Luca Maria Gambardella (born 4 January 1962) is an Italian

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and

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. He is the former director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in

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, in the

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canton of Switzerland. He is currently the prorector of

Università della Svizzera italiana The (USI, ''University of Italian-speaking Switzerland''), sometimes referred to as the University of Lugano in English-speaking contexts, is a public Swiss university established in 1995, with campuses in Lugano, Mendrisio and Bellinzona (Canto ...

, where he directs the

Master of Science A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medici ...

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degree course. Several of his papers have been extensively cited, with his collaborators including

Marco Dorigo Marco Dorigo (born 26 August 1961, in Milan, Italy) is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and a co-director of ''IRIDIA'', the artificial intelligence lab of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in ...

, with whom he has published papers on the application of

ant colony optimization In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants represent multi ...

theory to the

traveling salesman problem In the theory of computational complexity, the travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exac ...

, and

Jürgen Schmidhuber Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963) is a German computer scientist noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks. He is a scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artifici ...

with whom he has published research on

deep neural networks Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

.. Beside working in research, Gambardella explores the potentials of AI applied for the generation of art. Some of his artistic installations received significant media coverage. As a

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, the genres he approached broad from

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of his first book "Sei vite" ("Six lives"), to

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of his second book "Il suono dell'alba" ("The sound of sunrise").

References

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