemic by using an app a number of critics are voicing against this approach because of privacy and security concern. What in the beginning is designed as an app to fight the …

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