Marvin Minsky and David Orban Bergamoscienza is a wonderful event that for two weeks engulfs the cultural life of Bergamo, and is getting better and better organized each year. The opening conference this year was by Marvin Minsky, one of the original founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence. I started my professional life twenty [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Daniel Dennett in Venice ruffles some priestly feathers
September 25th, 2006
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Daniel Dennett and David Orban I had the fortune of meeting Daniel Dennett in Venice at the Future of Science conference on last Saturday. The theme of the conference this year was Evolution, and after the first day being dedicated to the evolution of the Universe, and the second to that of Life, the last [...]
Meeting a friend after twenty years
September 24th, 2006
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Slightly drunk I went to the University of Padua with Tommaso Dorigo, where we addended physics, and he found me about a year or two ago via my blog. We met for a dinner, and a long chat finding quickly out, that you can be on the same wavelength even after a very long time [...]
Instant prank
September 17th, 2006
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Instant prank Originally uploaded by david.orban. Somebody poured a bottle of bath foam in this public fountain. Funny.
