Nationality Italian Name Piero Scaruffi | ||
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Parents Mario Scaruffi, Rosa Scaruffi Books A History of Rock Music - 19, The Nature of Consciousness, A History of Popular Music bef, Storia del rock, A History of Jazz Music 1900‑2000 | ||
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Piero Scaruffi (born 26 April 1955) is an Italian-American freelance software consultant and university lecturer who maintains a music website on which his reviews are published. Scaruffi also reviews many films. He has created his own publishing society called Omnipublishing that exclusively releases his books about music and science.
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- Early life and education
- Career
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Since 1983, Scaruffi has resided in Silicon Valley, California.
Scaruffi's website, which covers a wide range of topics, was the subject of a 2006 article by Dan Morrell in The New York Times.
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Early life and education
Scaruffi was born on 26 April 1955 in Trivero, a comune in the Province of Biella of Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin in 1982 with a degree in Mathematics.
Career
For a number of years he worked for Olivetti on artificial intelligence. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Stanford University (conducting research on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science), lectured on "The Nature of Mind" and "History of Knowledge" (most recently at U.C. Berkeley), and published on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including Thinking About Thought (2003) and The Nature of Consciousness (2006).
His work aims to bridge artificial intelligence, mathematics, science and art. As a software consultant, he worked on Internet applications, Artificial Intelligence and Object-Oriented design in Silicon Valley. He is an Italian naturalized American. He also writes about music. He has self-published books on Omniware, a publishing company of which he is also the president and founder. Omniware has so far exclusively released books by Scaruffi. He published books about the history of rock music, jazz, avant garde music and modern popular music. One of them, A History of Rock Music, 1951–2000, self-published on iUniverse in 2003, spans 50 years of the genre; Scaruffi estimated that it had sold 1,500 copies by 2006. His writings on music are hosted online on his own website, scaruffi.com, and include a history of jazz and a history of modern classical music. The website, especially its music section, was the subject of an article in The New York Times by Dan Morrell on October 15, 2006. Morrell noted the "staggering" volume of Scaruffi's work, given that the site is "a one-man operation". Scaruffi is known for his controversial criticism of popular musical acts like Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Prince and U2. Scaruffi seems to be influenced by some Marxist theories about art and society like other Italian critics of his generation (e.g. Riccardo Bertoncelli), who were important in Italy in the 1970s. From 2000 to 2003 he was a member of the Governing Board of Directors of the journal Leonardo. He chaired, among others, the Big Bang conference of June 2008 at UC-Berkeley. He has compiled an extensive "Annotated Bibliography of Mind-Related" Topics", as well. In 2006, he lived in Redwood City.
He has been running the Leonardo Art Science Evenings (LASERS) at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University since 2008. He also runs the interdisciplinary quarterly events SMMMASH at Stanford University. Scaruffi is involved in organising and moderating events for Stanford Continuing Studies.