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Roberto Vacca

Roberto Vacca Roberto Vacca (Rome, Italy, May 31, 1927) is an Italian engineer, mathematician, writer, science and technology popularizer. Contents •	1  Biography •	2 Science popularizer •	3 Writer •	4 Books o	4.1  Fiction o	4.2  Essays •	5° Links

Biography His father, Giovanni Vacca, was a mathematician and well known scholar of Chinese culture. His mother, Virginia de Bosis[1], sister of the writer and patriot Lauro De Bosis wrote essays on Arabic and Islamic culture and wrote for the magazine Oriente Moderno, on politics of the Arab world. He graduated in electrical engineering at Rome University in 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he designed and built high voltage electrical networks. In 1954 he worked on applications of continuous volumetric speedgears. From 1955 to 1961 he was a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in the field of digital computers. From 1960 to 1967 he taught a course on digital computers at Rome University. From 1961 Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – now Life Member. From 1962 to 1975 General and Technical Manager of CGA, a subsidiary of LFE Electronics, a company active in the design and construction of electronic traffic control system. In 1972-73 he designed and built the first computerized traffic control of a motorway – the Urban Tangenziale in Naples, Italy. In 1975 and to date consultant in communications, system engineering, management and forecasting – of technology, industrial and commercial development. He has developed effective math procedures (based on Volterra equations) and software for analyzing and forecasting growth and decline of human artifacts, biological populations, epidemics. Since 1959 he does research in mathematical logic and number theory. From 1969 he has Erdős Number 6, having published a paper with Wolf Gross and from 2011 Erdős Number 3 having published a paper with Franco P. Preparata. •	 (A Three-valued System of Logic and its Applications to Base 3 digital Circuits) (Proceedings 1st IFIPS Conference, Parigi 1959) •	(Distribution of Figures 0 and 1 in Binary Representations of kth Powers of Integers) (with Wolf Gross, Mathematics of Computation,1968) •	(Representations of Powers of Integers in any prime base) (with Franco P. Preparata, in Journal of Number Theory, 2011)

Science Popularizer Roberto Vacca, has contributed hundreds of articles on science, technology, economics, forecasting to Italian and Swiss periodicals. He has written and broadcast many TV programs on science and technology, as well as on criticism of current scientific fads and fallacies, for Italian and Swiss television. From 2012 he disseminates his knowledge (his Memes) through a mailing list, sending to many thousand followers and friends a few articles every month. To have your e-mail address included in the list, you just send a message to mc4634@mclink.it --- but the articles are mostly in Italian: however, they are for free.

Writer Roberto Vacca wrote his first book at age 13: “Osservazioni sulla Medicina Popolare Spezzina” or “Notes on Popular Medicine in the Region of La Spezia, Italy” – diagnoses and cures were written in the local dialect. His first book was the SF novel Il robot e il minotauro, in 1963; the second in 1965 was Esempi di avvenire. (short SF stories and short essays). These had little success. His first success was “The Coming Dark Age” published by Mondadori in 1971 as IL MEDIOEVO PROSSIMO VENTURO, and by Doubleday in 1973. This was the scenario of a downfall of Western civilization caused by excessive complexity resulting in a gridlock of all large technological systems (energy, transportation, telecommunications). This was the theme of the novel “The Death of Megalopolis” for which Dalton Trumbo wrote a screenplay for a film that was never produced.

Books Fiction •	Il robot e il minotauro (1963) •	Esempi di avvenire (1965) •	La morte di megalopoli (1974) •	Der Todt der Megalopolis (1977) •	 Crude and Evil (1975) – [Greggio e Perisoloso]  economic fiction •	Perengana (1977) satyre •	The Supreme Pokazuka (1980) economic fiction •	The Labyrinth of Memory (1988) cultural novel •	Dio e il computer (1989) romanzo giallo •	A Sort of Traitors (1997) [Una Sorta di Traditori] – historical novel •	Kill? (2005) political fiction [Should S. Berlusconi be killed?]

Essays •	Manuale per un'improbabile salvezza (1974) [Handbook for an Improbable Salvation] •	The Coming Dark Age (1973) •	Modest Technologies for a Complicated World (1980) •	How to Learn More Things and Live Better (1982) •	How to Manage Yourself and Face the World (1983) •	 You Too – a Mathematician [Anche tu matematico (1989) •	 The Path of Reason [La via della ragione ](1993) •	Osservazioni sulla medicina popolare spezzina (1997) •	Dr. Dolittle and Dr. Talkalot (2000) •	You Too a Physicist [Anche tu fisico] (2012) – to teach physics to intellectuals who don’t know it •	Salvare il prossimo decennio (2011) •	 Memes – Concepts, Ideas, Words from where? To Where? “Memi, concetti, idee, parole: da dove? verso dove?”(2011); with 4 videos and audio: Primo Levi talking for one hour to Roberto Vacca in 1982 –   also 80 old songs and ballads for lone voice [in Latin, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Italian dialects]. This can be downloaded from Applestore for iPad

Links www.robertovacca.com www.printandread.com

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Roberto Vacca

Roberto Vacca Roberto Vacca (Rome, Italy, May .31, 1927) is an Italian engineer, mathematician, writer, science and technology popularizer. Contents •	1  Biography •	2 Science popularizer •	3 Writer •	4 Books o	4.1  Fiction o	4.2  Essays •	5° Links

Biography His father, Giovanni Vacca, was a mathematician and well known scholar of Chinese culture. His mother, Virginia de Bosis[1], sister of the writer and patriot Lauro De Bosis wrote essays on Arabic and Islamic culture and wrote for the magazine Oriente Moderno, on politics of the Arab world. He graduated in electrical engineering at Rome University in 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he designed and built high voltage electrical networks. In 1954 he worked on applications of continuous volumetric speedgears. From 1955 to 1961 he was a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in the field of digital computers. From 1960 to 1967 he taught a course on digital computers at Rome University. From 1961 Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – now Life Member. From 1962 to 1975 General and Technical Manager of CGA, a subsidiary of LFE Electronics, a company active in the design and construction of electronic traffic control system. In 1972-73 he designed and built the first computerized traffic control of a motorway – the Urban Tangenziale in Naples, Italy. In 1975 and to date consultant in communications, system engineering, management and forecasting – of technology, industrial and commercial development. He has developed effective math procedures (based on Volterra equations) and software for analyzing and forecasting growth and decline of human artifacts, biological populations, epidemics. Since 1959 he does research in mathematical logic and number theory. From 1969 he has Erdős Number 6, having published a paper with Wolf Gross and from 2011 Erdős Number 3 having published a paper with Franco P. Preparata. •	 (A Three-valued System of Logic and its Applications to Base 3 digital Circuits) (Proceedings 1st IFIPS Conference, Parigi 1959) •	(Distribution of Figures 0 and 1 in Binary Representations of kth Powers of Integers) (with Wolf Gross, Mathematics of Computation,1968) •	(Representations of Powers of Integers in any prime base) (with Franco P. Preparata, in Journal of Number Theory, 2011)

Science Popularizer Roberto Vacca, has contributed hundreds of articles on science, technology, economics, forecasting to Italian and Swiss periodicals. He has written and broadcast many TV programs on science and technology, as well as on criticism of current scientific fads and fallacies, for Italian and Swiss television. From 2012 he disseminates his knowledge (his Memes) through a mailing list, sending to many thousand followers and friends a few articles every month. To have your e-mail address included in the list, you just send a message to mc4634@mclink.it --- but the articles are mostly in Italian: however, they are for free.

Writer Roberto Vacca wrote his first book at age 13: “Osservazioni sulla Medicina Popolare Spezzina” or “Notes on Popular Medicine in the Region of La Spezia, Italy” – diagnoses and cures were written in the local dialect. His first book was the SF novel Il robot e il minotauro, in 1963; the second in 1965 was Esempi di avvenire. (short SF stories and short essays). These had little success. His first success was “The Coming Dark Age” published by Mondadori in 1971 as IL MEDIOEVO PROSSIMO VENTURO, and by Doubleday in 1973. This was the scenario of a downfall of Western civilization caused by excessive complexity resulting in a gridlock of all large technological systems (energy, transportation, telecommunications). This was the theme of the novel “The Death of Megalopolis” for which Dalton Trumbo wrote a screenplay for a film that was never produced.

Books Fiction •	Il robot e il minotauro (1963) •	Esempi di avvenire (1965) •	La morte di megalopoli (1974) •	Der Todt der Megalopolis (1977) •	 Crude and Evil (1975) – [Greggio e Perisoloso]  economic fiction •	Perengana (1977) satyre •	The Supreme Pokazuka (1980) economic fiction •	The Labyrinth of Memory (1988) cultural novel •	Dio e il computer (1989) romanzo giallo •	A Sort of Traitors (1997) [Una Sorta di Traditori] – historical novel •	Kill? (2005) political fiction [Should S. Berlusconi be killed?]

Essays •	Manuale per un'improbabile salvezza (1974) [Handbook for an Improbable Salvation] •	The Coming Dark Age (1973) •	Modest Technologies for a Complicated World (1980) •	How to Learn More Things and Live Better (1982) •	How to Manage Yourself and Face the World (1983) •	 You Too – a Mathematician [Anche tu matematico (1989) •	 The Path of Reason [La via della ragione ](1993) •	Osservazioni sulla medicina popolare spezzina (1997) •	Dr. Dolittle and Dr. Talkalot (2000) •	You Too a Physicist [Anche tu fisico] (2012) – to teach physics to intellectuals who don’t know it •	Salvare il prossimo decennio (2011) •	 Memes – Concepts, Ideas, Words from where? To Where? “Memi, concetti, idee, parole: da dove? verso dove?”(2011); with 4 videos and audio: Primo Levi talking for one hour to Roberto Vacca in 1982 –   also 80 old songs and ballads for lone voice [in Latin, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and Italian dialects]. This can be downloaded from Applestore for iPad

Links www.robertovacca.com www.printandread.com