As our opening event in June 2022 aimed to narrate, our laboratory in Rome was born thanks to a scientific agreement with the Enrico Fermi Research Centre (generally referred to as CREF). This agreement represents a unique public-private effort for science and a source of pride for us.
Signing such an agreement conveys a huge meaning both from a scientific perspective and from a conceptual point of view.
The scientific heritage, together with the present achievements and knowledge that the Enrico Fermi Research Center brings to this agreement, makes it possible to link the past to the needs of the future, being aware of the present’s challenges: those challenges Sony CSL aims to address too.
The field of collaboration spans three macro areas of research: Sustainable Cities, AI and Machine Learning for Innovation, Misinformation and Social Dialogue.
The Sustainable Cities project aims at:
- the development of What-if Platforms to assess the situation of urban environments on the issue of public transportation quality, inclusiveness, economic activities;
- the deployment of What-if Platforms and testing of scenarios for urban environments and their socio-economic challenges;
- to forecast the evolution of the What-If Platforms under user-designed scenarios;
- the creation of metrics and visualizations, modelling tools, and Al assistantsthat could be adopted by institutional agencies and policymakers worldwide to plan local interventions and reshape the urban infrastructure.
Results anticipated
- Scientific Papers: writing of scientific papers on the topic of sustainable cities and the development done in this area using machine learning techniques, which shall be published in high-impact international scientific journals;
- Algorithms: creation of AI and Machine Learning algorithms related to the forecast of Urban Environments’ evolution and innovation forecast. Depending on the cases, such algorithms might be released under open-source schemes or integrated into dashboards and platforms;
- Platforms: creation of novel platforms for the study and the assessment of urban environments or the integration of new functionalities in the existing ones.
Project directors:
CREF: Luciano Pietronero
Sony CSL – Rome: Vittorio Loreto
Project Managers:
CREF: Andrea Gabrielli and Fabrizio Coccetti
Sony CSL – Rome: Matteo Bruno and Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo
The AI and Machine Learning for Innovation project aims at:
- testing the ability of an Al system equipped with specific novelty exploration learning algorithms to assess the evolution of a non-stationary reference system like patenting, scientific papers;
- testing the Al system, using learning algorithms, for the optimisation of social systems.
Results anticipated:
- Scientific Papers: writing of scientific papers on the topic of the implication of the Al techniques and machine learning in the scientific production, which shall be published in high-impact international scientific journals;
- Collaborations: creation of new use-case collaborations with local and international stakeholders.
Project directors:
CREF: Luciano Pietronero
Sony CSL – Rome: Vittorio Loreto
Project Managers:
CREF: Andrea Gabrielli and Fabrizio Coccetti
Sony CSL – Rome: Alessandro Londei
The Misinformation and Social Dialogue project aims at:
- providing long-term technological solutions to the challenges of the Information Age based on new recommender systems, novel news source reputation mechanisms and the dynamics of supply and demand of information in the news ecosystem;
- improving the rating mechanisms in order to rebuild the trust in the information system
- improving people’s diversity experience on the web without loss of effectiveness in terms of user experience and prevent polarisation and the formation of echo-chambers;
- creating innovative, science-based policies for governments, authorities and the news ecosystem actors to minimise misinformation and its effects.
Results anticipated:
- Scientific Papers: writing of scientific papers on the topic misinformation and social dialogue, which shall be published in high-impact international scientific journals;
- Algorithms: creation of Al and Machine Learning algorithms related to balanced reputation mechanisms and recommender systems;
- Platforms: creation of novel platforms for the study and the assessment of online reputation or the integration of new functionalities in the existing ones;
- Collaborations: creation of new use-case collaborations with local and international
- stakeholders.
Project directors:
CREF: Luciano Pietronero
Sony CSL – Rome: Vittorio Loreto
Project Managers:
CREF: Andrea Gabrielli and Fabrizio Coccetti
Sony CSL – Rome: Pietro Gravino
