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CRS4 Information Society: the internet of thingsPublished on 2011/12/21 (447 reads)
The "Information Society" is one of CRS4's research areas focused in digital content technologies, interaction design, geoweb and internet of things, search and mobile, for designing and developing some of the "next" applications in the fields of tourism, tv, home, etc. Advanced mobile devices and pervasive high-speed Internet, at work, at home, anywhere, are continuously transfoming our society. Information Society Research Programs: Digital Media Applications The Digital Media Applications group (DMA) is focused on developing innovative and practicable solutions enabling organizations and people to take advantage of the fast growing amount of digital content that is available nowadays. Modern societies rely heavily on digital media for fulfilling their vital functions. Digital content plays a key role in creative industries and boosts new forms of human expression based on the convergence of technology and arts. Research interests span several areas: - digital asset management: developing tools and methodologies for ingesting, classifying, searching, adapting and preserving digital assets across their whole value chain; - future television: researching new models of producing, aggregating and consuming video content; - knowledge management: finding solutions for making information understandable and usable; - embedded consumer: developing solutions for accessing digital media from mobile devices.
- MediaDART, a framework for resource processing that can be scaled over a cluster of computers accessing a shared storage. - Notre-DAM, a web-based, multi-user digital asset management platform. - CreaTivù, an application for automatically building web TV channels from user generated video clips. Location and Sensor Based Services The Location and Sensor Based Services group is focused on geolocation, mobile technologies, and Internet of things over SOA standards applied to the vertical fields of the “future applications” for Tourism, TV, Home. Relevant examples of our current development include: - novel visualization of large sets of multimedia geo-referenced resources on mobile and large screen displays. - Implementation, testing and refinement of models, tools and use cases for new services based on composition and collaboration of real and virtual objects. - Integration of user generated content, sensor data and personal navigation systems. (Read more) Natural Interaction Technologies Our main research and development themes are the following:
People Pietro Zanarini is the director of the Information Society sector at CRS4. His current activities focus on launching new CRS4 initiatives to help further the growth of Sardinia in the Information Society. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Bologna (1982). Before joining CRS4, he worked for 9 years at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva (... where the web was born!), developing some of the major CERN Software Application Packages (GEANT3, PAW, KUIP). He came to Sardinia in 1991 as the first employee of CRS4, helping the founding CEO to set-up the Centre from scratch. In 1993 he co-launched "L'Unione Sarda On-Line" project, one of the first on-line newspapers available on Internet/WWW, that originated the Video On Line Internet Service Provider and, with the later advent of Tiscali, de-facto started a process of transformation of Sardinia in one of the Internet key players. In 2006 he launched the "DistrICT", a multi-lab facility to develop advanced prototypes of possible "future" applications of state-of-the-art technologies, aiming at catalyzing innovation in current companies of Sardinia, attracting and stimulating collaborations with outside companies, faciliting the birth of spin-off and start-up companies in the ICT-Information Society. Some of the topics of this multi-lab are: Natural Interaction Technologies, Open Media-Center, Digital Media Applications, Collaborative production of multi-platform TV programs and new TV formats for digital contents, Location and Sensor Based Services, GeoWeb and Mobile Applications. CRS4, a fully owned subsidiary of Sardegna Ricerche, currently has a staff of 160. The company pursues scientific research and technology development and innovation, delivers further scientific and technical education and training, and provides advanced services in the sectors of high-performance computing, scientific imaging, simulation, modelling, bioinformatics and ICTs in general. The Centre operates in strategic sectors such as the information society, energy, the environment, medicine, biotechnologies and pharmacology (Read more). 
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News Published on 2012/2/10
E' attiva la nuova versione del più popolare sito di microblogging: si chiama Fly Twitter. Una vera e propria rivoluzione che non manca di destare pareri contrastanti tra gli utenti. Cliccando sull’hashtag #newtwitter è possibile seguire le opinioni sul nuovo look di Twitter. di Monica Mureddu Published on 2012/1/31
 I protagonisti di Sardegna 2.0: Sardex.net. Il baratto del nuovo millennio si fa con la moneta elettronica. Superare la crisi economica, fare acquisti senza euro, riuscire ad ampliare la propria quota di mercato e ottenere crediti a tasso zero. Non una missione impossibile ma l’opportunità offerta da Sardex.net, circuito di credito commerciale che si basa su un innovativo mezzo di pagamento: la moneta complementare locale.
di Maddalena Brunetti (Read All)Published on 2012/1/26
Nel 2011 quasi la metà dei 100 top spender italiani in advertising ha sviluppato almeno un’applicazione Mobile. Il Mobile Advertising è cresciuto del 50%, passando da 38 a 56 milioni di euro, pari al 5% del totale mercato ADV su Internet. Entro 2 anni previsto il sorpasso della quota 10%. Spicca, in crescita dell’81%, il settore dell’automotive, che scalza banche-finanza-assicurazioni. (Read All)Published on 2012/1/24
 KARALIT, l’innovativa azienda che sviluppa e produce software nel settore della fluidodinamica computazionale (CFD), ha presentato il suo rivoluzionario software 3D KARALIT CFD, al AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting che, per la sua cinquantesima edizione, si è tenuto a Nashville negli Stati Uniti, dal 9 al 12 gennaio 2012. (Read All)Published on 2012/1/20
Sulla GUUE, serie C, n. 374 del 22/12/2010 è stato pubblicato l'invito a presentare proposte per azioni nel settore dell'energia, a valere sul programma europeo EIE - Energia intelligente - Europa. (Read All)Published on 2012/1/17
 San Francisco (California) 16 GEN - Due settimane: questa è la finestra aperta dalla fondazione californiana Mind the Bridge per aderire alla sua prima Startup School del 2012 che, dopo il grande successo ottenuto durante le edizioni estive e autunnali, si terrà a San Francisco dal 5 al 23 marzo presso il GYM (la “palestra” imprenditoriale della fondazione) con sede a One Market Plaza. Quella in partenza è la prima di diverse sessioni della Startup School che verranno attivate durante tutto il 2012.
di Serena Orizi Mirandola Comunicazione (Read All)Published on 2012/1/16
 La città di Cagliari ospiterà, dal 13 al 18 maggio, Eurographics 2012, la 33a conferenza annuale dell’Associazione europea di grafica computerizzata, organizzata dal gruppo di Visual computing del CRS4 e dall’Università di Cagliari. (Read All)Published on 2012/1/9
 Una psicologa cagliaritana è tra le firme di un articolo scientifico intitolato “Percorsi riabilitativi assistiti dagli asini: uno studio pilota”, pubblicato negli Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
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