“Sentirsi al sicuro” o cercare un “posto sicuro” è certamente una delle principali sensazioni che abbiamo stampato nel nostro DNA. E’ li’ da qualche parte nella nostra testa o chi sa’ dove. I primi ominidi sapevano bene quanto questa sensazione era importante, quando cercavano la caverna ideale dove rifugiarsi e trasformala in casa per dormire,... Continue Reading →

I enjoyed to be in Budapest last week for a number of reasons. First of all, it was a pleasure and an honor for me to be asked to provide an invited speech at the AI25 @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics-VIK conference organized by the MIT-BME department for its 25 years of work... Continue Reading →

IBM activities to push forward the Future of the IT Technology I collected in a deck a number of thoughts about the Future of the IT Technology by observing and evaluating some of the breakthroughs that IBM Research generated mainly during last year or so. The deck already on SlideShare and can be downloaded from... Continue Reading →

Qualche settimana fa' un'insegnante del comprensivo scolastico che i miei due figli frequentano mi chiede: "Ma perché non ci fai un seminario sul CODING? Se ne parla in giro da tanto. Noi stiamo cominciando a fare delle cose, ma cosa c'è di nuovo rispetto ai metodi forse un po’ più tradizionali per imparare a scrivere... Continue Reading →

The infusion of digital technologies into the basic ground of our society is the biggest transformation phenomena characterizing our post-industrial society during last 20 years or so. There is a clear tendency that is asking us to put machines, and the overall mechanization, at the heart of every process transformation in every industry sector. The... Continue Reading →

Qualche mese fa in questo post (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/practical-quantum-computing-pietro-leo) ho cercato di sintetizzare quello che sta emergendo attorno al tema del Practical Quantum Computing, anche alla luce dei vari annunci che sono stati promossi da IBM e Google su come questa tecnologia sta avanzando e più che altro fare una personale mente locale sulla rapidità con cui... Continue Reading →

What is a bug? I mean not the nice animal, rather, a "computer bug". It is basically an error somewhere into the computer that causes incorrect or unexpected results. It is a popular term among those that are dealing with computer in general as well as among those that experiment just the error without know... Continue Reading →

One of the most interesting intellectual exercises in Information technology domain is to predict which are next technology  trends and topics giving that in our industry things, probably, change more frequently than of the industries (of course, someone could also argue that  sometime topics are re-named or are Déjà vu, but this is another story ... Continue Reading →

"You have 5' and 20 auto advancing slides", this was the request I received during the summer to prepare a session for the IBM Academy of Technology Innovation University, an internal event organized in Yorktown (New York) last September and chaired by my great colleague Isabell Sippli. "Ignite is a style of presentation where participants... Continue Reading →