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POET As a poet he was awarded several national prizes in his home country, Italy. His most notable poem is widely considered "Dialogo degli Amanti/ Dialogue of the Lovers", a dialogue among three characters (identified as "m", "f" and " ", the third one being probably a reference to a superhuman entity). HISTORIAN Scaruffi has published books on the history of rock music, on avantgarde music and a book on the USA. His most popular book is ''A History of Rock Music''" (2003), a thick scholarly work that spans 50 years of the genre. His writing on music is hosted online {Link without Title} and includes a history of Jazz and a history of modern Classical Music . SCIENTIST Piero Scaruffi researched in Artificial Intelligence from 1987 till 1996, both in the corporate and academic world (with stints as visiting scholar at the MIT and at Stanford University ). Afterwards, he conducted independent research on neuroscience, that resulted in his book ''Thinking About Thought'' (2003) and lectures at several academic institutions. His basic tenet is that consciousness is due to a general property of matter. This line of research led him to revisit Physics. His most important contribution is a theory of how Quantum Mechanics could be an emergent phenomenon due to the "ripples" caused by the observer traveling through spacetime. Believing that one cannot understand the human mind without first understanding what the human mind does, and that, fundamentally, the human mind creates civilizations, he also embarked in a study of the history of knowledge. In the 1980s, as a computer scientist working at a large computer maker, he pioneered Internet applications, Artificial Intelligence and object-orientated design. Asa an outgrowth of his computer job, he pioneered Internet-based journalism: in 1985 he created his first e-zine, distributed by e-mail over the Internet, that eventually evolved into his website www.scaruffi.com, originally devoted to rock music only (several years before such websites became ubiquitous). He has been on the board of the art magazine ''Leonardo'' ( MIT Press ). NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
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