Giovanni Soda was a pioneer of artificial intelligence research in Tuscany and among the first in Italy to study neural networks in the 1980s. He founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Florence and helped establish the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. A dedicated educator, he mentored generations of students and contributed significantly to the development of computer engineering education.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3117-9245
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6337-5430
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9663-1071
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6702-2277
Chapter Title
Giovanni Soda e l’intelligenza artificiale a Firenze
Authors
Paolo Frasconi, Marco Gori, Marco Lippi, Simone Marinai
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0975-5.23
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Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Book Title
Ingegneria Industriale & Ingegneria dell’Informazione per il territorio fiorentino
Book Subtitle
Ingegneria dell’Informazione - Volume 2
Editors
Stefano Selleri, Alberto Tesi, Enrico Vicario
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Number of Pages
230
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0975-5
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0974-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0975-5
Series Title
Dialoghi con la società
Series ISSN
2975-0210
Series E-ISSN
2975-0334