The last decade and a half have seen a renewed interest in the development of the IT industry in Italy and the role of the 1950s pioneers. The aim of the article is to retrace key stages of the first Italian project aimed at creating an electronic calculator, carried out by the University of Pisa in collaboration with Olivetti. The re-evaluation of the documents kept in the University's archives, including the technical projects, has proved fruitful and has shed light on lesser-known aspects of a project that opened the way to the birth of computer science in the country as a business and as a scientific discipline.

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比萨，1954-1961：评估一个开创性的意大利项目的关键阶段

在过去的十五年里，人们对意大利 IT 行业的发展以及 1950 年代先驱的作用重新产生了兴趣。本文的目的是追溯比萨大学与 Olivetti 合作开展的第一个旨在创建电子计算器的意大利项目的关键阶段。对保存在大学档案中的文件（包括技术项目）进行的重新评估证明是卓有成效的，并揭示了一个项目的鲜为人知的方面，该项目为该国计算机科学作为商业和商业的诞生开辟了道路作为一门科学学科。