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mente-matematica

Three streaming cultures

Processes and streams for renovating Europe’s innovation identity

Sun 11 11:00 - 12:00

Is an algorithm always the best and most direct solution? And following one algorithm, can there be another that modifies its horizon and its vision? These questions have been growing on the route opened at IF 2014, where philosophers and mathematicians came together to discuss the negotiable nature of software. A year on, the same experts acknowledge graduation in the power of the algorithm, but also the so-called new literacy, in other words a culture of critical and responsible consumption that drives the major areas of scientific and humanist thought to unite in the creation of a web that is more sharing and less automatically dependent on the power of calculation.

Venues

Scuola Normale Superiore