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...
View ArticleLiberato Manna gets ‘hot article’ for Journal of Materials Chemistry
Liberato Manna's article 'Chemically induced self-assembly of spherical and anisotropic inorganic nanocrystals' has been identified as a ‘hot article’ for Journal of Materials Chemistry It has been...
View ArticleAlberto Diaspro nominated ICO representative for OWLS
Alberto Diaspro has been nominated (yesterday) ICO (International Commission of Optics) representative as OWLS (Optics WIthin Life Sciences) President.
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and CA-RoboCom protagonists in Superquark
On 4 August the RAI 1 prime time science communication program Superquark, anchored by Piero Angela, dedicated a feature to humanoid robot iCub and the international consortium CA-RoboCom, of which...
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On Russian TV screen the scientific research of IIT – first part
On 9th August Vesti TV, a Russian national news broadcasting channel, reported about iCub, showing the cognitive abilities of the humanoid robot developed in the IIT Department of Robotics, Brain and...
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Pronto Elisir opened the show with the future of medicine made in IIT
Robotics limbs, rehabilitation, artificial retina and brain-machine interface are some of the research projects that IIT is conducting for the future of medicine. Last night, 4th September, and on 10th...
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On ElMundo.es the nano research experience in IIT speaks Spanish
IIT research staff is very international, people come from over 30 countries of the world. They speak about science in English, but sometimes they converse in their own native language. Thus, Manuel...
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CNST IIT@PoliMI awarded with Best Poster award at ECME2011
A joint study carried out by researchers of CNST IIT@PoliMi and Politecnico di Milano, and followed by Guglielmo Lanzani, coordinator of the IIT center in Milan, has been awarded as the best Poster at...
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Russian TV shows the scientific research of IIT – second part
On 16th August Vesti TV, a Russian national news broadcasting channel, reported about the human-machine interface researches that are developed in the IIT Neuroscience and Brain Technologies...
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IIT nanochemistry research paper among the first of the 25 hottest articles...
IIT nanochemistry research paper among the first of the 25 hottest articles of Physics Reports The review paper written by the IIT researchers Roman Krahne, Albert Figuerola, Chandramohan George,...
View ArticleThinking green at IIT: an interview with Guglielmo Lanzani about plastic...
On 15th of September, Guglielmo Lanzani, the Coordinator of Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) of IIT@Polimi, participated to the event “Zero Emission Rome 2011”, an exhibition dedicated to...
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iCub and Cognitive Humanoid Lab of RBCS department in San Francisco for IROS2011
Again this year, IIT robotic research participates in San Francisco at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), one of the most important international scientific events...
View ArticleIIT dalla parte dei giovani: lezioni di scienza con Oilproject.org
Comunicato stampa Scuola d'Attualità: lezioni online per spiegare in diretta scienza e tecnologia Oltre a eventi di politica ed economia, Oilproject organizza con l'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia una...
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The Nanochemistry Department at IIT published in Nature Materials a work on...
Fabricating new materials by self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks is one of the goals of modern materials science, as recently outlined by researchers from the Nanochemistry Department at IIT...
View ArticleOilproject - Lunedì 17 ottobre, lezione di Alberto Diaspro
All’interno della “Scuola di Attualità” di Oilproject (www.oilproject.org), la più grande scuola online in Italia (9000 studenti)fondata nel 2004 da un gruppo di ragazzi, l’Istituto Italiano di...
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Enzo Di Fabrizio team published on Nature Photonics with innovative single...
How you can study single molecules if they are very few in liquid solutions such as blood or water? IIT Nanostructure Department researchers started by building a super-hydrophobic surface imitating...
View ArticleOilproject.org – Wednesday, November 2nd, lesson of Daniele Piomelli
Within the “Scuola di Attualità” program of Oilproject (www.oilproject.org), IIT is protagonist with a series of online interactive video-lessons dedicated to applied and fundamental science. Adressed...
View ArticleOilproject.org – Monday, November 7th, lesson of Fabio Benfenati
Within the “Scuola di Attualità” program of Oilproject (www.oilproject.org), IIT is protagonist with a series of online interactive video-lessons dedicated to applied and fundamental science. Adressed...
View ArticleIIT Nanochemistry self-assembling nanocrystals on Nature Materials cover
The study carried out by the Nanochemistry research group led by Liberato Manna, was featured on the cover of the November issue of Nature Materials. The study, entitled "Hierarchical self-assembly of...
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HyQ, quadruped robot of the ADVR department, on IEEE Spectrum
The journalist Enrico Guizzo interviewed Claudio Semini, post-doc researcher at the IIT Advanced Robotics (ADVR) department, about the hydraulical quadruped robot HyQ. Semini is developing the robot...
View ArticleOilproject.org – Wednesday, November 23rd, lesson of Vittorio Murino
Within the “Scuola di Attualità” program of Oilproject (www.oilproject.org), tonight, Wednesday, November 23rd, the last interactive video-lesson by IIT will be held by Vittorio Murino, Director of IIT...
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On Nature Photonics cover: the IIT Nanostructures innovative Single Molecule...
The study, carried out by the Nanostructures research group led by Enzo Di Fabrizio, was featured on the cover of the November issue of Nature Photonics. The study, that describes the invention of a...
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London Science Museum: iCub meets people at Robotville
During the four day event "Robotville", starting on 1st December at the Science Museum in London, people will meet the humanoid robot iCub and some of its authors: Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale and...
View ArticleDoctoral school Humanoid & Life Technologies XXVII Cycle
Please find below the admission tables in PDF format for the Doctoral Courses "Neuroscience", "Drug Discovery", "Robotics" and “Nanosciences” Doctoral School on “Humanoid and Life Technologies” XXVII...
View ArticleTop Tech visits the Center for Nano Science and Technology of IIT@PoliMi
The Center for Nano Science and Technology of IIT@Polimi is one of the research centers of the multidisciplinary national network of IIT; the conducted research activity regards two technological...
View ArticleThe new drug delivery system of NEST Laboratory and the Center for...
The study conducted by a group of researchers of the NEST Laboratory and the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation of IIT@Nest in Pisa was awarded of the prestigious frontispiece of the international...
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