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19 July 2016

Ernesto Damiani interviewed by the social financial blogger Salvatore Barbato

Ernesto Damiani has been interviewed on TOREADOR by the social financial blogger Salvatore Barbato, in the context of the 24th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems held in  Ugento, Italy, from the 19th to the 22nd June, 2016. The video is available in Italian only.

13 July 2016

I-Conn Official Presentation

The I-Conn platform has been officialy presented in Segno (TN). At the meeting were present the President of the Trento Province, Ugo Rossi, mayors of the province municipality, Prof. Ernesto Damiani and the team that produced and implemented the platforms. The video of the official presentation are available here and a demo of the use and […]

10 July 2016

Ernesto Damiani received the Stephen S. Yau Services Computing Award

The Stephen S. Yau Services Computing Award aims to honor excellent researchers for outstanding contributions to the field of services computing. The award is named after Dr. Stephen S. Yau, a world-renowned researcher, educator, and community leader who has made many significant contributions to distributed and services computing. The 3rd edition of the Award has […]

16 May 2016

UAE Cyber Security Day

25 May 2016 https://uaecybersecurityday.splashthat.com/ The Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at New York Univerity Abu Dhabi continues to develop high quality research that addresses challenges relevant to the UAE and region.  The UAE has one of the most advanced Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructures in the region, as well as a high number of […]

05 May 2016

Best Paper Award: INFORSID 2013

Gabriele Gianini has been awarded with the best paper award at the INFORSID 2013 with the paper titled: Tag similarity in folksonomies written in collaboration with H. Mousselly-Sergieh, E. Egyed-Zsigmond, M. Döller, H. Kosch, and J.M.Pinon.    

07 April 2016

Nasce IRIXYS, il centro internazionale di ricerca in informatica

Cerimonia ufficiale, all’Università di Passau, per l’inaugurazione dell’IRIXIS, il Centro Internazionale di Ricerca e Innovazione in Sistemi Digitali Intelligenti. Nato dalla partnership di ricerca in Informatica tra l’Università di Passau, l’Institut National de Sciences Appliquées (INSA) di Lione e l’Università degli Studi di Milano, l’IRIXYS è un “laboratorio virtuale” che permetterà a ricercatori e dottorandi […]

17 March 2016

UAE Security Forum 2016: Bridging the Cybersecurity Talent Gap

Ernesto Damiani represented SESAR Lab and EBTIC at the UAE Security Forum 2016. More than a hundred leaders from across government, academia, and the private sector gathered for the inaugural UAE Security Forum on February 21 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. The forum brought focus to a key topic of global and national security: cybersecurity […]

26 December 2015

Keynote at ENASE 2016

Prof. Ernesto Damiani gave a keynote at the 11th Int. Conf. on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE2016) titled “TOWARDS MODEL-DRIVEN BIG-DATA-AS-A-SERVICE”. Much work has been done to show that model-driven development—following the classic Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach—is also advantageous in the context of data intensive applications, which have become the norm in key business […]

22 November 2015

Keynote at AICCSA 2015

Ernesto Damiani gave a keynote on “Threats to Big Data“at the 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2015) in Marrakech (Morocco).

November 2015

Pay with a Group Selfie

The SESAR Lab, in collaboration with the team in EBTIC – Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates leaded by Ernesto Damiani, will develop a software toolkit to enable the secure purchase of goods by taking a photo with a simple mobile phone. The procedure only requires both purchaser and merchant to carry a simple […]

09 September 2015

Appointment of Dr. Ernesto Damiani as Director of Information Security Centre

Khalifa University is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Ernesto Damiani as the Director of the Khalifa University Information Security Centre recently established under the Senior Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies.  In this role, Prof. Ernesto Damiani will provide leadership and strategic direction for this newly established university-level center that is aligned […]

04 June 2015

Ernesto Damiani at EDCH UG meeting

Discussing Big Data applications with Asian and ME telco providers at the Emirates Data Clearing House User Group meeting.

04 May 2015

Keynote at the 11th FT Summit & Meetings – Middle East

Ernesto Damiani has been invited to give a keynote at the 11th Financial Technology Summit & Meetings – Middle East in Dubai, the 29th of April 2015. The Financial Technology Summit & Meetings, now in it’s 11th edition, is the foremost exclusive, by-invitation only summit dedicated to the CIOs & CxOs of the Banking & […]

29 April 2015

Hadoop User Group Italy

The Computer Science Department, in collaboration with the SESAR Lab (Prof. Ernesto Damiani) and Engineering Ingegneria Italiana, will host the meeting of the dell’Hadoop User Group Italy, in the Sala Lauree Tuesday 19 May 2015, from 17.45 to 19.30. The meeting will be the opportunity to meet Marcel Kornacker (http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/01/meet-the-engineer-marcel-kornacker/), lead developer of Impala. Cloudera […]

27 April 2015

EBTIC Big Data Initiative Centro di Ricerca in Cyber Security in Abu Dhabi

Ernesto Damiani, sviluppando le relazioni tra il laboratorio SESAR (http.//sesar.di.unimi.it) del Dipartimento di Informatica e British Telecom Research ha assunto la direzione della Big Data Initiative presso il Centro di Innovazione Etisalat – British Telecom (EBTIC), e del nuovo Centro di Ricerca in Cyber-Security presso la Khalifa University, ad Abu Dhabi. Il programma di ricerca del […]

April 2015

Ernesto Damiani invited as Secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee on Services

IEEE Technical Committee on Services Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underlying breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. This scope of […]

April 2015

Ernesto Damiani keynote at SBSI 2014

Ernesto Damiani has been invited to give a keynote at the X Simposio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI) on “Digital Ecosystems in a World of Big Data“. The talk first introduced the basic techniques for privacy-aware capture and analysis of large amounts of behavioral data, pointing how how these techniques foster efficiency and intelligent […]

13 November 2014

2010 GIPR Award Best Ph.D. Thesis: Dr. Marco Anisetti

The Italian Group of Italian Researcher in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR) is a non-profit association of researchers, belonging to academic and research institutions as well as to industries, whose scientific interest is concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. GIRPR was founded as a follow-up of GRAF (Group for Automatic […]

November 2014

Working Capital tour Padova 2010: Eugenio Tacchini

Eugenio Tacchini, with the project MentoRex, has been awarded with a Working Capital scholarship of 20.000 € to allow them to accomplish his research project. The award has been assigned in Padova (Italy) the 13th of October, 2010. The MentoRex project has the goal of developing an online content recommendation system based on the concept […]

November 2014

Ernesto Damiani awarded with the IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2011)

IFIP, the leading multinational, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences (www.ifip.org), awarded Prof. Ernesto Damiani with the Outstanding Service Award.