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Abstract:
(Invited Talks)
In 1989 the first italian workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN 89)
ratified the birth of an organized research activity dealing with
Artificial Neural Networks in Italy. As a matter of fact the neural
networks tale in Italy begun in early '60s with Prof. Eduardo
Caianiello, a pioneer of the world research in this field. But only
at the end of the 80's the italian scientific community was able to
collect different groups and interests in a coordinated activity.
MURST and CNR decided to fund several projects dealing with ANNs
and new scientific groups were involved in the research. In early
90's 50 million dollars were invested by MURST in a large
industrial project dealing with all possible aspects of neural
networks, from the biological implementation to the silicon
fabrication. Also European Community decided to fund research
projects in ANNs and several italian universities and industries
participated to this activities. In USA INNS was the first society
trying to organize the research in ANNs at world level. The first
world conference was organized in San Diego, CA, at the end of the
80's, A great enthusiasm involved both industries and academic
communities and in the following years this conference became more
and more important, sponsored also by IEEE, Japanese Neural Network
Society and European Neural Network Society. Ten years went by: in
2000 this conference will leave USA to come to Italy: what
happened? This presentation will try to analyse the reasons of the
success of the italian ANNs in the scientific community and the
consequences for the industrial world.
Eros Pasero, born in Alessandria, Italy, on 1955, received his
M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico of
Torino in 1980. From 1980 to 1987 he was with the Politecnico of
Torino, involved in multiprocessor system design. He was engaged in
the development of TOMP, a multimicroprocessor system based on
Z8000 microprocessors. In 1982 he, together with his group,
received the CILEA-SPERRY international award for computer science.
From 1987 to 1990 he was Associate Professor of electronics with
the II University of Roma. In this period he was engaged with the
design of analog circuits for Artificial Neural Networks. Together
Texas Instruments in 1990 he built the first italian neural
integrated circuit based on floating gate transistors. In these
years he was involved in some italian and european projects
(MADESS, Biotecnologie, Esprit Nervess, Progetto Speciale CNR Reti
Neurali Artificiali) dealing with microelectronics and neural
networks. Since 1991 he is again with the Politecnico di Torino
where he is managing NeuroLab, a laboratory for the study and
development of neural networks. Together SGS-Thomson he developed
NESP, an analog neural processor based on EEPROM technology. In
1993 he was with the International Computer Science Institute at
the University of California, Berkeley, as visiting professor. He
is now involved in a large european project (ANNIE) for the
development of neural techniques to emulate human movements in CAD
environments. Prof. Pasero has more than 100 original papers and
some patent applications in electronic circuits. He was member of
several scientific committee of international conferences (ISCIS,
WIRN, FPGA, DSP, ESP, ECS, IJCNN) and editorial board of the
Journal of Electrical Engineering. He was one of the founders of
SIREN, the italian society for neural networks.
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