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Appointment with the famous physicist and inventor Federico Faggin, pioneer in the field of microelectronics and father of the microprocessor. “Before him, Silicon Valley was just the Valley,” said Bill Gates. An opportunity to retrace the stages of his extraordinary career, from the invention of the touchpad and touchscreen to the founding of innovative startups, up to his current commitment to research on consciousness. In dialogue with Marcello Foa, journalist and USI professor, Federico Faggin shared the most significant stages of his career, his research and his reflections in a meeting entitled “Beyond perceptions: the charm and mystery of quantum physics”.