TOUCH Specials - DIGITAL FOOTPRINT | Exploring the world of technology with a pop style that is entirely feminine. In Boston, at the headquarters of MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Exclusively on RaiPlay starting April 3rd.

Ranked among the top universities in the world, MIT is renowned for its undergraduate and research programs in fields such as engineering, physical sciences, computer science, economics, and management and boasts numerous innovations and significant discoveries: from early computers to advancements in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and sustainable energy. Cakalli reached the MIT Media Lab, one of its most representative divisions, where she met some well-known Italian researchers including Tomaso Poggio - one of the fathers of artificial intelligence - Jacopo Buongiorno - engaged in the development of advanced nuclear energy systems - Paola Cappellaro - specializing in quantum computing - and two young researchers: Serena Bono, a scholar of personal robotics, and Claudia Cea, awarded for the creation of a new type of neural implant. Fjona Cakalli, finally, interviewed Luciano Floridi, Italian philosopher and director of the Digital Ethics Department at Yale University, to shed light on the great complexity of issues related to the development of Artificial Intelligence.

“Touch - Impronta Digitale” is produced by Rai Digital Content and Transmedia Direction.