October 30, 2020 - 15:00 - Online
THE SECOND QUANTUM REVOLUTION IS UNDERWAY
The transformative role of Telecommunications and Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has long been witnessed as a precursor of the scientific progress and economic growth in the modern world. Today, like never before, we are witnessing a pervasive diffusion of ultra-broadband fixed-mobile connectivity, the deployment of Cloud-native 5G network and service platforms and a wide adoption of Artificial Intelligence. This is the so-called Digital Transformation, surely bringing far reaching techno-economic impacts on our Society. Nevertheless, this transformation is still laying its foundations on Electronics and the impending end of Moore’s Law: therefore, rethinking of the ways of doing computation, communications and networking has been already started. Will quantum technologies be the next breakthrough? As a matter of fact, a first quantum revolution started decades ago and has already brought quantum technologies in our everyday life. Today, really a second revolution seems to be underway. The lecture will provide an overview of the state-of-art of quantum technologies and services and it will address the main challenges the integration of quantum nodes and systems in current telecommunication infrastructures (e.g., 4G/5G).
Biosketch
Antonio Manzalini received the M. Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin (Italy) and the Ph.D in Computer Science and Networks from Sorbonne Universités (France). In 1990 he joined Telecom Italia (CSELT) to develop transport networks architectures. He has been ITU Rapporteur (1996-2000). He has been involved in leading roles of several EURESCOM and EU-funded Projects. In 2003 he has been appointed as member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya. In 2008 he has got the International Certification of Project Manager by PMI. He has been the leader of two EIT-Digital funded projects on SDN and NFV infrastructures (2010-2012). In 2013 he has been the Chair of the IEEE initiative on Software Defined Networks (2013-2016). Currently, he is joining the Board of IEEE Comsoc Industry Committee. He has been General Chair of the several IEEE Conferences. He is chair in GSMA of a group working on Quantum Technologies and Services. His results have been published in more than 150 technical papers and publications. He is currently working in TIM Technology/Innovation working on SDN-NFV, Cloud vs Multi-Access Edge Computing for 5G and Quantum Communications.
