Giuseppe F. Italiano

Deputy Rector and Professor of Computer Science at @UniLUISS | President of EATCS | Personal opinions

[MilanoFinanza @MilanoFinanza]

.@GFItaliano (Prorettore per l'Artificial Intelligence e le Digital Skills @UniLUISS): «Le università devono lavorare nel lungo termine, ma il lavoro sta cambiando. Non è solo l’automatizzazione dei task, sta cambiando il modo di gestire i processi». #StatiGeneraliAI #AI

[MilanoFinanza @MilanoFinanza]

.@GFItaliano (Prorettore per l'Artificial Intelligence e le Digital Skills @UniLUISS): «È importante capire quali sono le skill umane fondamentali in un mondo che usa sempre più la tecnologia. La comunicazione e il decision making sono skill chiave». #StatiGeneraliAI #AI

[MilanoFinanza @MilanoFinanza]

.@GFItaliano (Prorettore per l'Artificial Intelligence e le Digital Skills @UniLUISS): «Dobbiamo trasmettere il messaggio che l’AI non si può usare col pilota automatico. Noi dobbiamo integrare l’AI come fosse un copilota per i nostri studenti». #StatiGeneraliAI #AI

[Luiss Guido Carli @UniLUISS]

"AI4Society coniuga eccellenza accademica a rilevanza pratica, con un impatto nell'industria". L'intervista al Prof. @GFItaliano, Prorettore per l'AI e le Digital Skills e Direttore del Centro di Ricerca AI4Society, a margine dell’evento di presentazione del CdR.

[Michelangelo Suigo @supermik14]

#Telecomunicazioni e politica industriale al centro del dibattito @FondAstrid in @UniLUISS sul libro di @FrancoBassanini e Perrucci con il Rettore @PBoccardelli, Corti Garrone Labriola @benedettolevi @MarcoPennarola Gola Protto Missori Sarmi Aria Busa.
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https://t.co/MXg3YgUbky

[Kasper Green Larsen @kasperglarsen]

Please nominate the most outstanding PhD dissertations in Theoretical Computer Science for the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. The dissertation must have been successfully defended in 2024. Looking much forward to reading your nominations!
https://t.co/1icI6uT7Mx

[Fondazione S.O.S. Telefono Azzurro ETS @telefonoazzurro]

🤖 L’#AI può proteggere o mettere a rischio i giovani? Esperti ed educatori stanno affrontato il tema tra opportunità e pericoli: trasparenza, privacy, disinformazione e impatto sull’educazione. Un futuro digitale più consapevole è possibile! @silviacastagna @GFItaliano

[Giuseppe F. Italiano @GFItaliano]

Time to nominate your top PhD Thesis in Theoretical Computer Science for the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award!

More information 👉https://t.co/jAr2lAEU2q

#eatcs #eatcsawards

[Giuseppe F. Italiano @GFItaliano]

The EATCS Awards season is starting again!
Deadline for nomination for EATCS Fellows is March 7, 2025.

👉https://t.co/ToIwecGEm9

#eatcs #eatcsawards

[Luiss Data Lab @LuissDataLab]

Con @riotta oggi parliamo di

1. La Terza Guerra Mondiale è già iniziata con @lorenzo_tondo @guardian
2. L'immortalità dell'uomo grazie all'AI con @paolobenanti e @GFItaliano
3. @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump con
@paolapeduzzi

https://t.co/i8YbmW53BR

[Luiss Guido Carli @UniLUISS]

Ispirare una nuova generazione di leader nell'era dell'IA.
Gli highlights della Cerimonia di Inaugurazione dell'Anno Accademico #Luiss 2024-2025 con @PBoccardelli, Luigi Gubitosi, James Manyika @Google, Padre Paolo Benanti, @GFItaliano, @finocchi_irene e Maria Chiara Lischi.

[Steve Jurvetson @FutureJurvetson]

The Moore's Law Update
NOTE: this is a semi-log graph, so a straight line is an exponential; each y-axis tick is 100x. This graph covers a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in.

Humanity’s capacity to compute has compounded for as long as we can measure it, exogenous to the economy, and starting long before Intel co-founder Gordon Moore noticed a refraction of the longer-term trend in the belly of the fledgling semiconductor industry in 1965.

I have color coded it to show the transition among the integrated circuit architectures. You can see how the mantle of Moore's Law has transitioned most recently from the GPU (green dots) to the ASIC (yellow and orange dots), and the NVIDIA Hopper architecture itself is a transitionary species — from GPU to ASIC, with 8-bit performance optimized for AI models, the majority of new compute cycles.

There are thousands of invisible dots below the line, the frontier of humanity's capacity to compute (e.g., everything from Intel in the past 15 years). The computational frontier has shifted across many technology substrates over the past 128 years. Intel ceded leadership to NVIDIA 15 years ago, and further handoffs are inevitable.

Why the transition within the integrated circuit era? Intel lost to NVIDIA for neural networks because the fine-grained parallel compute architecture of a GPU maps better to the needs of deep learning. There is a poetic beauty to the computational similarity of a processor optimized for graphics processing and the computational needs of a sensory cortex, as commonly seen in the neural networks of 2014. A custom ASIC chip optimized for neural networks extends that trend to its inevitable future in the digital domain. Further advances are possible with analog in-memory compute, an even closer biomimicry of the human cortex. The best business planning assumption is that Moore’s Law, as depicted here, will continue for the next 20 years as it has for the past 128. (Note: the top right dot for Mythic is a prediction for 2026 showing the effect of a simple process shrink from an ancient 40nm process node)

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For those unfamiliar with this chart, here is a more detailed description:

Moore's Law is both a prediction and an abstraction. It is commonly reported as a doubling of transistor density every 18 months. But this is not something the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, has ever said. It is a nice blending of his two predictions; in 1965, he predicted an annual doubling of transistor counts in the most cost effective chip and revised it in 1975 to every 24 months. With a little hand waving, most reports attribute 18 months to Moore’s Law, but there is quite a bit of variability. The popular perception of Moore’s Law is that computer chips are compounding in their complexity at near constant per unit cost. This is one of the many abstractions of Moore’s Law, and it relates to the compounding of transistor density in two dimensions. Others relate to speed (the signals have less distance to travel) and computational power (speed x density).

Unless you work for a chip company and focus on fab-yield optimization, you do not care about transistor counts. Integrated circuit customers do not buy transistors. Consumers of technology purchase computational speed and data storage density. When recast in these terms, Moore’s Law is no longer a transistor-centric metric, and this abstraction allows for longer-term analysis.

What Moore observed in the belly of the early IC industry was a derivative metric, a refracted signal, from a longer-term trend, a trend that begs various philosophical questions and predicts mind-bending AI futures.

In the modern era of accelerating change in the tech industry, it is hard to find even five-year trends with any predictive value, let alone trends that span the centuries.

I would go further and assert that this is the most important graph ever conceived. A large and growing set of industries depends on continued exponential cost declines in computational power and storage density. Moore’s Law drives electronics, communications and computers and has become a primary driver in drug discovery, biotech and bioinformatics, medical imaging and diagnostics. As Moore’s Law crosses critical thresholds, a formerly lab science of trial and error experimentation becomes a simulation science, and the pace of progress accelerates dramatically, creating opportunities for new entrants in new industries. Consider the autonomous software stack for Tesla and SpaceX and the impact that is having on the automotive and aerospace sectors.

Every industry on our planet is going to become an information business. Consider agriculture. If you ask a farmer in 20 years’ time about how they compete, it will depend on how they use information — from satellite imagery driving robotic field optimization to the code in their seeds. It will have nothing to do with workmanship or labor. That will eventually percolate through every industry as IT innervates the economy.

Non-linear shifts in the marketplace are also essential for entrepreneurship and meaningful change. Technology’s exponential pace of progress has been the primary juggernaut of perpetual market disruption, spawning wave after wave of opportunities for new companies. Without disruption, entrepreneurs would not exist.

Moore’s Law is not just exogenous to the economy; it is why we have economic growth and an accelerating pace of progress. At Future Ventures, we see that in the growing diversity and global impact of the entrepreneurial ideas that we see each year — from automobiles and aerospace to energy and chemicals.

We live in interesting times, at the cusp of the frontiers of the unknown and breathtaking advances. But, it should always feel that way, engendering a perpetual sense of future shock.

[Paolo Boccardelli @PBoccardelli]

AI Alliance, evento del Centro di Ricerca in Strategic Change “Franco Fontana” @UniLUISS e @IBMItalia.

Un focus sull'intelligenza artificiale e il dialogo tra istituzioni e società civile per un uso sicuro e responsabile della tecnologia.

Iscrizioni: https://t.co/Px3xZEFYX9

[Ian P. McCarthy @Toffeemen68]

This study o found that AI-assisted scientists:

1. discovered 44% more materials

2. had a 39% increase in patent filings

3. had a 17% rise in product innovation

4. AI automates 57% of “idea-generation” tasks, allowing scientists to focus on selecting ideas

https://t.co/dJNIoJZrBN

[Paolo Boccardelli @PBoccardelli]

Giovedì 5/12 un nuovo appuntamento organizzato dal Centro di Ricerca in Strategic Change “Franco Fontana” di @UniLUISS e @IBMItalia per parlare di innovazione digitale e dei suoi impatti sulla società.

Per partecipare è necessario registrarsi qui: https://t.co/Px3xZEFYX9

[Giuseppe F. Italiano @GFItaliano]

Wondering who were the anonymous reviewers!

[Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ @gcabanac]

In @ElsevierConnect: “As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although … completely irrelevant to the present work” https://t.co/qTkeMVF1OR CC @maoviedogarcia @GillesHub

[Seth Stephens-Davidowitz @SethS_D]

This is the book I wrote on how you can't trust polls. Probably more relevant now than ever. https://t.co/C5tVT2Sefd

[Paolo Boccardelli @PBoccardelli]

🗓 Save the date: 13 dicembre, Cerimonia d’inaugurazione dell’a.a. 2024/2025 @UniLUISS con un dialogo tra James Manyika, President, Research, Technology & Society, Google, e Padre @paolobenanti, Presidente della Commissione Al per l'informazione, @Palazzo_Chigi.

[Stefan Schmid @schmiste_ch]

Autumn issue of EATCS bulletin! https://t.co/yf3pPmTxrI
By Robin Vacus, Stefan Neumann, Clement Canonne, Till Tantau, Luca Aceto, etc.! Interview with Bruce Maggs. And a strategy for high school students to solve algorithmic problems. Enjoy! @podc_disc @ccanonne_ @StefanResearch

[Luiss Guido Carli @UniLUISS]

Brad Smith,President and Vice Chair of @Microsoft, engaged with our students and academic community in an insightful discussion on the challenges and opportunities surrounding #AI development, emphasising the need for an ethical and sustainable governance.