Engineering, ICT and technologies for energy and transportation
The most important research themes concerning the Cnr Department of Engineering, Ict and technologies (Diitet) deal with production systems and constructions, Ict, energy and transport, aerospace and applied mathematics. In addition, a great attention is devoted to the development of advanced technologies in the fields of information technology and cybersecurity, and the realization of electronic/optoelectronic devices with different application: medical diagnosis, culturale heritage preservation, and monitoring of food quality, water, soil, forest, as well as infrastructures.
The research fields alsoi nclude nanotechnologies and advanced materials for the application in medicine and environmental issues; the development of advanced solutions for the improvement of production systems (“factories of the future”); intelligent and sustainable mobility, traceability of production and distribution network in different market sectors.
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Trapping light, a new paradigm in Photonics
An international study involving Italian researchers of the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr) opens new avenues for trapping and converting light energy. Published on Nature, the research could facilitate developments in quantum technology, high-resolution imaging, and photonic devices
The latest issue of ISTI News
The latest issue of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (CNR-ISTI) News is out: Issue 14 highlights the scientific results of the last six months of the year 2023. Moreover, it contains the Editorial on “2024: Opening up to the new year with excellent results”, a Cover Story on “The Current European Digital Scenario” and the announce of a few prestigious awards presented to ISTI colleagues
Digitalization and Automation boost Energy Materials Research
On January 24-25, the Cnr headquarters in Rome hosted the JP AMPEA-DfE & COST-Action EU-MACE workshop
"Digitalization and Automation boost Energy Materials Research". The event was organized by the Joint Programs 'Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications' and 'Digitalization for Energy' of the European Energy Research Alliance-EERA, in collaboration with COST-Action 222123 'European Materials Acceleration Center for Energy. Experts, researchers, and innovators from diverse parts of the world gathered to share the latest and most innovative technologies revolutionizing materials science
The VISIONE system won the Video Browser Showdown 2024
The VISIONE system, developed by Cnr-Isti, ranked first at the 13th Video Browser Showdown (VBS2024), an international competition in interactive video retrieval. In particular, VISIONE scored as the best interactive video search system in four, out of the seven, tasks carried out in the competition by both expert and novice users, and resulted the overall winner of the competition
The project "SINTETIC" for single item identification for forest production, protection and management, kicks off
The project will develop a new system that will enable customers buying wood products to track them all the way back to the individual trees in the forest from which they were made and its scheme will be able to trace along the full length of the forest value chain, trees, logs, and wooden boards – using five different but integrated tracking systems. The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) takes part in the project with the Institute of BioEconomy (Cnr-Ibe) as the Cnr leading proponent, and the Institute of informatics and telematics (Cnr-Iit)
Collective intelligence can help reduce medical misdiagnoses
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (Istc) oft he National Research Council of Italy, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a collective intelligence approach to increase the accuracy of medical diagnoses. Their work was recently presented in the journal PNAS