100 million from Microsoft to reduce skills mismatch
Ambizione Italia' is an ecosystem project aimed at getting 2 million students involved in programmes and courses. As part of the proposal, the Phyd platform was created for professional guidance.
Educating the machines: this is what a machine learning specialist does
Today one of the four highest paid positions in the software industry, this role requires a combination of statistics and IT. But academic courses on becoming a machine learning specialist are hard to come by. Being resourceful and self-taught seems to be the solution
Geoff Mulgan: l’intelligenza collettiva ci farà riflettere
Il Ceo di Nesta nel suo nuovo saggio, affronta il nodo della collaborazione tra capacità umane e potenzialità delle macchine come leva per vincere le grandi sfide economiche, ambientali e sociali
Geoff Mulgan: collective intelligence will change our world
In his new book, the CEO of Nesta discusses the collaborative crossroads between human skills and the power of machines. He believes collective intelligence can help us conquer economic, environmental and social challenges.
To young people, I say: Be entrepreneurs
Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of microcredit, reminds young people that human beings are creative, encouraging them not to work for somebody else
Can innovation balance the scales between risk and a collaborative system?
Technological advancement is a multifaceted matter, explains physicist Massimo Caccia. That is why it is important to compare the stakeholders and subjects involved in the main processes involved, especially now that the advance of technology is about to change lives
The work of the future? The cartographer (for self-driving cars)
Not only sensors, TV cameras and radar, the latest step for self-driving cars is to have the right directions so as to avoid taking the wrong turn and increasing passenger safety thanks to the work of the cartographers
Humanoid robots will steal only the more dangerous jobs
In Japan androids have already become a part of family life while in the USA and Europe they help workers. "But they are not a threat", assures Professor Bruno Siciliano, one of the top Italian experts in robotics
Banks look set to become increasingly digital
Banks are investing more than never before to radically innovate their business model - a necessary strategy to avoid being put on the scrapheap by fintech, and in particular by the threat posed by Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.
The future according to Nicholas Negroponte: “We’ll be able to learn French by swallowing a pill”
We have spoken to the man who invented the touchscreen and predicted the most important technological revolutions of recent years: "Things that are difficult to imagine do happen." So what's next? Developments in biomechatronics and knowledge acquired without the use of the eyes