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  • August 11, 2026
    The role of rationality in modern robotics
    Leslie Pack Kaelbling is a Professor at MIT. Her research agenda is to make intelligent robots using methods including learning, planning, and reasoning about uncertainty. She was working on agentic AI way before it became fashionable. On 29 May 2026 we met her at FBK where she held a seminar co-organized with AIXIA, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.
  • July 2, 2026
    The call of one’s destiny
    The talent development program of Fondazione Bruno Kessler is transformed from a pilot project to a continuous process that involves dozens and dozens of researchers every year. This year's edition was inaugurated with an inspirational workshop led by Alberto De Biasi
  • March 31, 2026
    Values in practice
    A seminar on the role of values in people’s lives, within work organizations—especially in the public sector and, in particular, in research contexts. The speakers were philosophers Paolo Costa and Lucia Galvagni, senior researchers at FBK-ISR.
  • November 26, 2025
    Quantum Entangled Conversations
    Saturday, November 8, in the beautiful Procuratie of Piazza San Marco in Venice, SMAC hosted the first in what is expected to become a long series of Quantum Entangled Conversations, a new format for dialogue between science, philosophy, and culture conceived as part of the exhibition The Quantum Effect.
  • November 20, 2023
    The bibliographic collections of Claudio Cesa and Enzo Collotti, a mirror of a European Weltanschauung
    2023 was an important year for acquisitions at Fondazione Bruno Kessler's Library, which is increasingly being characterized as a specialized library with a significant presence of personal fonds.
  • December 27, 2021
    How does the future look watched from above? Mountains after the pandemic
    The story of a day of public meetings designed to highlight the kaleidoscopic character of the "High lands".