Gerald Santucci

• Doctor of Philosophy in Economics
• Consultant at European Commission (retired)

P3 is a petri dish brimming with questions, not answers, but suggestions, to explore. The aim is not to teach or pontificate but may swing the proverbial pendulum between science and engineering in the context of commercial and consumer services. The reader may ponder about the amorphous questions or wonder in confusion. We disrupt the status quo a...

The INTEROP-VLab is today a virtual, i.e. distributed and coordinated research organization, which is capable of aggregating existing and future research laboratories in close connection with industry, to achieve a number of goals that each single participant organization could not reach. It animates a network of 9 regional poles, bringing together...

What are the differences and interrelationships between the concepts of “privacy”, “personal data protection” and “ethics”? The literature often mixes up these concepts with the result that there is some confusion. It is important to re-establish their respective nature, scope and challenges, which, although complementary, refer to different histor...

Face Recognition has been pervading in an unexpected and unprecedented way economies and societies over the last few months. It is not finished. In between promises and threats, hopes and fears, central regulation and lack of democratic debate, how can we describe the ethical challenges of face recognition, and which strategies can we devise in o...

The phrase “Artificial Intelligence” is not new. The Dartmouth Conference of 1956 was the moment when Artificial Intelligence gained its name, its mission, and its first bunch of famed scientific leaders – Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Claude Shannon, Nathan Rochester. (...) Since 2000, access to large amounts of data (“big data”) collected from b...

In this interview I shared my views on the key challenges of AI from the point of view of a European Commission senior official involved in digital policy making.

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities lying at the confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, especially pointing at the possibility that "smart connected objects" would behave like subjects while human beings - subjects - would adopt the norms and standards of their artefacts.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our digital society is giving rise to diverse expressions of entrepreneurship, up to the point that it is redefining the meaning of the word 'enterprise' in a context where 'the network is the business'. The almost organic combination of two Internet research domains, the 'Internet of Things' and the 'Future Internet Enterprise Sy...

This "book" contains the series of papers, articles, forewords and other written material, which I produced between 2006 and 2012 in the context of the European Commission's endeavors regarding RFID and the Internet of Things.

In this presentation, we will introduce and explain a research roadmap for Future Internet enterprise systems. This research roadmap has been developed by the community of scientists, developers and other stakeholders in the context of the “Future Internet Enterprise Systems” cluster, managed by the “Internet of Things and Networked Enterprise” uni...

Europe faces a challenge: how to apply information and communication technologies to health care. One problem is the widening gap between the expectations of citizens and the limited resources available to provide health services. It is here that advanced technology can serve as an important tool to find innovative and more efficient ways of delive...

The challenge for Europe in the field of information and communications technologies applied to health care is that of addressing positively the problem of the widening gap between the expectations of the citizens of the type of care that can be made available and the limited resources to provide that care. If the expectations of the population are...