San Francisco Italy has showcased exclusive documentaries on leaders of the Italian community in the Bay Area like Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Angela Alioto. We continue now with Dr. Federico Faggin in this exclusive documentary created by Mauro Aprile Zannetti for the Italian Consulate in San Francisco. Dr. Faggin begins with his early childhood fascination building model planes and recounts how that passion sparked his lifelong love of technology – and eventually lead to him inventing one of the most ubiquitous technologies in today’s word: the microprocessor. It’s a beautiful story that outlines one of Italy’s greatest contributions to today’s global technical landscape.
So important was Dr. Faggin’s work that Obama conferred upon him the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest award the United States gives for achievements related to technological progress. The Italian Consulate in San Francisco is truly honored to include Dr. Faggin as an Ambassador of Italian Culture.
For further reading, here is Faggin on the future of computing. And here he discusses the fabric of consciousness.