COMPLEXITY TRANSLATION EXERCISES: A GLOSSARY FOR FBK’S RESEARCH WORLDS
Scientific excellence feeds on knowledge challenges that find application in our daily lives: from the smartphones we use to the universe we explore. The FBK dictionary series offers close encounters with the disciplinary fields that shape Fondazione Bruno Kessler, one word at a time.

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FBK is like an ever-expanding galaxy of subject specializations. Each conceptual system addresses unsolved problems or asks new questions to refine methods and test innovative solutions. This applies to scientific-technological research as well as to humanities and social sciences. Such a wide observatory sometimes offers the advantage of being able to draw on interpretive schemes from different sources. This possibility of having the vessels of the so-called hard science fields communicate with humanistic approaches and backgrounds is uncommon, and represents, perhaps now more than ever, a great opportunity in the time of rapid changes dictated by the ever-expanding use of artificial intelligence. An organization such as ours, which is polycentric, encompassing within it a dozen horizons of meaning, is a veritable laboratory of interdisciplinarity and cultural diversity, where every day more than 450 researchers from about 30 countries exchange views with each other, weave relationships with other scholars from all over the world, make hypotheses, discuss their theories and develop novel paths…

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