Paolo Magrassi is an Italian technologist known as one of the authors of the

Supranet Supranet is a term coined at the turn of the 21st century by information technology analysis firm Gartner to describe the fusion of the physical and the digital (virtual) worlds, a concept that embeds the "Internet of things" as one of its elements ...

concept, the co-creator of the AlphaIC methodology for assessing the value of

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology syste ...

expenditures, and the manager of the Pontifex project, which in the mid-1980s introduced a novel approach to complex fleet scheduling. In the early 2000s, Magrassi also was instrumental in introducing to the industrial and business world then-emerging miniature

RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...

and

internet of things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

technologies such as those proposed by the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

's Auto-ID Center.P.Magrassi, "A World Of Smart Objects: The Role Of Auto Identification Technologies", Strategic Analysis Report,

Gartner Gartner, Inc is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences. Its client ...

, Stamford (CT), USA, 2001. He also published several books, including ''The Caricature Of A Revolution'' (2012), ''Digitalmente confusi'' (2011), ''La good-enough society'' (2010), ''Difendersi dalla complessità'' (2009), ''Il filo conduttore '' (2006), ''2015 Weekend nel futuro'' (2005), ''A World Of Smart Objects'' (2002).

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