2018 Programme
Event #32
Dino Pedreschi
Virtual communities: how Big Data reflects society
Modern society is a large, complex network that in many ways resembles the neural network of the brain. The existence of connections, of links, is responsible for the rapid growth of the web and of the Internet, for the speed of global communication, of the spread of news, information, epidemics and financial crises. Every phenomenon of social complexity has to do with networks and with the collective behavior of communities. The science of networks and Big Data offers new perspectives from which to observe, measure and predict the emergence of inequality and of hubs, the superconnections linking everyone; the diversity and intelligence of communities, the spread of innovations, the polarization of opinions and the loss of collective intelligence. Flushing away any preconception and judgement.
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Dino Pedreschi is a professor of Computer science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneer in Data Science and Big Data, which analyze the digital footprint of human activity to shed light on social complexity. He is director of the KDD LAB-Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research center of the University of Pisa and CNR. The main focus of his studies is the impact that data science has on society: smart cities, mobility, social and financial networks, ethics and privacy, democracy. He is one of the founders of the SoBigData.eu Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem. He has worked at the Center for Complex Network Research in Boston, at the University of Texas in Austin, at CWI in Amsterdam and at UCLA. He heads the PhD in Data Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Event #17
Mario Cucinella
Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization
Event #24Approfonditamente
Beniamino de’ Liguori Carino, Giuseppe Lupo, Alberto Saibene
Adriano Olivetti: building a community
Event #31Approfonditamente
Giulia Alonzo, Marco Belpoliti, Adriana Polveroni, Oliviero Ponte di Pino
Criticism 2.0. Cultural communication in the age of the web
Event #59Children / Kids
Caterina Giannotti, Maria Pia Montagna
Writing is a game if you know the rules!
