CRS4 welcomes a prestigious advisory board

The Advisory Board with a very high technical-scientific profile will provide assistance, support and advice to the management of CRS4. The Board currently includes 8 nationally and internationally acclaimed experts from various fields: Gaetano Bergami, president of the Emilia Romagna aerospace district and legal rappresentative of BMC High Performance Air Filters, a major brand in the motorsport industry; Massimo Comparini, CEO of the space joint venture Thales Alenia Space Italia; Federico Faggin, physicist and inventor of the first microprocessors and RAMs, as well as entrepreneur who started the company that developed the first touchpads and touch screens; Oskar Mencer, head of the computer architecture research group in the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London and CEO of Maxeler technologies, a company specialised in maximum software acceleration; Enrico Prati, researcher at the CNR's Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, working on quantum computers and artificial intelligence; Carlo Magrassi, former general of the Italian Air Force, security and defence expert, former military advisor to the Italian Prime Minister and former Secretary General of Defence; Alfio Quarteroni, well‐known mathematician specialized in numerical analysis and scientific computing, scientific director during the first five years of CRS4, currently full professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Milan Polytechnic; Roberto Scopigno, director of CNR‐ISTI, expert in 3D graphics, digitalisation and interactive visualisation technologies, and applications to cultural heritage.