WIRN 2025

THE ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS

4 – 6 June 2025 – Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy

Thinking Machines: myth or reality? A nearly agnostic perspective

Prof. Francesco Palmieri

University of Salerno

Abstract

The idea of thinking machines may be very challenging, and at the same time questionable, mainly for those who don’t “natively” come from the neural networks world. We’ll briefly discuss, mainly according to a connectionistic point of view, how this concept evolved in the last years and whether available technologies can lead to realistic results and promising perspectives.

Biography

Francesco Palmieri is a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Salerno, Italy, where he directs the Advanced Networking Technology and the IoT Laboratories. He is currently responsible for the Cybersecurity and IoT courses for the Master Degree and for the Computer Networks course for the Degree in Computer Science.
 
His research interests include advanced networking and cybersecurity. He significantly contributed to the development of the Internet in Italy as a senior member of the Technical-Scientific Advisory Committee and of the CSIRT of the Italian NREN GARR. He has published a large number of papers in leading technical journals, books and conferences, as well he currently serves as the editor-in-chief and on the editorial board of several top-class international journals.
 
In his activity, he has been involved, by also assuming strategic roles, in several national and international research and network development projects.
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