From November 21 to 24, Pisa celebrates Leonardo Fibonacci, the mathematician who introduced Arabic numerals to Europe. The event coincides with Fibonacci Day, on November 23 (11/23 in the English date format, recalling the start of the famous Fibonacci sequence).

Promoted by the City of Pisa, the program features a variety of events, including activities organized in collaboration with the University of Pisa and faculty members from the Department of Computer Science.

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The second edition of the Quantum Festival, dedicated to quantum computing, is about to begin, with the theme #SguardiAlFuturo (Looking to the Future).

The initiative, promoted by the University’s Departments of Computer Science and Physics and organised by members of the Pisa Quantum Group, will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 in the Aula Magna, Polo Fibonacci.

Participation is free thanks to the support of sponsors such as ICSC  (National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing), Quantinuum, Planckian, and Rigetti.

This year, the Festival is structured into three tracks, each dedicated to a different audience: Education, Research, and Main.

On 5 November, the European Commission’s AI Office began drafting the Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content, as provided for in Article 50 of the AI Act.
Over seven months, two working groups comprising experts in technology, law and society will define a framework to prevent deception and manipulation related to synthetic content and strengthen public trust.
Professor Dino Pedreschi has been appointed by the AI Office as vice-chair of Working Group 1: Transparency obligations applicable to providers of generative AI systems, tasked with developing guidelines on the transparency and recognisability of content generated by generative artificial intelligence.

Antonio Cisternino, our professor and president of the Information System at the University of Pisa, is the only Italian among the 300 professors chosen by OpenAI Academy, a free educational platform launched by OpenAI to facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence in various sectors.

OpenAI has just published a video in which Cisternino talks about how he successfully used ChatGPT in the ICT Infrastructure course of the Master’s Degree in Computer Science.

https://academy.openai.com/public/videos/antonio-cisternino-ict-infrastructures-and-advanced-programming-2025-08-21

The excellent feedback prompted the lecturer, together with Professor Andrea Corradini, to take an innovative approach to designing the new edition of the Advanced Programming course, also for the Master’s Degree in Computer Science, focusing on Artificial Intelligence.

The video presents the fundamental ideas behind this new teaching approach, which is not limited to introducing a new tool, but demonstrates the desire and ability to test the technologies that are changing the world.

Technological innovations are often met with scepticism. In this case, a constructive and informed approach was preferred, which is particularly important in programming, where AI is set to profoundly transform the future landscape.

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