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.

Some unexpected numbers (at least to me)

May be that’s not your case, but when I think about electric vehicle I think about cars. Yes, I saw (not in Italy) a few examples of electric motorbike but I looked at them mostly as a curiosity. Now, reading a MIT Technology Review article, I appreciate that is not …

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Generative AI is so easy, and that’s the problem – IV

Generative AI is rapidly integrating the capability to learn from interaction and the possibility to leverage a continuously updated LLM – Large Language Model. This is clearly a plus for its application in an enterprise/industrial context. The easiness of use and this additional capability (that will most likely characterize its …

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Printing a brain?

3D printing has moved from the printing of small prototypes to industrial manufacturing (like printing the blades for airplanes turbine) and has expanded the possibility of materials that can be printed. Bio-printing is not new, researchers, and doctors, have been printing tissues using cells, starting from skin up to cartilage …

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Rare earths are not rare at all, but …

“Rare” stands for scarce and indeed we feel a shortage of these 17 elements that have been called “rare earths”. We are feeling this shortage even more in these last decades as they have become more and more important in electronics, particularly so in radio communications and to speed up …

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How much data … can be digested by our brain?

For at least 70 years scientists, researchers and lay people have been comparing the brain to the computer (actually, I remember that when I was young, taking the very first course on computers in high school, the computer was called “cervello elettronico”, Electronic Brain in Italian). The pursue of an …

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