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If TV series are the ones to reflect on cybersecurity

Gli attacchi e il terrorismo informatico sono argomento di attualità, perfino al centro di serie tv, come Zero Day. Quanto la fiction è vicina alla...

SocietyTechnology and Innovation

Artificial intelligence, human errors

When AI gets it wrong: why it happens, and how to avoid it.

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The technology of control: how authoritarian regimes use data and artificial intelligence

Interview with Michael Rochlitz, professor at Oxford University and expert on the politics of Russia and China, on global political and economic scenarios.

SocietyTechnology and Innovation

The invasion of the 'bad bots'

What they are, what we know about them and how they act in the online manipulation market.

Mind and Brain

Even in altruism there is a bit of genetics

Certain variants of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin seem to make us either more cooperative or more individualistic.

Alumni StoriesTechnology and Innovation

Artificial intelligence, this unknown

A conversation with Davide Bacciu, professor at the University of Pisa, on the technology that is changing our lives.

SocietyTechnology and Innovation

Health data under scrutiny: when hackers enter the ward

What is behind cybercrime's interest in medical information, and what are the possible solutions.

Alumni StoriesTechnology and Innovation

From research to citizens: artificial intelligence that improves public policy

Falco Bargagli Stoffi, professor at UCLA, tells how mathematics, statistics and machine learning can make public services fairer and more efficient.

Economy

If you agree on social media to buy and sell stocks

After the Gamestop case, a platform helps to identify signs of potential coordinated actions that could destabilise the markets.

Mind and Brain

Hearing may not be enough: what new studies on children with cochlear implants teach us

The effectiveness of early intervention is confirmed, but also the need for rehabilitation efforts to improve the development of spoken language comprehension.

CulturesAlumni Stories

How archaeology data speaks to us today

Nicolò Dell'Unto, director of the Lund University Digital Archaeology Lab, reflects on developments in contemporary archaeology.

Technology and Innovation

From social networks to protein relationships: new mathematical methods to 'simplify' the world

They are used to scale the representation of complex systems to obtain systems that are simpler to study, but with the same properties as the original.

SocietyTechnology and Innovation

Is smart working more or less polluting than office work?

A project seeks to estimate 'on the ground' the emissions associated with various forms of remote working.

Technology and Innovation

What a life in the (sub)soil!

Network science helps to understand the complex ecosystem beneath our feet.