Imagine a world where robots gets smarter because they learn from you how to do their chores. You teach your robot how you want the house cleaned, how you like your food cooked, how you like your shirts ironed.  That sounds good, right? But now imagine that your robots become …

Quantum Key Cryptography, QKC, is already in use on physical communications infrastructures where an all optical connectivity is available, end to end. This is being used for secure links in banks data centres. The equipment needed is bulky and it relies on stable communications environment, such as the one that can …

I don’t know about you, but I remember my mom insisting that I wear an undershirt because that "is good for your health". My kids no longer wear the undershirt most of the time, because it is not "cool". Well, now they might have a reason to change their mind: …

When I first glanced at the figure I immediately recognised our brain, but I got it wrong: it is showing the connections of a rat brain. Still quite similar to ours, but just in terms of connections, since our brain has over 1,000 more neurones than a rat brain (100 …

Since the Industrial revolution the focus has been on productivity, not on Energy. Energy enters into the equation only when we are looking at cost. If the cost of energy is low, no problem. However, if we look at energy efficiency we discover that Nature is more efficient than the …

Let’s take a look, then, at how we could decrease energy usage, still maintaining the level of services that we are used to. One has to consider that in these last 50 years electronics has made amazing progress and not just in becoming more performant, also in becoming less energy …

Of course if we were to have abundant energy, increasing power consumption should not be an issue, shouldn’t it? In this map we can take a look at where we stand in terms of using energy sources that are today exploitable at an affordable cost. Notice that as we change …

So, if we are looking back at the power budget for telecommunications since the shift from electromechanical switches to electronics switches we can see a constant increase in power consumption, that has been driven in the wireline area by the increased penetration of electronics and the related need for air-conditioning …

Today I was asked to give a talk at the GreenTouch event in Milan. In this and in the following posts I will sum up the points I made. Hope they may stimulate some thoughts in this area that is one of those we are looking at at the EIT …

Reservoir Computing is a paradigm that mimics, to a certain extent, the way our brain processes and store information and learning in the process. It is likely a paradigm for the "conoscenti" only but nevertheless one that can lead to interesting applications in the future to create emerging information. In …