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Last Friday, legendary MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. The Oakland-born researcher was responsible for several pivotal advances in the computer science space, most notably the password, which he invented during his pioneering work in computer time sharing. Corbató led the...

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On September 12, 1962, in Houston, in Texas, the State where he would be killed just over a year later, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy made a historic speech, in which he announced the race to the Moon. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," JFK said.  When you...

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Quando l’innovazione e la tecnologia incontrano il design e il saper fare del Made in Italy, succede che un’azienda produttrice di materie plastiche festeggi i cent’anni inventandosi nuovi materiali per gli oggetti 3D, che mobili fatti su misura finiscano negli uffici dei grattacieli di Mosca, che da uno studio della Nasa sull’inquinamento nasca un...

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Milan is known for fashion, design, art and incredible architecture and now… surfing. Visitors to landlocked Milan can now learn to surf at one of the world’s biggest surf parks. Wakeparadise, which opened this weekend, is a brand new artificial wave facility in Idroscalo Park, a watersports park in the south-east of the city. It provides surf enth...

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We need to promote the innovation’s development and the technology transfer by involving the researchers’ associations abroad and with a specific delegation on technology transfer”, said Fabio De Furia, President of the Miami Scientific Italian Community at the opening of the Scientific Representatives’ Conference 2019: Technologies of the Sea and...

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Environmental protection, sustainable development and technological innovation are the focus of the Conference hosted at the Farnesina on 27 and 28 June, “Italian-speaking Marine Technologies and Innovation”, which has put together Italian Scientific Attachés abroad with representatives of Universities, businesses and research institutes, with the...

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Né pizza né mandolino: da qualche anno un polpo robot è la nuova immagine dell'Italia nel mondo. Il merito è di Cecilia Laschi, 51 anni, livornese, professoressa di bioingegneria industriale presso la Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa. La scienziata, infatti, considerata una pioniera nel campo della robotica, ha messo a punto una nuova generazione...

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A total 14 Italian food and beverage products received the Italian Food Awards on the opening day of the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City before an audience of top personalities from the Italian food industry, U.S. buyers, chefs, ambassadors of Italian cuisine, and members of the media. The winners were selected from 11 product categories. T...

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Today, on June 25th, we remember George Orwell’s birthday, which amazingly predicted much of today's surveillance society. But there’s also another piece of news, in the field of digital communication: the launch of a brand-new project, born in Italy and developed in the United States of America. In the Auditorium of ComoNExT – Innovation Hub, Lake...

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The Chinese-Italian engineer Mario Tchou was, by all accounts, brilliant. Born and raised in Italy and educated in the United States, he led the Olivetti company’s ambitious effort to build a completely transistorized mainframe computer in the late 1950s. During Mario’s tenure, Olivetti successfully launched the ELEA 9003 mainframe and founded one...

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