Only two italian women in the list of 40 women leaders in artificial intelligence (link here for the IBM list ) and they are two Alumnae of Politecnico di Milano: Donatella Sciuto, professor of Computer Engineering and senior professor of the Rector of Research and Diversity and Elisabetta Burei , Alumna in Electronic Engineering and Senior manager demand & project of CheBanca!.
“This year's leaders - says IBM - prove how advances in natural language processing, automation and reliable AI can be used help organizations better predict results, automate processes and make them more efficient”.
Sciuto has used AI to help more than 45,000 students of Politecnico to navigate through the vast amount of information available to provide a better campus experience. The project is called “ Concierge ” and has managed to answer more than 300,000 questions formulated in natural language thanks to a always available virtual assistant.
Burei has used artificial intelligence to create "Edo" , a virtual assistant designed to automate customer services and at the same time optimize time of company staff. Thanks to this technology, CheBanca! managed to solve 60% of customer care requests without human intervention, reducing customer service interactions via operator by 30%.
Thanks to artificial intelligence, these projects have contributed to the digital transformation of national and international companies , creating more sustainable and inclusive work environments, able to "mitigate prejudices and deliver explainable results" , <a href="https://www.ibm.com/easytools/runtime/hspx/prod/public/X0027/PortalX/page/pageTemplate?s=78c374df5c884363b46454a5ffefb5d9&c=05dd3b6455834136ad79"self_be_self"839_self"839413639= says Ritika Gunnar, Vice President, Expert Labs, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software.
During the STEM month, one of the most discussed topics is often that of gender balance: for this reason we have collected the stories of 67 engineering Alumnae of our community in the book “ALUMNAE, Engineering and technologies” . The goal of the book? To collect a number of positive examples for the "STEM" girls of today and tomorrow.
Thousands of students have worked in the modeling laboratory in the past. The next thousands will write new stories with one of the most advanced prototypes lab in the world as their backdrop.
The new LaborA will host students and researchers in over 700 m2 of cutting-edge machinery, a nerve center for innovation where the mix of physical and virtual modeling takes center stage . We visited it with Cecilia Maria Bolognesi , Professor of Representation and Modeling of the Department of Architecture, Construction Engineering and Built Environment (ABC).
The new lab is a focal point of the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering (AIUC): it hosts 100 workstations dedicated to master's students; a space for processing with fretworks, band saws and small carpentry machinery, alongside processing machines for cutting heavier wood; a section of the lab is reserved for metal cutting machines, including calendering, bending machines and saws; there is a space dedicated to numerically controlled cutting (there are also several CNCs) and one, affectionately called "Nursery", which hosts 10 wire 3D printers , one of which blends of carbon powders that it can also accommodate other additives for high precision mechanical parts, one for resins and one for clay.
LaborA
Woodworks
Nursery
Some machines are manageable and programmable even remotely. As well as these 'hands on' machinery this laboratory also hosts two new tools, spearheads of digital modeling: the Virtual Theater and the Holographic Table .
HOLOGRAMS AND VIRTUAL REALITY
The Virtual Theater is a room with a 360 ° curved wall of about 7 meters in diameter, for the simulation of three-dimensional urban or interior environments, inside of which a person can have an immersive experience that offers the feeling of real and reactive space . The room is equipped with programmable sensors: for example, it is possible to make the environment react to the movement of a cyclist or a person running on a treadmill.
Virtual Theatre
The Holograms Table, on the other hand, allows the visualization of three-dimensional objects in a holographic environment, that is, in the 3D space in front of us. " The researcher can see the object as if it was really in front of him ", comments Bolognesi, "one feels the urge to touch it, manipulate it. We understand that there are only two Hologram Tables in Europe for research, and that this is the most recent; it will be an important incentive to explore the frontiers of research in the modeling field and beyond".
Hologram Table
The fields of application are many: from biomedical experimentation on prostheses or other devices (researchers could have immediate feedback on the way in which the device interacts with the human body) to cultural heritage projects (it is possible to view a restoration work before and after adding components, in real time), to mechanics .
TO SEE WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE
"The Holograms Table and the Virtual Theater will encourage students and researchers to discover even further and to become confident with new techniques ", continues Bolognesi, "because it will give them the possibility of seeing something realized that cannot be seen in any other way, but it could only be imagined. Together with the ABC research group we have viewed here at LaBora our study on the complex of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan: 174 scans, a 30 giga point cloud. From the Theater it is possible to visit the whole complex, inside and outside the church, enter the cloisters, the Bramante sacristy, observe the state of decay as well as the beauty of these vaults. The level of detail is high, with definitions up to 5mm. The colleagues of the 3DSurvey Group were able to view the virtual model of the Val Chiavenna, created as part of the Interreg VA Italy-Switzerland AMALPI.18 project, also in this case with an impressive level of detail: a model of kilometers where, by zooming in, it is possible to view up to the section of the cables of the power lines of the valley. In the Virtual Theater, colleagues from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) viewed experiments on the Campus, redesigned adjacent urban environments, simulation components on flows of people otherwise not viewable. LaBora is truly a science amusement park for those who love to imagine and design ”.
Tavolo Ologrammi in funzione
Teatro Virtuale in funzione
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Santa Maria delle Grazie
WHERE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL MEET
“ One of the lab's missions is to create a place where research, teaching and the territory develop a virtuous relationship, a relationship at the heart of our University's strategies . Here postgraduate students, departmental researchers, doctoral students but also companies and institutions that collaborate with the Politecnico will have space: it is important to bring these realities in the local territory and make them a flywheel of proposition and innovation with repercussions also outside the academic world ”, continues Bolognesi.
"We will involve colleagues from various disciplines in the LaBora, who will be able to use the lab as a strength point also inside their European projects". The contamination and hybridization between physical and digital will produce new effects here.
"We will involve colleagues from various disciplines in the LaBora, who will be able to use the lab as a strength point also inside their European projects". The contamination and hybridization between physical and digital will produce new effects here.
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The data relating to the donations of your '5 per mille' in 2019 have been released. The donors of Politecnico were 8.012, for a total of € 662,844. In the general ranking of institutions admitted to the benefit of the donation, the University moved from 64th place in 2018 to 59th place in 2019. For the second consecutive year, Politecnico di Milano is ranked 9th in the list of scientific research centers and in 2nd place among universities, relative to the amount of donations.
In recent years, donations of '5 per mille' to the Politecnico di Milano have followed a growth trend, reflecting the community's support for the University's activities.
"Many Alumni are involved at different levels in reflections and actions in a continuous dialogue with" our Politecnico ", to maximize the positive effects in terms of impact on society" , comments prof . Enrico Zio, rector's delegate for Alumni and president of Alumni Politecnico di Milano.
Since 2013, research projects financed with '5 per mille' have been selected by Polisocial , the program of commitment and social responsibility of the Politecnico di Milano.
First in Italy among academic initiatives of this type, Polisocial aims to support and initiate responsible research projects and support them with a view to sustainability over time. The initiative also aims to give space to young researchers and cultivate an ethical approach to academic work, to enhance the social impact of skills gained at Politecnico.
"For these projects, and those to come, I would like to give my thanks to you and to invite you to continue supporting them. Because social innovation moves through a"humanly right" technology, to build a sustainable future, conclude Enrico Zio.
DONATE YOUR 5 PER MILLE TO POLITECNICO AND CONTRIBUTE TO SUPPORTING RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH
Allocating the 5 per mille to the Politecnico di Milano is simple, just put your signature in the box "Funding of scientific research and the University" which appears on the tax return forms and specify the tax code of the Politecnico di Milano TAX CODE 800 579 301 50
PhotonPath , a spin off of Politecnico di Milano incubated by Polihub, is ready to land on the market in 2021 with an innovative technology that promises to revolutionize telecommunications: the introduction of chips equipped with photonic circuits instead of electric ones, able to reduce the size and costs of optical fiber networks .
“A couple of customers are already testing our applications - says to Sole24ore the co-founder Douglas Aguiar - and we are planning to finalize these demos in in the next few months. The target, in three years, is to build 3 thousand units a year to reach the goal of five million in revenues".
PhotonPath nasce dal lavoro congiunto durante il dottorato di Douglas Aguiar, CEO e Alumnus in Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni e Emanuele Guglielmi, CTO e Alumnus in Ingegneria elettronica, che hanno lavorato nel campo della fotonica integrata.
Thanks to the collaboration between two research groups of the Politecnico (the Photonic Devices Group and the I3N Lab) of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), in 2019 they created this start- up deep tech - a spin off of the Politecnico - with the aim of improving the quality and programmability of fiber optic telecommunications networks.
Credits: Business Insider
This takes place through the marketing of miniaturized chips in which, in addition to electrical signals, light signals are also propagated. The advantage of the technology is that it offers the possibility to reprogram the chip according to the specific needs of the individual customer.
"This is a very valuable feature for network operators, who see data traffic needs constantly changing within their networks. Thanks to integrated photonics, our control and calibration algorithms, network equipment becomes smaller, consumes less energy, is more performing, and is cheaper " says Aguiar to Business Insider .
He adds:
"The problem is that the constant growth in capacity and performance that has taken place over the last 30 years is reaching a limit and new technologies are needed to support it: this is where integrated photonics and our chips come into play".
The goal starting from 2021 is to enter the global telecommunications market and to produce 3000 units of the product within five years, eventually bringing integrated photonics into other segments of market.
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Digital Talks organizzato dal chapter internazionale Alumni Politecnico di Milano Parigi in collaborazione con Castaldi Partners.
Speaker: Gaspare Gori, avvocato del foro di Parigi e Roma – co-responsabile corporate M&A, responsabile nuove tecnologie a CastaldiPartners Marianna Belotti, Alumna del Politecnico, vicepresidente di APP, studentessa CIFRE CNAM e ingegnera al Groupe Caisse des Dépôts.
Moderatore: Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Alumnus del Politecnico, tesoriere di APP e partner di Linkers, M&A Director
"I believe that the priorities for Italy - from our point of view - are the digitization of the public administration, the financial sector and our manufacturing industry as well as the industry of made in Italy. We therefore need to accelerate in this regard. "
There has been a change of perspective, that the health emergency has contributed to revolutionize, in the perception of digital technologies, transforming them into fundamental elements for the survival of businesses. The driving forces of this change will be artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud .
“2020 has canceled a lot of myths revolving around the digital sector. I think today both the leadership and the general public are more aware of the positive aspects of technologies. "
To manage the change there will be a need of collaboration and digitization , of which Rebattoni and IBM are active promoters in two macro areas: small and medium-sized private enterprises , are provided with a specially designed training and support path, as well as ad hoc technological solutions, and public administration, where digital skills should be integrated.
Credits: www.corrierecomunicazioni.it
PANDEMIC AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FUTURE
In addition to training the sectors on digital issues, among the innovations IBM is working on there is also the digital health pass , a sort of health "passport" that allows you to always have information with you of a health, such as vaccination status or positive or negative Covid19 status.
A solution that can facilitate the post-pandemic world, which could also help restart society and therefore also the economy.
“In short, the digital sector is turning from a necessity into an opportunity. If it does not become a central topic now, I wonder if it will ever happen".
One of the goals of the community of Politecnico di Milano is to support, also financially, the best students through scholarships.
Some of the scholarships are financed by external institution, such as the Andrea Poffe Fellowship for Young Talents, which is supported throught the Fondazione Poffe, established in memoriam ofAndrea Poffe, Alumnus of Mechanical Engineering who passed away prematurely in 2020 at 40 years old.
Andrea Poffe founded Zero Gravity (Credits: Corriere della Sera)
“When Andrea suddently passed away, a support network around him spontaneously started a fundraising campaign and we reached 45 thousand dollars in a few days. And we thought to offer scholarships to help talented students like him, to have other people like Andrea in our lives. It will be offered every year and we plan to expand the program with other donations " says Fabrizio Fantini to Corriere della Sera .
The scholarship, intended for a high school student, will start from the 2021/2022 academic year and will be awarded on merit, financial needs and entrepreneurial ambition. The coverage of university fees will be 100% for the entire three-year course of study at the Politecnico di Milano and more than 80% of the tuition for accommodation and extracurricular activities at the prestigious Collegio di Milano.
Do you wish to launch a campaign to establish a scholarship? Visit our section on the website dedicated to the donation options of Politecnico di Milano. Visit the website
Leafing through the pages of MAP we will travel from the classrooms of the Politecnico to new planets to be explored together with the main characters of this issue.
We will learn more about Alumni Companies , such as the one of Alessandro Pedretti, inventor of a anti-Covid fabric, and of the Alumni Gabriele Natale and Marco Caglieris, each carrying the Politecnico for the seven seas in each own way. We will travel to the Silicon Valley with Paolo Sacchetto (from Apple) and we'll go to Mars with Marco Dolci, responsible of the under-robotic system of the rover Perseverance.
We will sneak into the laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano, to witness the first interaction between light and matter, to take a ride on one of the most innovative driving simulators in the world and to find out how a bridge is tested to be safe over the years. We will read about many research projects funded by Alumni and the community around the world.
Social innovation through" humanly right "technology, to build a sustainable future for our world, is not an unambitious goal ... but we get there by working together, Polytechnic and Alumni: in Milan, in Italy, all over the world ... beyond… towards the borders of the Solar System, as you will read in the journey of these pages designed for you, written with you. .»
– Enrico Zio |President of the Association of the Alumni of Politecnico di Milano
Rector's Delegate for Alumni and individual fundraising at Politecnico di Milano
Since the first prototype of blockchain was proposed in 2008 with Bitcoin , the technology has evolved significantly from public distributed ledgers to private alternatives (or semi-private) that can be adapted to different uses.
The evolution of Blockchain will be at the center of the Digital Talks of Tuesday April 20th, organized by the International Paris Alumni Chapter: “Blockchain : liberté et egalité ”.
During the webinar we will try to identify, both from a technological and legal perspective , a series of issues that have been raised by the introduction of a revolutionary technology such as blockchain within traditional business schemes.
WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?
blockchain can be considered as a quantum leap from distributed database technology; in fact, it allows to share a large register of transactions that are read, validated and stored in transaction blocks linked together, which form a chain of blocks - that is a blockchain .
The majority of blockchain applications integrate the technology to reach goals of:
decentralization,
transparency and traceability
automation and scheduling
The decentralized logic , proposed by blockchain technology, aims at replacing some actions reserved to a trusted intermediary ( trusted third party ) with pieces of code that execute transactions in a programmed and automatic way.
In this context, it is essential to identify the responsibilities of the parties that interact through blockchain transactions executed on time or in a programmed manner (the so-called smart contracts).
In the legal field, the contractual relations between the parties must analyze and describe in simple language the pieces of code that characterize the blockchain protocols used for the exchange of assets on blockchain (crypto-assets).
LEARN MORE AT THE DIGITAL TALK
Il digital talks “Blockchain: liberté et egalité” sarà un’opportunità per conoscere meglio questa tecnologia e l’applicazione dei noti smart contracts. L’appuntamento è per martedì 20 aprile, alle ore 18.30.
Gaspare Gori , lawyer of the Paris and Rome bar - co-head of corporate M&A, head of new technologies at CastaldiPartners and Marianna Belotti , Alumna of the Politecnico, vice president of APP, CIFRE CNAM student and engineer at Groupe Caisse des Dépôts.
Moderator: Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Alumnus Politecnico, treasurer of APP and partner of Linkers, M&A Director.
A robot that becomes a virtual personal trainer : it's not science fiction, but Gymnasio , a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor the positions of the human body during training.
The startup behind the project has been funded by three Alumni of Politecnico di Milano and two Alumni of Politecnico di Torino, and is among the winners of Switch2Product, the program that champions innovative solutions on the market, new technologies and new business ideas and is supported by Politecnico and from Polihub.
The team met in Alta Scuola Politecnica, during the entrepreneurial program 'Pioneer' of the School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI) of Turin in a project in collaboration with Sprint Reply and supervised by Prof. Barbara Caputo (PoliTo), and by Prof. Cesare Alippi (PoliMi).
The objective is twofold: to make safe and personalized training accessible to as many people as possible and to revolutionize the home fitness market, which has had a surge during the pandemic .
Credits: www.gymnasio.it
Credits: www.gymnasio.it
HOW DOES GYMNASIO WORKS?
Gymnasio is able, thanks to the 3D camera and artificial intelligence algorithms , to correct movements and posture, manage personal records, track progress and give precise feedback during training.
Credits: www.gymnasio.it
Starting from Pepper , the first version of the device with the appearance of a humanoid robot, the Gymnasio team then modified the device with more compact and accessible forms , ideal for training at home in times of pandemics.
“The pandemic played a fundamental role. We will not be able to replace the empathy of a human: we want to give an alternative that can be purchased by everyone and that can be used at home. " declares to TG1 Daniele Gusmini , Alumnus of Automation Engineering and Control Engineering and CEO and co-founder of the start up.
The product, still in the prototype stage, thanks to its small size can be used anywhere and in the future it will be available on the market thanks to a subscription .
In questo Digital Talks, organizzato assieme a Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, è stato approfondito il tema sempre più attuale della vita nello spazio, guardando al ruolo che il design può avere nel migliorare le condizioni di permanenza e di lavoro degli astronauti e nel proporre metodi e strumenti per affrontare condizioni ambientali estreme trasformandole da limitazioni in opportunità.
Ne hanno parlato la prof.ssa Annalisa Dominoni e il prof. Benedetto Quaquaro, Responsabili del corso di Space Design “Space4InspirAction”, Scuola del Design, Master of Science in Integrated Product Design. Moderato da Ing. Daniele Bignami, Project Manager e referente Collana Springer “Research for Development”, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
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