Pier Giorgio Perotto

Pier Giorgio Perotto (Turin, December 24, 1930 – Genoa, January 23, 2002) was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor.

[1][2][3] Graduated at the Turin Polytechnic, Perotto taught for many years at the same University and published several books and articles regarding strategy, business organization and technology.

[4] After this moment he turned himself into a committed teacher and a prolific writer, writing with many essays (in Italian) about business management and future of computing.

In 1991, he earned the Leonardo da Vinci Award for having developed a ground-breaking machine, the Programma 101, an early programmable calculator.

[6][7][3] Programma 101 was officially launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair, attracting major interest from the public and the press.

P. G. Perotto (seated to the left) with the P101 team
Front view of a Programma 101 at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park