Torna Class Digital Week, la settimana dedicata allo sviluppo della conoscenza e dell'innovazione digitale. La seconda edizione della manifestazione, in programma a Milano dal 26 giugno al 2 luglio 2017, propone un calendario di conferenze, seminari e laboratori aperti al pubblico, spaziando tra design e robotica, editoria digitale e Internet of Things, intelligenza artificiale e digital green.

ISI Research Leader and Inserm Senior Researcher Vittoria Colizza has won the Erdős–Rényi Prize 2017. The prize, awarded by the Network Science Society to a selected young scientist (under 40 years) for her/his achievements in research activities in the area of network science, has been announced Thursday, June 22, at the NetSci 2017 conference in Indianapolis.

Every field of human activities is characterized by the emergence of novelties: a new song, a new movie, a new book, a new Twitter hashtag, and so on. The introduction of a new idea expands the possibility to explore newer concepts and, once introduced, this new idea has to compete with other concomitant ideas. Only some of them will stand out from the crowd, while the vast majority will never become known enough within the population, destined to fade into oblivion.

NetSci 2017 is an international conference that brings together leading researchers and practitioners working in the emerging area of network science. Organized by the Network Science Society and held from June 19 to June 23 at the JW Marriott Indianapolis in downtown Indianapolis, the conference fosters interdisciplinary communication and collaboration across computer and information sciences, physics, mathematics, statistics, the life sciences, neuroscience, environmental sciences, social sciences, finance and business, arts and design.

The Kreyon conference is the place where the dynamics of creativity and innovation are revealed. From 6 to 9 September 2017, dozens of scientists from different disciplines (physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, social and cognitive sciences, arts, economics, business) will gather in Rome, Italy, in order to address fundamental questions about how people express their creativity and innovate both at the individual and collective levels.

In 2016, Zika virus (ZIKV) quickly spread throughout the Americas, with 47 countries and territories in the region reporting autochthonous transmission. Many countries with ZIKV outbreaks have reported cases of microcephaly and other birth defects associated with ZIKV infection during pregnancy, and the epidemic has been under close scrutiny by all of the major public health agencies around the world.

From Monday 12 June to Friday 16 June, UNICRI – United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute is helding a course about “Emerging Technologies and Security”. Current and future developments of new technologies have potentially far-reaching implications, changing the dynamics of security governance and growing a considerable appeal for non-state actors, including terrorist organizations and organized crime.

On line Lagrange CRT Foundation Prize: Notice of Competition 2017

In 2016, especially after the Brexit referendum in the UK and the Donald Trump presidential election in the USA, media have started to frantically discuss the influence of social networks and microblogging platforms on people's knowledge exchange and behaviour. The more complex phenomenon of online information propagations on networks like Facebook and Twitter, not only linked to political elections but to several aspects of everyday life, has also attracted the interest of computer scientists, sociologists, information technologists, and marketing specialists.

Today citizens are becoming more and more subject to socio-economic and political decisions made using statistical models trained on cross-referenced data, originating from governments, industry and people themselves (through social media). However, even the cleanest of datasets may contain bias: starting from gender, age and/or ethnicity and getting to full-blown discriminatory profiling. It is therefore imperative to study scientifically the causes and effects of bias in the era of Big Data, in order to propose palliative measures.

An international team, mainly formed by ISI Foundation researchers, is going through a month-long residency at IMÉRA – Institut d'études avancées of Marseille. From May 22 to June 17, the Mesoscope project will be focused in “visual tools for the exploration of structures in multidimensional data”.

Internet, social media, digital and Web technologies have significantly changed the landscape of public health surveillance and epidemic intelligence gathering, providing unprecedented opportunities to harvest for new solutions and tools to face both global and local health emergencies.

The recent availability of human mobility data has impacted several research fields, ranging from urban planning to social sciences. One of its most successful applications has undoubtedly been the spatial epidemiology of infectious diseases, though previous works have shown that using different mobility data sources – such as mobile phone data or census surveys – to parametrize infectious disease models can generate divergent outcomes.

In quale misura i progressi delle tecnologie dell'informazione trasformeranno la società in cui viviamo? Come influiranno sulle relazioni fra cittadini e governanti?

Contagion is a satellite meeting of the Conference on Complex Systems, the major annual international event gathering scientific communities engaged in Complex Systems research. Since 2012, the satellite brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (physics, mathematics, biology, epidemiology, human and veterinary medicine, computer science, information technologies, social sciences), focusing on the many challenges that the battle against infectious diseases is still facing in the XXI century.

Nel 2016, in un solo anno, gli esseri umani hanno prodotto la stessa quantità di dati generata nell'intera storia dell'umanità fino al 2015. E il processo di accelerazione è ancora ben lontano dall'essere concluso: si stima che entro dieci anni, con la diffusione della Internet of Things, 150 miliardi di sensori saranno connessi in rete e la quantità di informazioni prodotte raddoppierà ogni dodici ore. Stiamo entrando nella quinta rivoluzione dell'IT: dopo i grandi computer e i pc, dopo Internet e gli smartphone, l'era dei Big Data.

“Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Fusing Digital Indicators and a Mechanistic Disease Model” received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at WWW2017

La Legge Finanziaria per il 2017 prevede la possibilità di destinare il 5 per mille delle tue imposte alla Fondazione ISI, in quanto Ente di Ricerca Scientifica. Non ti costa nulla. Non è una tassa in più. Sei tu che decidi a chi destinare il 5 per mille. È una quota di imposte a cui lo Stato rinuncia per destinarla alle organizzazioni no-profit per sostenere le loro attività.

The availability of mobile phone datasets has opened the possibility to improve our understanding of how humans communicate, socialize and move around cities.

ISI Foundation will join WWW 2017, the 26th International World Wide Web Conference. Held in Perth, Australia, 3-7 April, the event will focus on the evolution of digital networks, new technical standards, the impact of the web on society, and its future.

Il professor Mario Rasetti, co-fondatore e presidente della ISI Foundation, sarà tra gli ospiti della prima edizione del Milano Marketing Festival, in programma dal 23 al 25 marzo presso La Fabbrica del Vapore.