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Italian American writer

Piero Scaruffi (born 1955) is an Italian American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published. He has created his own publishing entity called Omnipublishing, which exclusively releases his books about music and science.

Scaruffi was born in 1955 in Trivero, a comune in the Province of Biella of Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in Mathematics. as well as at Stanford University. 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 American, a naturalized U. S. citizen. He also writes about music. He published books about the history of rock music, jazz, avant garde music and modern popular music. One of them, A History of Rock and Dance Music, vol 1 and 2, spans 50 years of the genre; Scaruffi estimated that it had sold 1,500 copies by 2006. The most widely known entry on Scaruffi's website is his career spanning essay on the Beatles, effectively a polemic against the critical and popular consensus regarding the band's influence on modern music. Scaruffi 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. He has been running the Leonardo Art Science Evenings (LASERS) at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, a series that he established in 2008 and as of 2022 spread to 50 universities worldwide. He also runs the interdisciplinary quarterly events SMMMASH at Stanford University. Scaruffi is involved in organising and moderating events for Stanford Continuing Studies.