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University of Palermo
Accademia Nazionale Di Scienze Lettere E Arti Di Palermo
  • University of Palermo
    Department of Mathematics and Informatics
    Retired faculty
  • Accademia Nazionale Di Scienze Lettere E Arti Di Palermo
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Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics
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    1. Meandering. around. the. problem. The development of information sciences, in their widest sense, has pointed out the crucial importance of the complementary role that innovative ideas and the power mathematical and technical tools play ...
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    The present paper describes and discusses certain aspects of the evolution of cybernetics, with a focus on the Italian context. It considers the ways in which cybernetic questions relate to present issues of crucial importance. The aim will be to interpret cybernetics as an unfinished and interdisciplinary scientific paradigm, reflecting on the contribution represented by this specificity. Reference will be made to the figure of the Italian cyberneticist Eduardo Caianiello as a paradigmatic case…Read more
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    L’IA tra Katzuo Ishiguro e Federico Faggin
    Scienza E Filosofia 27 88-108. 2022.
    The themes proposed by the Journal for a critical discussion are crucial for understanding the impact that AI can have in Society (and also in everyday life), as is the case with all “science-based” cutting-edge technologies, i.e. those founded on and closely intertwined with basic frontier research. The questions posed can, in my view, be more satisfactorily addressed if seen from a long-term perspective with a historical reference to the origins and development of AI, its progress over the las…Read more
  • On physical laws and computability
    with Salvatore Guccione and Guglielmo Tamburrini
    Agora 17 (1): 159-166. 1998.
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    Fuzziness in Italy – Traces of a scattered history
    with Gianpiero Cattaneo, Giulianella Coletti, Antonio Di Nola, Mario Fedrizzi, Giangiacomo Gerla, Gabriella Pasi, Marco Elio Tabacchi, and Aldo Ventre
    Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing 2017 (1). 2017.
    The history of Fuzziness in Italy is varied and scattered among a num- ber of research groups. As a matter of fact, “fuzziness” spread in Italy through a sort of spontaneous diffusion, and, also subsequently, no one felt the need to cre- ate some “national” common structure like an Association or similar things. Since a cohesive retelling would be next to impossible, a few members of the Italian fuzzy community have been asked to recount their experience and express their hopes for the future.
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    Reflections on Technology and Human Sciences: rediscovering a common thread through the analysis of a few epistemological features of fuzziness
    with Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro, Valerio Perticone, and Marco Elio Tabacchi
    Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing 2013 (1). 2013.
    A number of reasons, both historical and philosophical, has caused Technology and Human Sciences to be perceived as disjoint domains. Contrary to this claim, we propose as a thesis that there exists a strong methodological affinity between these apparently disconnected fields of knowledge. Our view is further corroborated by the emergence, in the setting of Information Sciences of new scientific concepts and tools such as fuzziness. Comparing the ways in which both technology and literature offe…Read more