Awards
Important recognition given to our researchers for their work in their field of expertise.
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September 27, 2024Trentino per la Ricerca: eight innovation awards to young FBK researchersThe award to enhance the research and innovation work of young people in the Trentino region -
September 12, 2024Gian Maria Campedelli honored with the 2024 Early Career AwardFBK researcher awarded by the European Society of Criminology for his groundbreaking work in computational criminology -
September 9, 2024SWITCH: the innovative project for the production of green hydrogen receives award from IEAThe SWITCH European project, coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, has won the Hydrogen TCP Award of Excellence 2024, the prestigious prize from the International Energy Agency, the supranational intergovernmental organization leading the global dialogue on energy, for its important contribution toward a clean hydrogen economy and a more sustainable future. -
July 31, 2024Narges Takhtkeshha wins first place prize at IGARSS Geopitch in AthensFBK Ph.D. student has won the 2024 IEEE IGARSS competition of innovative ideas for a sustainable future through geoscience and remote sensing. -
June 28, 2024EAMT Best Thesis Award 2023 assigned to Marco GaidoHighlight from the EAMT 2024 Conference in Sheffield: Marco’s Thesis receives the 2023 Anthony C Clarke Award for the Best Thesis of the European Association for Machine Translation. -
February 2, 2024Elena Donini selected visiting scientist by ESA ARCHIVAL RESEARCH VISITOR PROGRAMMEThe FBK researcher has been selected by an independent committee and will be spending a period at ESA in spring-summer 2024. She will develop an advanced method to efficiently select significant radargrams in large archives. The research will be applied to RIME/JUICE and SRS/EnVision subsurface radar space missions in which FBK is involved -
January 12, 2024Lorenzo Incoronato wins award for best paper on public policiesThe young researcher has won the second edition of the award given by FBK-IRVAPP. He will present his work in Venice on Jan. 23 before participants of the International School on Impact Evaluation -
November 23, 2023Elena Crespi wins the 2023 Young Scientist award in the hydrogen sectorThe award was given by Hydrogen Europe Research, an international organization comprising 150 Universities and Research Centers from 29 countries. -
November 8, 2023Leonardo Lamanna wins an AIxIA 2023 awardLeonardo Lamanna is the 2023 winner of the "Marco Cadoli" neo-doctoral research award. -
November 3, 2023The SWITCH project wins the ENERGY GLOBE Award 2023 for ItalyThe award was assigned by the Austria Trade Consul, Christoph Plank -
September 14, 2023Smart Altitude European project enters the final stage of Regiostars 2023The jury has carefully evaluated the record number of applications – 228 in total – and selected 30 finalists. Among them, Smart Altitude, a European Interreg Alpine Space project partnered by FBK Center for Sustainable Energy, that aims at implementing new tools to improve the use of energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Alpine ski areas. -
September 5, 2023Andrea Micheli wins ERC Starting grant for frontier research in AIThe news of the grant from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe's leading body that subsidizes excellent frontier research, came following a highly competitive selection -
August 21, 2023Tell me how you play and i’ll tell you who you areBest Paper Award for Antonio Bucchiarone at the 5th international conference on human-computer interactions in games, as part of the HCII 2023 held in Copenhagen on July 23-28 -
August 20, 2023FBK SUSTAINABLE ENERGY among the winners of THE EUREGIO YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD 2023Third place for Alessandro Sartori (a UNITN PhD Student @ FBK Sustainable Energy Center) at the Tyrol Days of the European Forum Alpbach for his paper "Multi-objective optimization of an energy community: an integrated and dynamic approach for full decarbonisation in the European Alps". -
February 16, 2023Oliviero Stock is honorary member of AIXIAThe Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence bestowed the title of Honorary Member on senior fellow FBK, a pioneer in AI research. -
January 27, 2023The FBK-Irvapp best paper in Public Policy Evaluation award 2023 goes to Francesco FilippucciThe jury selected the article that evaluates the French Garanzia Giovani-like program and points out the effectiveness of its measures. -
January 24, 2023Luigi Crema is the new President of Hydrogen Europe ResearchThe appointment of 24 January 2023 concerns the most important European research organization in the field of hydrogen. -
December 13, 2022Francesco Weikmann wins a prize promoted by the United Nations and the European CommissionThe software developed, which enables the involvement of citizens to improve data collection on urban cycling, came in second at the Open Source Software for Sustainable Development Goals – Sustainable Cities & Communities (OSS4SDG) competition organized by the EU and the UN -
November 10, 2022Equality and inclusion in translation techniquesLuisa Bentivogli, FBK received an Amazon Research Award -
October 27, 2022Michele Bolognese wins the 2022 Young Scientist award in the hydrogen sectorThe award was conferred by Hydrogen Europe Research, an international organization comprising 121 Universities and Research Centers from 27 countries. -
July 6, 2022An international recognition for semantic video understandingThe FBK TeV Unit made a significant contribution to the team that came in first in the EPIC-KITCHENS competition on egocentric vision. -
June 14, 2022Marco Gaido received the Best Student Paper Award at IWSLT 2022His work, titled "Who Are We Talking About? Handling Person Names in Speech Translation", adds up to the strong record of recent publications of the Machine Translation Unit in the area of Speech Translation. -
June 9, 2022Complexity Article of the Year 2021 for an FBK paper on Adaptive Urban Policy-Making"Complex Urban Systems: Challenges and Integrated Solutions for the Sustainability and Resilience of Cities" is the title of the awarded paper, published in Complexity - special issue "The Complexity of Mobility and Human Dynamics in Cities", and coauthored by Riccardo Gallotti, leader of the Complex Human Behaviour Lab @ FBK Digital Society Center. -
May 24, 2022Digital Innovation in Healthcare Award to TREC CardiologiaDuring the Osservatorio Sanità Digitale event at the Politecnico di Milano, the TreC cardiologia project ranked first in terms of "audience" jury preferences and second in the "Hospital-Local communitiesIntegration Services and Telemedicine" category. -
February 10, 2022Giulia Cencetti appointed “Emerging Researcher” by the Complex System SocietyWe asked her to give us an overview of her work and a reflection on the occasion of the International Day for Women and Girls in Science. -
December 1, 2021Elia Scattolo is the winner of the best student award at the international conference ECSA-8The student award consists of 500 CHF. It is for a student who has joined the online student competition of the 8th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications held on 1–15 Nov 2021. -
December 1, 2021FBK projects awarded by the VRT Foundation for relevance and impactThe calls of the Foundation for the Valorization of Trentino Research were launched on March 19, 2020 with the aim of countering the pandemic by supporting research aimed at social impacts -
November 8, 2021Emerging scientific award to FBK researcher Giulia CencettiFriday, October 29, 2021, at the annual Conference on Complex Systems, Giulia Cencetti was awarded the "Emerging Scientific Award" by the Complex System Society together with Dr. Iacopo Iacopini (Central European University) and Dr. Yuanzhao Zhang (Santa Fe Institute). -
October 15, 2021Mattia Antonino Di Gangi’s excellence path in machine translation awardedThe Best Thesis 2020 award of the EAMT European association went to the former doctoral student of the machine translation team at Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
October 4, 2021MANLIO DE DOMENICO won the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics – 2020 editionThe Award of the German Physical Society annually recognizes outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems
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July 26, 2021Alessandro Cimatti and Roberto Sebastiani win the Computer-Aided Verification Award 2021The two researchers, from FBK and the University of Trento respectively, received the prize awarded by CAV 2021, the most important international conference on the verification of correctness of hardware and software systems and one of the most prestigious in computer science. -
June 28, 2021The Seal of St. Wenceslas to Stefano MerlerOn Saturday, June 26, Saint Vigilius's day, the mayor of Trento Franco Ianeselli awarded the seal of San Wenceslas, the highest honor of the city, to Stefano Merler. -
March 9, 2021The Human Resources Strategy for ResearchersFBK implements the principles of the European Charter for Researchers. The outcome of the evaluation by the European Commission was positive and FBK was awarded again the HR Excellence in Research certificate -
February 22, 2021THE “CITY OF ELECTRONS” PROJECT INCLUDED AMONG ANPAL SERVIZI’S SCHOOL-TO-WORK PROGRAM GOOD PRACTICES"The city of electrons" has become part of the catalog "La scuola, che impresa" among the 55 best school-to-work program projects -
January 7, 2021Gender bias and human language technologySteps forward to resolving "gender bias" in machine translation systems -
December 1, 2020Popularize Artificial Intelligence – Spread Your Results!Williams Rizzi received a special mention at the "Pietro Torasso" Award - PhD student edition. With a video, he illustrates the research he is conducting as part of his PhD project in an way that can be easily understood by a non-specialist audience. -
November 16, 2020PapyGame: teaching programming turns into a gameThe platform, to which Fondazione Bruno Kessler's researchers contributed, received the award for best software at the MODELS 2020 International Conference
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October 19, 2020TRENTINOSALUTE4.0 wins the “Patient’s Digital Health Award 2020” – “COVID-19 solutions section” – with the TREC PEDIATRIA appDeveloped by TrentinoSalute4.0, the App enables families and pediatricians to preserve provider-patient relations even if remotely
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September 25, 2020THE “CHE ARIA” PROJECT AT THE “GIOVANI RICERCATORI CERCANSI” (YOUNG RESEARCHERS NEEDED) CONTEST: EXCELLENT RANKING FOR THE GALILEI HIGH SCHOOLThree students from the Trento-based high school for science have ranked second in the "basic research" category with a project based on a school-to-work experience at FBK -
August 26, 2020Tessa si aggiudica il premio sostenibilità della Banca Monte dei Paschi di SienaLa startup di FBK specializzata in sensoristica per l'agricoltura sta seguendo il programma Trentino Startup Valley -
July 10, 2020New Amazon award for FBK in the field of machine learningFor the second consecutive year, researchers from Fondazione Bruno Kessler win the coveted Amazon prize with research dedicated to "action recognition" -
March 18, 2020FBK AWARDED AT IMAGE SENSORS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2020The title of Best Academic Research Team at ISEU 2020 awarded to the IRIS - Integrated Radiation & Image Sensors unit of the Materials and Microsystems Center of FBK -
December 4, 2019Gianni Lazzari Award – the third edition finalThe winner of the "Energy and environment" category is the startup INDIV with FBK as scientific partner. The Agrishelter emergency housing modules receive the recognition for "Quality of life and interior environments". Special mention for design objects made of wood by Vaia Wood. -
November 16, 2019CLIMB vince il Premio Mobilità 2019Il progetto della Fondazione Bruno Kessler che incentiva la mobilità autonoma e sostenibile dei bambini si è classificato al primo posto nella categoria "sensibilizzazione, formazione e informazione"
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October 26, 2019Climathon 2019 a Rovereto: l’innovazione per l’ambienteSi è chiuso oggi l’hackathon promosso da Climate-KIC e ospitato da Progetto Manifattura con la premiazione del team vincitore -
October 24, 2019Roberto Battiston in the firmament of AstronauticsThe FBK board member was awarded the Hall of Fame Award by the International Astronautics Federation for contributing to the progress of space science and technology and to the impacts of space for humanity
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October 23, 2019The FBK school-to-work model awarded at SMAU 2019The award, which sees the 'SenSAT' project as a virtuous example of innovation in education was given in Milan yesterday -
September 12, 2019Amazon gives FBK the AWS Machine Learning Research AwardAn advanced AI-based solution studied by Fondazione Bruno Kessler has received the award given by Amazon
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June 6, 2019FBK CREATE-NET awarded at INFOCOM 2019The work on connected vehicles of the FBK CREATE-NET WiN Unit wins the Best Demo Award at the International Conference on Computer Communication
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May 16, 2019Call Paolo Prodi Award 2019The winner will be invited to deliver a public lecture in Trento during the 'Giornata in ricordo di Paolo Prodi'
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May 14, 2019AI Open Innovation Lab: students bring artificial intelligence to pharmaciesThe 2019 edition of the laboratory organized by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Istituto Artigianelli and the University of Trento has wrapped up. Prizes were awarded to students who have created an artificial intelligence solution for the pharmaceutical industry -
March 29, 2019FBK paper awarded with honorable mention at the International Conference on Human-Computer InteractionThe study on the use of technology in the Piedibus Smart project by the FBK researchers will be awarded in May at the CHI (Computer Human Interaction) 2019 international conference -
March 28, 2019Claudio Ferlan wins a grant at Boston CollegeThe FBK-ISIG researcher was selected with a writing project that investigates the relationship between religion and food
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March 27, 2019FBK Researcher in the Olympus of Young Researchers in PhysicsManlio De Domenico wins the prestigious Young Researchers in Statistical Physics Award (IUPAP-C3, 2017) for the many interdisciplinary applications of his research in Statistical Physics. Complexity feels at home now among physicists
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March 13, 2019FBK-TrentinoSalute4.0 researchers winners of “Milan Critical Care Unit Datathon” 2019From 1st to 3rd February, the first Italian datathon was held at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, organised by the European Society of Intensive Medicine (ESICM). The competition was on challenges related to the processing of Electronic Health Records of patients from Intensive Care Units (ICU), published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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February 26, 2019FBK celebrates its international young talentPovo hosted the PhD Day, the annual meeting of Fondazione Bruno Kessler's doctoral students community -
October 25, 2018CORPORATE PRIZE TO THE “BAMBINI A PIEDI SICURI – KIDS GO GREEN” PROJECTThe educational and interactive game, designed in cooperation with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, aims to encourage children to keep sustainability in mind when deciding how to go to school
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October 24, 2018CREEP WINS THE “BEST WORKSHOP PRESENTATION” AWARD AT THE MEETING OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGYThe prize for the best presentation was awarded to the project on the prevention of the effects of cyberbullying, promoted and funded by EIT Digital and coordinated by FBK / TrentinoSalute4.0
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October 18, 2018Esploratori della Fotonica | Photonics ExplorersThe project designed to bring students closer to the scientific world of light has been completed -
October 15, 2018FBK is “HR Excellence in Research”From the European Commission the certification for excellence in human resources services -
October 9, 20183D Reconstruction: the Algorithm of 3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) Unit AwardedThe Best Paper Award went to the work co-authored by Fabio Remondino (FBK-3DOM) presented at the ECCV 2018's International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose in Munich -
July 16, 2018Alessandro Cimatti wins the “CAV 2018” international awardThe prestigious award concerned studies for the realization of the so-called Bounded Model Checking, an algorithm used in the electronic circuit and software design systems -
July 4, 2018CREATE-NET awarded at the Digital360 AwardsCREATE-NET has been recognized by Digital360 among the most relevant research centers in the promotion of digital innovation in Italy
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May 31, 2018Further recognition for CLIMBThe project participated in the "Sustainable PA Award, 100 projects to achieve the objectives of Agenda 2030", promoted by Forum Pubbilca Amministrazione in collaboration with ASviS -
May 23, 2018AIIC Award to FBK researcher Simona AnzivinoA biomedical clinical engineer, she won the award for the best work on the evaluation of health technologies at the 18th national conference of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineering
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April 13, 2018The most influential paper of the past 10 years award of the ICST 2018 has been awarded to Paolo TonellaTen years after the publication of the Most Influential Paper Award conferred by ICST 2018. -
April 9, 2018Oliviero Stock, pioneer of artificial intelligence, awarded the Aquila di San VenceslaoThe Autonomous Province of Trento awarded the highest honor in Trentino, the Eagle of St. Wenceslaus, to Professor Oliviero Stock, pioneer of Artificial Intelligence -
December 12, 2017FBK-Create-Net awarded at the IEEE CNSM 2017 conferenceThe FUN - Future Networks Research Unit paper won the Best Student Paper at the prestigiousInternational Conference on Network and Service Management organized by the IEEE association.
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November 17, 2017Here is the “DNA of Soccer”Marco De Nadai, Ph.D. student with the FBK Mobs Unit, is part of the winning teams of the first hackathon oon Italian soccer in the "Match Analysis" category. The algorithm developed by the researchers makes it possible to represent a dangerous game action through a simple sequence of letters, similar to those characterizing the human genome -
October 16, 2017A “new” Quantum Mechanics?A team that involves FBK researchers has tested in an experiment a modified version of the theory, with promising results. The research paper received a special mention from "Physical Review Letters", the journal that published it
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October 11, 2017A Day to Remember Paolo ProdiFBK is hosting an event dedicated to the memory of the intellectual who founded ISIG. Among the guests are Romano Prodi and Massimo Cacciari
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September 5, 2017Paolo Prodi Award 2017 call for nominationsAn award to honor the memory of the founder of the Italian-German Historical Institute
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July 25, 2017Multitemp 2017: Yady Tatiana Solano Correa wins the Best Student Oral Presentation AwardThe RSDE-FBK's PhD student awarded during the last IEEE International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Images (MultiTemp 2017).
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July 21, 2017FBK’s Center for Materials and Microsystems as Innovation Partner for SMESThe Center for Materials and Microsystems (CMM) of Fondazione Bruno Kessler has been accredited as KETs Technology Center for SMEs. Nationwide, there are only eight accredited centers besides FBK's CMM.
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July 2, 2017e-mrs: best poster of symposium to Francesca MarchettiThe Ph.D. in Physics at FBK 's Center for Materials and Microsystems was awarded the Best Poster of Symposium prize during E-MRS Spring Meeting 2017 and Exhibit.
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June 19, 2017FBK AMBASSADOR OF INNOVATION AT CAGLIARI ‘S G7 ON TRANSPORTATION WITH THE “CLIMB” PROJECT ON CHILDREN’S INDIPENDENT MOBILITYIt is one of the seven good practices, selected by a scientific committee of more than 400, that will be representing Italy in Cagliari, during the "Transportation G7" -
June 8, 2017EAMT Best Thesis Award 2016 assigned to José Camargo de Souza!The prize is awarded annually by the European Association for Machine Translation (MT) for the best thesis on a topic related to MT and, for the 1st time, it has been won by a student from our labs. -
June 1, 2017Double recognition for the Software Engineering Unit at the Buenos Aires International Conference on Program Comprehension.Best Paper Award and ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award. The FBK Software Engineering Unit led by Paolo Tonella came back with two prestigious awards from Buenos Aires, where they participated in the twenty-fifth International Conference on Program Comprehension on May 22 and 23. -
April 27, 2017Alessandro Cimatti wins ETAPS “Test of Time Award”In an ever-changing and fast-moving field like software is, not everybody gets to make an internationally ground-breaking and far-reaching scientific work that will influence the industry for years to come. Alessandro Cimatti, with Fondazione Bruno Kessler's ICT Center, has succeeded: he received the "Test of Time Award" from ETAPS in Uppsala, Sweden.
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April 11, 2017Breuckmann Award – The winner is Erica NocerinoHer project explores the issue of 3D acquisition and modeling of small museum objects.
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March 31, 2017A Researcher from Trentino awarded at the most important world conference on voice recognitionThe reward of $ 1,500 was awarded to Mirco Ravanelli, first author of the paper by FBK and University of Montreal (Canada). -
March 10, 2017Learning to climbThe winner of the 2017 ICT Days PhD Competion (whose prizes are offered by Vodafone Italia and Trentino Sviluppo), tells us about her intense mobility experience in Sheffield, UK. -
March 6, 2017FBK ranks 1st in an international competition on Fintech, Big Data and sentiment analysis.A joint team between FBK and Fortia Financial Solutions recently took part at the SemEval 2017 challenge on predicting sentiment from financial news headlines.
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February 20, 2017FBK International PHD ProgramFondazione Bruno Kessler is presenting the project involving more than 100 students from around the world, in collaboration with Italian and international universities. -
January 4, 2017Google Prize to Carlo Strapparava: the only Italian researcher that won the contestCarlo Strapparava from Trento based FBK has created a software system that can tell emotions from a text. He is the only Italian researcher that has won the international contest organized early this year.
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October 31, 2016FBK’s “2Aspire” team wins the D2T Start Cup PrizeMajor achievement for the "2Aspire" team of FBK researchers Andrea Avancini and Mariano Ceccato: theirs is the 2016 Innovation Enterprise D2T Start Cup Award.
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October 28, 2016Silver Medal for Giovanni Moretti at IBM Watson Services ChallengeGiovanni Moretti, Software Developer of the Digital Humanities unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, won the second place at the IBM Watson Services Challenge.
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October 27, 20162016 ASPEN award: the winner is a study on the Ebola virus in which FBK participatedThe 2016 Aspen Prize for cooperation and scientific research between Italy and the United States was awarded this year to a study on the Ebola virus in which Fondazione Bruno Kessler of Trento has participated.
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October 26, 2016The Leggimontagna 2016 Prize awarded to Marco MondiniLeggimontagna 2016 assigned the 3rd place to "Andare per i luoghi della Grande Guerra" by Marco Mondini (Il Mulino).
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October 15, 2016ICSOC2016 Best demo Award goes to FBK researchersA great recognition for the FBK-DAS research unit, headed by Annapaola Marconi, that in October 2016 won both the "Best Demo Award" at the 14th International conference on service oriented computing, held in Banff (Alberta - CA).
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September 18, 2016Best Paper Award @ RNDM 2016Marco Savi, postdoc researcher of the Future Networks (FuN) research unit at FBK CREATE-NET, has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 8th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), held in Halmstad, Sweden, from 13th to 15th September 2016.
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September 1, 2016Andrea Micheli was awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of artificial intelligenceHis name is Andrea Micheli; he was born in 1987 and has just won the EurAI European Award for the best PhD thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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August 10, 2016ASE distinguished paper awardThe 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering was held successfully at the Singapore Management University, Singapore from September 3-7, 2016.
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June 10, 2016ICWE distinguished paper awardThe paper: Andrea Stocco, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca and Paolo Tonella, "Clustering-Aided Page Object Generation for Web Testing" has been awarded the Distinguished Paper Award of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), 2016.
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April 4, 2016FBK was awarded one of the “Digital Humanities” prizes for humanities computingThe “PAGANS” software came in first in the “Best use of DH for leisure” category, the best use of Digital Humanities for entertainment.
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January 4, 2016The Marr Prize goes to FBKThe Marr prize, awarded every two years to the best scientific article on artificial vision, was won in the last edition by Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler for a study conducted in collaboration with Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University.