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Artificial Empathy: a research diary.

Today’s sciences of the artificial extend all the way to the domain of emotions. The recent re-inclusion of the emotional dimension within cognition, in the scientific trend that considers knowing as a form of doing – constructing, creating, fabricating – transforms our understanding of cognitive processes. The science of cognition – which through the development ... Artificial Empathy: a research diary.

Robotics. A new science

Fiorella Operto offers some reflections on the conference “Robotics. A new science” that took place in Rome in February at the Accademia dei Lincei. A growing international debate proposes the re-thinking in ethical terms of a research area, robotics, that has been profoundly influenced by recent scientific and technological developments in the informatics, telecommunication, software ... Robotics. A new science

Fiorella Operto

A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

(In Italiano) Roberto Panzarani teaches "Innovation Processes in Organisations" at the Psychology Faculty of La Sapienza University in Rome and has worked in the training sector in Italy for many years. He was head of training at Alitalia, where he founded the Alitalia Business School. Other positions he has covered include Chairman of the AIF ... A conversation with Roberto Panzarani

Robotics: a new science

The International Symposium “Robotics: a new science” takes place on Wednesday 20th of February 2008 at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Via Della Lungara 10 in Rome. The conference is not conceived as a technical workshop, but as a seminar whose aim is to discuss the current robotics development in the frame of the general ... Robotics: a new science

Fiorella Operto
Jonathan Hankins
Redazione FGB

Giannino Bassetti. L’imprenditore Raccontato

“L’imprenditore raccontato” is devoted to Giannino Bassetti, the man and his achievements: his personality, intelligence and values as a man and an entrepreneur. The volume, which is published by Rubbettino (2004), is edited by Roberta Garruccio and Germano Maifreda (both researchers in economic history at the Milan University Department of Historical Sciences and Documentation). Extract ... Giannino Bassetti. L’imprenditore Raccontato

What is FGB

Extract from the report on development activities The Foundation’s web site aims to create an environment on the web where debates can take place between those interested in problematic discussions regarding the theme of Innovation and its impact throughout history. We hope that it will be a place which welcomes an atmosphere of sensitivity and ... What is FGB

Jeff Ubois

Jeff Ubois is president of the Berkeley Hillside Club, which provides support for public affairs discussions, arts, and culture in Berkeley, California. In addition to his work for the Bassetti Foundation, he writes about issues in public memory and television archiving at Television Archiving, and directs archival activities for New York-based Intelligent Television, a production ... Jeff Ubois

How to map complex issues?

In this interview, taken at the Cerisy colloquium organised by Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on “L’anthropologie historique de la raison scientifique“, (July 12th- 19th 2006), Cristina Grasseni gathered Bruno Latour’s view s on responsible innovation and its relevance to the research agenda of historians, anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists of science. Cristina Grasseni I just ... How to map complex issues?

Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas

More directly and obviously than many forms of innovation, software embodies the values of those who create it. This is particularly true of software used to monitor and direct human activity: in the extreme, it can be a tool that saves lives, or one that enables political repression. Software development therefore provides many examples of ... Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas

Reinventing learning and research?

(In italiano) Within the framework of the co-operation between Profs. Elias Carayannis and Piero Formica (respectively from the School of Business at George Washington University, and the International Entrepreneurship Academy at Jönköping University) the following manifesto ensued, published as Guest Editorial in Industry and Higher Education (April 2007). We hereby re-launch it to submit it ... Reinventing learning and research?

Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?

Cristina Grasseni Professor Galison, you have seen that, as a Foundation devoted to promote responsible innovation, we have set out to try and answer a few questions, which we have posted last year in a public call for comments. What do think about public participation in particular? And how does this relate to your most ... Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?

An extract from the Oxford English Dictionary about the definition of the term ‘policy’

III. 8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 5) policy decision, document, -maker, -making, statement; policy-making adj.; policy science (see quot. 1951); hence policy scientist. 1960 I. JEFFERIES Dignity & Purity iv. 66 Their purpose is the application of scientific method to policy decisions. 1964 GOULD & KOLB Dict. Soc. Sci. 510/1 Current interest centres on ... An extract from the Oxford English Dictionary about the definition of the term ‘policy’