The Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa
is pleased to invite you to the book presentation of:
In defiance of H., by Oliviero Stock
Introduced by Maria Sica, director of the Italian Cultural Institutes in Tel Aviv and in Haifa
Presents Oliviero Stock, author and scientist
Tuesday, September 06, at 18:30
Italian Cultural Institute
Rehov Meir Rutberg 12, Haifa
Free admission. Event held in Italian. Brief introduction in English
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Limited seats available
A light milk based/vegan refreshment will be served before the meeting
Austria 1938: Adolf Hitler enters Vienna in an open Mercedes, welcomed by the cheering crowd. From their house overlooking the Ring, Gerty – the author’s mother – and her parents watch the scene, well aware that soon they will be forced to abandon everything to save themselves. Ferdinand and Isabella, Adolf and Anna, Gerty and Guido, Harry and Georg – three generations of the Stock family – move with courage and creativity, assisted by a determining factor: luck. That same luck that will save them also in Nazi-Fascist Italy. IN DEFIANCE OF H. narrates their extraordinary stories, intertwined and pieced togheter through Ferdinand and Gerty’s diaries and an outmost accurate historical investigation, and testifies to the force of life on the brink of unspeakable abyss.
- FREE admission. Event in attendance, in ITALIAN (with a brief introduction in English). To reserve a seat, please complete and submit THIS FORM. Limited seats available.
As an alternative, you may follow this lecture online via:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoWQsGaZUKgSbWre2MeKqQ
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Oliviero Stock is an FBK Distinguished Fellow. He has been at FBK-irst, Trento, since 1988 and has been its director from 1997 to 2001. His activity is in artificial intelligence, mainly natural language processing, intelligent user interfaces, cognitive technologies, technology for cultural heritage appreciation, computational humor, computational ethics. He is the author of over two hundred and seventy peer-reviewed papers and author or editor of twelve volumes, has been a member of the editorial board of a dozen scientific journals, and a keynote speaker at over eighty conferences. O.S. has been Chairman of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI, now EURAI), President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and President of AI*IA, the Italian AI Association. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of DFKI, the German Research Institute for AI (2004-2019). He has been co-coordinator of a large bilateral project between FBK-irst, Trento, Italy and University of Haifa, Israel. The project focused on intelligent technology for museum visits and technology for favoring jointly acceptable narratives in a situation of conflict. He is an EURAI Fellow, a AAAI Fellow and a DFKI Fellow. In 2019 he received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Haifa. Also: currently he participates to the Digital Humanism movement.
Event held in Italian. FREE admission. In attendance.
A light milk base/vegan refreshment will be served before the meeting, starting at 18:00.
Tuesday, September 06, at 18:30
Italian Cultural Institute, Rehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa
To reserve a seat, please complete and submit THIS FORM. Limited seats available.
- Free parking available in Rehov Meir Rutberg 19 and in Rehov HaGanim 24.