The ISI Foundation is seeking to appoint a Senior Data Scientist and a Data Scientist to undertake applied research activities within the recently-funded Innovation Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of one of the major Italian banks, a mixed initiative between fundamental research performed at ISI Foundation and real-world business-driven challenges posed by the Italian bank.

From 24th to 26th July, Madrid hosted Data 2017, the 6th International Conference on Data Science Technology and Applications. Held at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the conference brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on databases, big data, data mining, data management, data security and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data.

The island of Sant'Antioco, in southwestern Sardinia, is hosting the Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Sciences . First of a series, this school focuses on methods for capturing, analyzing and modeling digital trace data (click streams, interaction networks, sequences of user activities).

Starting from the beginning of the 20th century, popular music has acquired a great importance in modern culture. Music industry grew accordingly, with a global market value in 2014 estimated at US$15 billion. While artists and labels constantly strive for fame and popularity, leaving a longstanding mark and influencing future works has become a very important achievement, too.

Il lavoro della Fondazione ISI sui Big Data è stato protagonista della puntata di SuperQuark andata in onda ieri sera (12 luglio) su Rai Uno.

The international FA*IR Project, whose team includes ISI Foundation Research Leader Francesco Bonchi (Eurecat), Meike Zehlike (Technische Universität Berlin), Sara Hajian (Eurecat), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (UPF), and Odej Kao (Technische Universität Berlin) has been awarded a DTL Grant 2017  by Data Transparency Lab.

The last few years have seen the emergence of novel and entirely digital forms of economic exchange, like sharing economy marketplaces where individuals can share goods and resources in real time, peer-to-peer financial services and purely digital currency such as Bitcoin. The common trait of such disruptive innovations is that they all rely on decentralized distributed networks of voluntary users: large interacting systems, where individual choices scale to collective consequences.

Wearable devices allow to quantify human behaviors and close-range interactions with unprecedented resolution, impacting diverse research areas such as social network analysis, organizational science, epidemiology, and more.

Digital technologies provide the opportunity to quantify human behavior with unprecedented levels of detail and scale. Personal electronic devices and wearable sensors, in particular, can be used to map the network structure of human or animal close-range interactions in a variety of settings relevant for research in epidemiology and public health.

In a general landscape where data science is growing rapidly, topological data analysis (TDA) is carving itself a niche for the analysis of datasets that present complex interactions and rich structures.

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”.