1. Piero Scaruffi was born on 1955 and is an Italian-American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published.
11 Facts About Piero Scaruffi
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Piero Scaruffi has created his own publishing entity called Omnipublishing, which exclusively releases his books about music and science.
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Piero Scaruffi graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in Mathematics.
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Piero Scaruffi has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Stanford University, lectured on "The Nature of Mind" and "History of Knowledge", and published on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including Thinking About Thought and The Nature of Consciousness.
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Piero Scaruffi's work aims to bridge artificial intelligence, mathematics, science and art.
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Piero Scaruffi published books about the history of rock music, jazz, avant garde music and modern popular music.
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Morrell noted the "staggering" volume of Piero Scaruffi's work, given that the site is "a one-man operation".
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The most widely known entry on Piero Scaruffi's website is his career-spanning essay on the Beatles, effectively a polemic against the critical and popular consensus regarding the band's influence on modern music.
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Piero Scaruffi chaired, among others, the Big Bang conference of June 2008 at UC Berkeley.
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Piero Scaruffi has been running the Leonardo Art Science Evenings at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, a series that he established in 2008 and as of 2022 spread to 50 universities worldwide.
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Piero Scaruffi is involved in organising and moderating events for Stanford Continuing Studies.