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Silicon – The Autobiography of Federico Faggin
The Faggin Foundation is thrilled to announce that Federico Faggin’s autobiography “Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness” is now available in English in paperback or kindle editions. Published in February of 2021, the audiobook edition will be available in March 2021. To stay informed on the latest, please join our mailing list.
What is Consciousness?
My curiosity about consciousness started in the late eighties when I asked myself if it was possible to make a conscious computer. In the early sixties, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, speculated that soon computers would surpass human intelligence. Despite being much more powerful, today’s computers are not one bit more conscious, than the computers in early sixties.
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Federico Faggin
IN MAY 2019 FEDERICO FAGGIN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY SILICIO WAS PUBLISHED IN ITALY BY MONDADORI.
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And the rest is history
In Fairchild 3708, he creates MOS IC technology with silicon gate.
1968
At Intel, Federico Faggin designed the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
1971
Magnification of the initials of Federico Faggin (F.F.) on the 4004.
1971
Faggin is included in the US National Inventors Hall of Fame
1996
Faggin receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, from President Obama.
2010
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Science and religion are not in contrast, but they need each other to complete themselves in the mind of a man who thinks seriously.
Max PlanckNobel Prize in Physics
Consciousness is the presence of God in man.
Emanuel SwedenborgSwedish philosopher, mystic, theologian, medium and clairvoyant
Everything is an enigma and the key to an enigma is another enigma.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican philosopher, writer, essayist and poet
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