Second PLUS Advanced School
Call for Participation 2nd PLUS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing March 21-24, 2011 – Genova, Italy 2D AND 3D VISUAL RECOGNITION: APPROACHES AND METHODS...
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Centre for Space Human Robotics Launches 13th January 2011
The Italian Institute of Technology, based in Genova, has recently established a network of centers in research institutes throughout Italy.Politecnico di Torino, international leader in material...
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Best Poster Award at BIOS 2011
Congratulations from everyone at the IIT to Francesca Cella Zanacchi (IIT), Zeno Lavagnino (IIT), Emiliano Ronzitti (UniMi), Alberto Diaspro (IIT) who recieved the best poster award at BIOS 2011...
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iCub featured in Science News
We are happy to report that the iCub made the cover of Science News. Here is a short extract from the article... Playing games Another crawler, this time with a child’s face and dexterous,...
View ArticleArtificial Retina
Rai 3 – 7 Febbraio 2011TG3 Leonardo: servizio sulla retina artificiale Servizio di 3’39’’ sul primo prototipo di retina artificiale organica, creata dal dipartimento NBT, CNST (Iit@Polimi) e...
View ArticleLiberato Manna in Top 100 Chemists
Congratulations to Liberato Manna, head of Nanochemistry here at the IIT Central Research Lab in Morego, Genova for making it into the Top 100 Chemists! On February 10, 2011, Thomson Reuters released...
View ArticleFirst Steps of the IIT Compliant Humanoid Robot
Preliminary Dynamic Walking Experiments In order to explore compliant humanoid characteristics, we developed a passive compliant bipedal robot. The robot has a total 17 of DOF (degrees of freedom); 6...
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Science & Science Fiction Movie Season
A science communication event promoted by Prof. Enzo Di Fabrizio, director of the Nanofabrication Facility at IIT, within the European Project Single Molecule Detection.“Openscience: meeting...
View ArticleIIT and Nikon launch research program
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Nikon Instruments launch a joint research programme in the field of super resolution optical microscopy. On the 3rd of March the Istituto Italiano di...
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PhD Program in Computer Science
PhD Program in Computer Science School in Sciences and Technologies for Information and Knowledge (STIC) Dates and registration The course will be held on June, 6-10 2011Registration is free and...
View ArticleFirst highly biocompatible, plastic electrode neural array able to transmit...
Biomaterials At the Neuroscience and Brain Technologies Department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia an important discovery has been made and published in the March issue of Biomaterials, one of...
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Common genetic basis between epilepsy and autism
Press Release - Human Molecular Genetics: Demonstrated a Common Genetic Basis Between Epilepsy and Autism Identified the role of the gene SYN1 in the genetic predisposition to the two pathologies,...
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Celebrating Italy's first 150 years
On the 3rd of May 2011 IIT participated at the event the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian government organized to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity. To read more and see how...
View ArticleBlueberries and Oranges
Fruit replaces Silica as a greener energy in the new solar cells developed at the CBN labs. Italian TV Station RAI program “TG Leonardo” illustrates the research conducted in Lecce by the Center for...
View ArticleMind the Bridge Italy tour: from Startups to Venture Financing
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, in collaboration with the Mind the Bridge Foundation (MtB), leads off the MtB Italy Tour Genova@IIT on June 22nd, 2011, with the opening of the official...
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IIT and Naicons Partnership
PARTNERSHIP SIGNED BETWEEN IIT AND NAICONS PAVING THE WAY TO NEW DRUGS FOR PAIN, INFLAMMATION AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE NAICONS gives access to its collection of over 65,000 microorganisms to the...
View ArticleLiberato Manna wins 2011 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship
We are pleased to announce that Libero Manna, Head of Nanochemistry at the IIT, has won the 2011 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. Professor Manna is the second winner of the Journal of...
View ArticleLaunch of Center for Nano-Science and Technology of IIT@PoliMi
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and the Politecnico di Milano are proud to announce the official launch of the Center for Nano-Science and Technology of IIT@PoliMi (CNST). The Center is part...
View ArticleNew study reveals a novel approach to targetting obesity
Genoa, 04 July 2011 – A new study has revealed a surprising biological response to the intake of fats, which could provide a novel approach to targeting obesity. The study published today in the...
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Best Paper Award at ICORR 2011
Lorenzo Masia (third from right in the photo) received the Best Paper Awardduring the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, IEEE ICORR 2011, in Zurich, on 1st of July. The paper...
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