A day to celebrate Luigia Carlucci Aiello, a pioneer of artificial intelligence research in Italy and of AI education at Sapienza University.
Luigia Carlucci Aiello has been part of many key institutions in both Italian and international research throughout her career: from the CNR in Pisa, where she worked after graduating in mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore, to Stanford, and finally to Sapienza University of Rome, where she taught from 1982 until her retirement in 2015. She was also the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA), which she founded in 1988.
Her experience as a researcher, professor, and leader of numerous international projects—and above all as a pioneer in artificial intelligence, a field that has evolved from a frontier discipline in the 1970s to a cornerstone of contemporary science and technology—represents an important example for present and future generations. For this reason, the celebration of her career and the awarding of the academic honor of Sapienza Ambassador in front of the Italian AI scientific community is accompanied by a broader reflection on women’s careers in STEM, engaging the next generation of scientists who may follow in her footsteps.
The event, organized by Sapienza University of Rome and the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” (DIAG), in collaboration with the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA), the National Laboratory CINI for Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AIIS), and the Future Artificial Intelligence Research Foundation (FAIR), will take place in Rome, at the Sapienza Aula Magna, on Monday, September 30, 2024, from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
Program
9:30 AM – AWARDING OF THE ACADEMIC HONOR OF SAPIENZA AMBASSADOR TO PROF. LUIGIA CARLUCCI AIELLO
Antonella Polimeni, Rector of Sapienza University of Rome
Speech by Luigia Carlucci Aiello
10:15 AM – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE: Luigia Carlucci Aiello, a Pioneer at Sapienza
Moderator: Alessio Jacona, science journalist
Opening remarks
Tiziana Catarci, Director of the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”
Luca Iocchi, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”
Marco Schaerf, Dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics
10:30 AM – Luigia Carlucci Aiello’s Contributions to Artificial Intelligence
Oliviero Stock, FBK Distinguished Fellow
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza University of Rome
11:00 AM – Keynote
Francesca Rossi, President of AAAI, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
12:00 PM – The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Italy
Tiziana Catarci, President of SIpEIA (Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence)
Giuseppe De Pietro, President of the FAIR Foundation
Gianluigi Greco, President of AIxIA
Maurizio Lenzerini, Coordinator of the National PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Sapienza)
Francesca Rossi, President of AAAI
Carlo Sansone, Director of the CINI-AIIS National Laboratory
Oliviero Stock, FBK Distinguished Fellow
1:00 PM – Closing
Closing remarks by Prof. Luigia Carlucci Aiello
Public access will be from 9:00 AM to 9:20 AM.
The event will be streamed live.
The public link will be published on this page shortly before the event.
Registration
Registration is required to attend the event and can be completed here.