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Paolo Lutterotti and Giovanni Pau are the Recipients of the 2008 QUP Award of Distinction |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 09:45 |
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 Paolo Lutterotti, a young visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of UCLA, and Giovanni Pau have been given the "2008 Qualnet University Program award of Distinction" at the “Qualnet World 2008” for the 2008 best innovation in Network Simulation. Lutterotti and Pau’s innovative software technology allows network researchers to develop their algorithms and protocols in simulation and deploy them in a real system with virtually no additional effort.
 Paolo Lutterotti and Giovanni Pau introduced “glue” software layer between the simulator and a vehicular routing protocol. The software layer is the simulative counterpart of a Medium Access Control interface in a real Operating System and masquerades the simulator - the Qualnet Network Simulator produced by Scalable Networks - in a simple network interface that is identical to the very one present in actual equipment. The new layer has been successfully used to implement a new Vehicular Routing Protocol for the Windows environment.
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Top 10 Physics Findings for 2008 |
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Monday, 05 January 2009 09:40 |
 Marking the International Year of Astronomy, the Italian Space Agency ( ASI) fares well in the list of the big physics findings for 2008. ASI participates in five out of the top ten discoveries chosen by editors and science writers at the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. Read more... |
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European Science Foundation Workshop on the Science of Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition: a Follow up |
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:43 |
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 Much has been written about the “paradigm shattering” discovery of mirror neurons by Giacomo Rizzolatti, a Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Parma, in Italy, and a member of ISSNAF. Since the early nineties the theory’s explanatory potential in the field of social cognition has been expanded in collaborative research, among others, with Marco Iacoboni, at the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center of UCLA, and Gerald Edelman’s Neuroscience Program, San Diego. A recent workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) on the growing field of mirror neurons and social cognition paved the ground for a “dedicated” interdisciplinary research network within the EU's 7th Research Framework Program (2007-2013).
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Innovact Awards: Final Call for the European Innovation Hopes |
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Saturday, 27 December 2008 09:44 |
The competition, opened to students, university researchers and European higher education institutions who can offer innovative projects, is organized by Innovact with the support of the European Commission, the EFMD and the International Association of Universities. 6,000 Euros will be on offer for Hopes’ winners.The deadline is January 14, 2009. Read more... |
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Two Italian CDF Physicists, Aldo Menzione and Luciano Ristori, Awarded Panofsky Prize for Establishment and Use of Silicon Detectors in a Hadron Collider |
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 Aldo Menzione and Luciano Ristori are researchers of the Pisa INFN section. Giorgio Bellettini, senior professor of the University of Pisa and an ISSNAF founding member,describes Menzione and Ristori's foundamental contributions.
Un importante premio onora due scienziati italiani in USA
di Giorgio Bellettini
Dipartimento di fisica della Università e sezione del INFN, Pisa
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US Gateway for Cancer Research Funds Franco’s Cancer Vaccine |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:20 |
 Dr. Alessandra Franco, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San Diego (UCSD), recently received a $600,000 grant from Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to curing cancer. The grant is aimed at supporting a clinical trial (Phase 1) for an innovative prostate cancer vaccine, based on T receptors and their capability to recognize sugar molecules in tumor cells. The same vaccine strategy, if proven successful, may open encouraging scenarios for a large-scale cancer treatment of every kind of carcinomas.
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Saturday, 27 December 2008 09:45 |
 Valter is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences and the Hanson Chair of Biogerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). Recently his lab in L.A. came under mediatic and scientific attention with three outstanding discoveries that might cure terrible diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimers, and Diabetes in the future and make us live a little bit longer. Almost 25 years ago, when a teenage Valter first arrived in the U.S. after having left his native Genova, Italy, he had another clear intention: he just wanted to be a rockstar. |
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New Plan for Disease Control and Prevention Under Scrutiny in Italy |
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Saturday, 27 December 2008 09:43 |
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The Plan, introduced by Ferruccio Fazio, the Italian undesecretary for health, meets fierce criticism by, among others, Donato Greco, the former director of the Center for Disease and Prevention. Under scrutiny are the plan's main focus on a diagnostic approach rather than on primary prevention, as well as the plan's top down funding strategy. Ten milion euros out of 24 milion destined to general Prevention, were already awarded to special projects. This choice too caused a few brows to be raised. Read more...
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Funding in Biomedical Research in Italy: changes announced by the undersecretary of health for 2009, Italian University |
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45 Fellowships for the Food & Health Entrepreneurship Academy Program |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:25 |
The program is opened to students, Universities and entrepreneurs working on research in nutrition, foods for health and wellness. The courses will be held at the University of California, February 23 - 27, 2009. Applications are available here and should be submitted before January 9, 2009. |
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Stakeholders Express Varied Reactions to Gelmini's Bill and Guidelines |
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Present and Future of the Italian University
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Paola Potestio, Il Decreto Gelmini: segnali di svolta. Da rafforzare, noiseFromAmeriKa, Jan 4
Riccardo Viale, Investire nella ricerca conviene, Sole 24 Ore, Jan 02
Cnr, quando la ricerca trova, Interview with Luciano Maiani, Italia Oggi, Dec 31
Marzio Bartoloni, Salute, Fazio rilancia la ricerca under 40, Sole 24 Ore, Dec 30
Nicola Tranfaglia, Università, che cosa fare per rilanciarla, Unità, Dec 30
Maurizio Ferraris, Universita' l'ora di ripartire, Sole 24 Ore, Dec 28
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