La quarta rivoluzione industriale e l'economia italiana

Quali sono i rischi e i possibili vantaggi connessi all’affermarsi dell’Industria 4.0, ovvero del sistema produttivo basato su un utilizzo massiccio delle nuove tecnologie? Come si sta comportando l’economia italiana in tale contesto? Come evitare di esserne travolti cogliendone gli aspetti positivi? Se non gestiti attraverso le necessarie politiche educative, industriali e di redistribuzione, i cambiamenti tecnologici radicali possono avere ripercussioni asimmetriche dal punto di vista socia...

Abandoning the Apennines? The anthropo-systemic value of the Italian inner areas within the 2016-17 seismic crater

This paper aims at contributing to the academic and political debate about the future of inner areas, which swings between the request for public policies designed to reverse their socioeconomic marginalisation on the one hand, and the request for their abandonment on the other hand. After having discussed the rationale underpinning these opposite views, we propose to contextualise the notion of territorial capital to inner areas. This theoretical approach, labelled as Anthropo-systemic appro...

Neutrino: the mutant particle

On October 2015 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was assligned to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. This is the academic acknowledgement of a result which has deeply modified our understanding of fundamental physics. In about twenty years of exciting discoveries neutrino physics has changed from a pioneering discovery activity into a mature precision scienc...

Software Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems [Hardcover]