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SUMMARY:From Computers to Consciousness
DTSTART:20170606T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Federico Faggin\nIMT Distinguished Lecture\n\nAbstract: Federi
 co Faggin will describe his life experience and the major lessons learned 
 in his long career as researcher\, inventor\, engineer\, and entrepreneur 
 in Silicon Valley where he has been living since 1968. Faggin will also il
 lustrate his current efforts to understand the nature of consciousness\, t
 o which he is bringing a fresh look based on a 30-year personal journey th
 at started with his work on artificial neural networks in the second half 
 of the 1980s and continued with a deep personal exploration of the subject
 \, toward a model of reality that unifies mind and matter.\n\nBio: Born an
 d educated in Vicenza\, Italy in 1941\, Federico Faggin at the age of 19 c
 o-designed and built a small electronic computer at Olivetti\, Italy (1961
 ). After graduating summa cum laude in physics at the University of Padua 
 in 1965\, he went on to develop the Silicon Gate Technology\, the world’
 s first commercial self-aligned-gate MOS technology at Fairchild Semicondu
 ctor\, Palo Alto\, California in 1968. He also designed the world’s firs
 t microprocessors at Intel – the 4004\, 8008\, 4040\, and 8080 – in th
 e period 1970-1974. In 1974 he started and led the first company entirely 
 dedicated to microprocessors\, Zilog\, Inc.\, conceiving and directing the
  development of the Z80-CPU\, a microprocessor that is still in high-volum
 e production today. In 1986 he started and led Synaptics\, Inc.\, the comp
 any that pioneered the touchpads and touchscreens that have changed the wa
 y we interact with our mobile devices. Since 2011\, he has been president 
 of Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation\, a non-profit organization dedica
 ted to the scientific study of consciousness. Faggin is the recipient of m
 any international awards\, including the Marconi Prize in 1988\, the Kyoto
  Prize in 1997\, the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation from
  President Barack Obama\, and he was inducted in the National Inventor’s
  Hall of Fame in Washington\, D.C. in 1996.
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