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.

Using WiFi as Peeping Tom

Electromagnetic signals are affected by the environment, and part of the environment is … us. As we move in an electromagnetic field we are creating a disruption (we adsorb and reflect part of the field). This happens to the television signals we are receiving at home as well as with …

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A personal camera up in the sky

There are plenty of satellites up there in the sky (if you want to take a look watch this clip). However these satellites are controlled by big companies and although the cost of individual satellite has plummeted it is still beyond the affordability of all of us and it is …

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Celebrating in the air the last 747

OK, this is not really about technology, it mostly has to do with my youth. Back in 1972 I took my first flight with a 747 (Milan to Montreal) and I was amazed by its size, inside and outside. After 50 years and hundreds of flights on all its version …

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DX and Customer Experience

The experience, both at the customer/user level and at the level of living in an environment, such as a working environment, is becoming more and more important. As product and service offering tend to multiply and become more and more similar, the winning element becomes the experiential aspect. Think about …

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Who is the writer?

I have been an IEEE member for longer than I care to remember and one recurrent question in these last 30+ years of involvement with various groups was to be aware for plagiarism when reviewing an article. Did the author produced a brand new article, did he borrowed from others …

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Eyes off

Mercedes Benz is the first car automaker to get autonomous driving certification at level 3. Before getting into that let’s recap the SAE 5 certification levels for autonomous driving: no automation Level 1: hands on/shared control Level 2: hands off Level 3: eyes off Level 4: mind off Level 5: steering …

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Brooding about ChatGPT

Generative AI was the new kid in the block that all of a sudden became a rising star. OpenAi, a start up founded in 2015 (Elon Musk was among the funding parties), released their third Generative Pre-trained Transformer in June 2020. In 2021/2022 they managed to have a few million …

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Breaking the 1,000km threshold

A good way to start the new year: Zeekr, a sister company of Volvo, manufacturing electric cars for the Chinese market, is now selling its Zeekr 001 model with the optional Qilin 140 kWh battery pack providing a range exceeding 1,000 km, a sort of magic threshold. The Zeekr 001 …

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