Fourty years after fleeing to the United States
from Nazi Germany, Arno Allan Penzias was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in
Physics for detecting the faint afterglow of the universe's fiery origin,
thus grounding the Big Bang theory on the bedrock of scientific observation.
His discovery set the stage for radically new developments in astrophysics
and cosmology.
During his career at Bell Laboratories, Penzias transformed himself from
pure researcher into manager and prophet of innovation in the field of information
and communications technology. But he has gone even further, tracing the
outline of a society in which our way of living and working will undergo
a radical change, so much so that “what looms likely just one human
generation from today amounts to little less than a fantasy world”.
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| Public conference |
Wednesday, 28 October, 17.00-19.00
Centro Congressi Cariplo
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| Chairperson |
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Fabrizio Onida
Vice President, Cariplo |
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| Introduction |
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Adriano De Maio
Rector, Politecnico of Milan |
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| Ten predictions for future technologies |
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Arno A. Penzias
Former Vice President and Chief Scientist,
Bell Laboratories |
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| Discussants |
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Maurizio Decina
Politecnico of Milan
Giovanni De Guzzis
Vice President, Ericsson Telecomunicazioni
Giuseppe Morchio
President and Managing Director, Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi
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