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Piero Scaruffi | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
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| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Years active | 1983–present |
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| Website | scaruffi |
Piero Scaruffi (born 1955) is an Italian-American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published. [1] He has created his own publishing entity called Omnipublishing, [2] which exclusively releases his books about music and science.
Scaruffi was born in 1955 [3] in Trivero, a comune in the Province of Biella of Italy. He graduated from the University of Turinwith a degree in Mathematics. [1]
For a number of years he worked for Olivetti on artificial intelligence, [4] [5] as well as at Stanford University. [6] He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Stanford University (conducting research on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science), lectured on "The Nature of Mind" and "History of Knowledge" (most recently at U.C. Berkeley), and published on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including Thinking About Thought (2003) and The Nature of Consciousness (2006).
His work aims to bridge artificial intelligence, mathematics, science and art. As a software consultant, he worked on Internet applications, Artificial Intelligence and Object-Oriented design in Silicon Valley. He is an Italian-American, a naturalized U.S. citizen. He also writes about music. He published books about the history of rock music, jazz, avant garde music and modern popular music. One of them, A History of Rock and Dance Music, vol 1 and 2, spans 50 years of the genre; [7] Scaruffi estimated that it had sold 1,500 copies by 2006. [1] His writings on music are hosted online on his own 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 by Dan Morrell on October 15, 2006. [1] Morrell noted the "staggering" volume of Scaruffi's work, given that the site is "a one-man operation". [1] From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Governing Board of Directors of the journal Leonardo . [8] The most widely known entry on Scaruffi's website is his career-spanning essay on the Beatles, effectively a polemic against the critical and popular consensus regarding the band's influence on modern music.
Scaruffi chaired, among others, the Big Bang conference of June 2008 at UC-Berkeley. [9] He has compiled an extensive "Annotated Bibliography of Mind-Related" Topics", as well. He has been running the Leonardo Art Science Evenings (LASERS) at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, a series that he established in 2008 and as of 2022 spread to 50 universities worldwide. [10] [11] He also runs the interdisciplinary quarterly events SMMMASH at Stanford University. Scaruffi is involved in organising and moderating events for Stanford Continuing Studies. [12]
Books on music
Books on cognitive science and artificial intelligence
Other books
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