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Piero Scaruffi (born in Trivero, Italy, in 1955, but based in California since 1983) is an Italian-American cultural historian. He has also written scientific and philosophical essays about cognitive science and published several books of both non-fiction and original poetry, both in Italy and the USA.
Biography
Historian and critic
Scaruffi has lectured on the history of knowledge subject, but is more famous as a historian of modern music.
He has published books on the history of rock music, avant garde music, jazz, and modern popular music. His most popular book is A History of Rock Music (2003), a thick scholarly work that spans 50 years of the genre. Since 2003 all his books are self-published. His writings on music are hosted online on his website, scaruffi.com, and include a history of jazz and a history of modern classical music. The website, especially its music section, was the subject of an article in the New York Times on October 15, 2006.
Scientific career
Piero Scaruffi was the director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti (Cupertino, California) from 1987 till 1991. During that time he designed and managed projects for knowledge-based systems, neural networks and natural-language understanding in collaboration with Stanford Univ, Yale Univ, Caltech, SRI.
He continued his research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science in the academic world (with stints as visiting scholar at the MIT and at Stanford University). Afterwards, he conducted independent research on cognitive science, that resulted in his books Thinking About Thought (2003) and The Nature of Consciousness (2006) and lectures at several academic institutions.
His basic tenet is that consciousness is due to a general property of matter. This line of research led him to revisit physics. His most important contribution is a theory of how quantum mechanics could be an emergent phenomenon due to the "ripples" caused by the observer traveling through spacetime.
Believing that one cannot understand the human mind without first understanding what the human mind does, and that, fundamentally, the human mind creates civilizations, he also embarked in a study of the history of knowledge.
He has chaired conferences (such as the Big Bang conference of June 2008 at Berkeley Univ as well as art/science events in San Francisco aimed at bridging the gap between the arts and the sciences.
Books
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1998). Dialogo Degli Amanti/ Dialogue of the Lovers. Lacaita, Italy. Poetry
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1996). Il Terzo Secolo/ The Third Century. Feltrinelli, Italy. Essays on the USA
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1991). La Fabbrica del Pensiero/ The Factory of Thought. La Stampa, Italy. Non-fiction
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1991). L'Ultimo/ The Last One. Il Salice, Italy. Poetry
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1991). A Guide to Avantgarde Music. Arcana, Italy.
- Scaruffi, Piero. (1991). La Mente Artificiale/ The Artificial Mind. Angeli, Italy.
References
- Piero Scaruffi's Resume
- Scaruffi's music reviews, Musica
- Morrell, Dan (2006-10-15). "The Greatest Web Site of All Time". The New York Times: Arts. The New York Times Company.
- List of main technical papers
- Scaruffi, Piero (2006-12-01). The Nature of Consciousness. Omniware. p. 446. ISBN 9780976553113.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Leonardo/ISAST: Leonardo Day at Berkeley Big Bang 2008
- Art/Science Cultural Events in San Francisco
External links
- Piero Scaruffi's knowledge base
- The Leonardo Network
- Piero Scaruffi's research on cognitive science
- New York Times article on Piero Scaruffi
- Stanford University Piero Scaruffi page
- After TV's interview with Piero Scaruffi