20-12-2017

Carlo Meghini has been invited to give the 2018 Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities

This is a prestigious event held once a year, details of past years are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/SusanHockeyLecture

16-10-2017

Ercan E. Kuruoglu has been invited to Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry (14–16 May 2018, Barcelona)

Ercan E. Kuruoglu has been invited as plenary speaker to present his work on studying genomic processes in the framework of information theory: "In Search of the Optimal Genetic Code".

12-10-2017

The MOSCARDO project aims at developing integrated technologies to perform more sophisticated and effective assessments of the conservation status of masonry constructions and to monitor their behaviour over time

In this context, a preliminary experimental campaign was conducted on 3-5 October 2017 to measure the ambient vibrations of the "Voltone", a large vaulted masonry structure located beneath "Piazza della Repubblica" in Livorno. Some accelerometers ...

23-06-2017

Il calamaro gigante esiste, ecco dove

I primi avvistamenti leggendari del calamaro gigante risalgono ad Aristotele, nel 500 a.c., quelli storici vanno dal 1639 nei mari della Norvegia, al 2015 in Giappone. Oggi, grazie alle nuove tecniche di archiviazione ed elaborazione dati del NeM...

23-06-2017

ElasTest: a cloud-based test platform for testing large complex distributed software systems

The ElasTest project (http://elastest.eu/), with an € 5M of EU funding under the Research and Innovation Action from the Horizon 2020 program, kicked-off in January 2017. The goal of ElasTest is to increase software quality by reducing the comp...

21-06-2017

PETAL, new AAL project coordinated by CNR

The European AAL PETAL project will start in the coming weeks, coordinated by Fabio Paternò (ISTI-CNR Pisa), head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems, a laboratory that already participates in other international proje...

29-03-2017

The restoration documentation system, developed by CNR for the restoration of the Neptune Fountain (Bologna), presented at Ferrara Restauro

The first results of the restoration of the Neptune Fountain in Bologna have been presented on March 24th, 2017, at Ferrara Restauro, Ferrara, within a thematic conference organized by the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro (I...

17-03-2017

R. Scopigno presented a keynote talk at a symposium organized by the Metropolitan Museum and CHI, New York (USA), March 7th-8th, 2017

Roberto Scopigno has been invited to present a keynote talk at the Symposium on "Illumination of Material Culture: A Symposium on Computational Photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)", jointly organized by the Metropolitan Museum...

16-01-2017

A new Joint International Research Lab approved by DIITET, to join and foster the skills and technologies of CNR and CNRS on the themes of 3D digitization and interactive graphics for CH applications

A new project has been recently financed, starting in 2017: a joint international research lab on 3D digitisation, whose goal is to integrate and foster the skills and technical resources of CNR-ISTI Visual Computing Lab (led by Roberto Scopigno) ...

20-12-2016

ERCIM News - appointment of a new CNR Representative

Maurice ter Beek takes over Carol Peters' role as CNR Representative in the Editorial Board of ERCIM News. Thanks Carol for your commitment, enthusiasm and skills as Editor, and good luck to Maurice for his new role.