Augmented Creativity – Sony CSL – Rome

Surfing the waves of human complexity

milena — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:47:25 +0000

Summer at Sony CSL – Rome brought about significant developments across the lab’s main research areas, which centre on studying Complex Systems and their application to various aspects of human life. Sony CSL – Rome functions as a scientific ecosystem where curiosity and interdisciplinary research are continuously linked to real-world impact. The organisation examines numerous perspectives, including urban organisation, equitable access to resources and opportunities, and how creativity can enhance interactions with emerging technologies. Additionally, it aims to understand which innovations are likely to have the most substantial influence on our future, prompting us to reflect on the role we should play as human beings. This collaborative effort, bolstered by partnerships with the Enrico Fermi Research Centre and Sapienza University of Rome, has led to a growing number of publications in leading scientific journals. These publications provide valuable insights into how complexity shapes various aspects of human endeavours.

Cities
The paper Revealing the core-periphery structure of cities (Federica Fanelli, Hygor Melo, Matteo Bruno, Vittorio Loreto) applies concepts from statistical physics to urban systems, showing how amenities cluster into cores, intermediate zones, and peripheries. This framework highlights how accessibility and inequality are embedded in the spatial organization of cities.

Complementing this, Introducing Friction of Space into the Geography of Cultural Consumption (Lorenzo Biferale, Alessandro Crociata Lavinia Rossi Mori, Claudio Chiappetta, Matteo Bruno) uses GPS mobility data to study how proximity to cultural amenities shapes cultural consumption, revealing persistent spatial inequalities in access and participation.

Finally, Road-Width-Aware Network Optimisation for Bike Lane Planning (Riccardo Basilone, Matteo Bruno, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Michele Avalle, Vittorio Loreto) introduces a new framework for planning cycling infrastructure by integrating road width data into network simulations. Focusing on Milan, the study shows how protected bike lanes can be optimised to balance connectivity for cyclists with minimal disruption to car traffic. The results demonstrate that extensive, realistic cycling networks can be created with limited impact on existing roads, providing urban planners with flexible strategies for the transition to sustainable mobility.

Human Creativity and AI
Two papers present new methods to expand AI’s creative potential. Dreaming Learning (Alessandro Londei, Matteo Benati, Denise Lanzieri, Vittorio Loreto) introduces an approach that allows machines to internally explore new ideas while remaining consistent with prior knowledge. This enables the development of less conservative and more adaptive solutions.

The second paper, Lyapunov Learning at the Onset of Chaos (Alessandro Londei, Denise Lanzieri, Matteo Benati, Vittorio Loreto), builds on this concept by leveraging the system’s own complex dynamics. This method pushes AI close to instability, paradoxically enhancing its ability to handle novel situations and creative challenges.

Economy and Technological Innovation
The study Comparative analysis of technological fitness and coherence at different geographical scales (Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Andrea Tacchella) shows that the effects of technological specialisation and diversification on economic growth vary depending on the territorial scale. While specialisation benefits metropolitan areas, it hinders growth at larger scales, whereas diversification enhances national and metropolitan performance but not regional growth. These findings emphasise the importance of tailoring innovation policies to geographical contexts.

Exploring the Origins of Novelty
The paper Modelling singularities in macroevolution (Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, Vittorio Loreto) develops mathematical models based on the Theory of the Adjacent Possible, which explain sudden explosive growth in systems like population, technology, and biological evolution. The results suggest that apparent singularities are not actual infinities, but signs of deep transitions where new combinations of existing elements open unforeseen trajectories of change. Another published paper on the same topic from the same authors here: Full spectrum of novelties in time-dependent urn.

Research on complexity shows that sudden changes, inequalities, and breakthroughs often arise from hidden dynamics that connect individual actions to collective outcomes. By bringing these mechanisms to light, we are reminded of our role as active participants in steering innovation, creating fairer societies, and ensuring that technology truly serves human life. The work at Sony CSL in Rome illustrates that understanding complexity is not just about acquiring knowledge; it is also about consciously shaping the future.

“Duetto-Human Movement and AI”, the full documentary is now available

milena — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:37:47 +0000

“Duetto” is a research project in which the relationship between artificial intelligence and human movement is investigated, it was born within the S+T+ARTS project, a European program that promotes the exchange between Science, Technology and Art, and is led by Sony CSL – Rome, in collaboration with Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto, La Piroetta Dance School/Aleph Dance Company and the European University of Rome.

Duetto is an innovative scientific project that combines generative artificial intelligence with the study of human movement. The goal is to develop models that can understand how people move in response to certain inputs. To achieve this, we asked performers at various levels to dance in front of some cameras to a variety of music asking them to improvise! During this phase of data collection, we also collaborated with choreographers and maitre de ballet so that they could, in some cases, direct the movement of the dancers through choreographic hints, to make sure that their movement was as varied as possible.

Preliminary experiments have already made it clear that “Duetto” will become more and more like a virtual creative partner for the choreographer or dancer, that is, a system capable of suggesting new movement sequences, exploring original solutions that go beyond traditional canons. Artificial intelligence would not merely imitate what already exists, but would be capable of coming up with fresh new ideas, which the dancer may or may not take in, adapt, or rework.

Watch the promo of the project below!

To better understand “Duetto,” a comparison can be made with a language model such as ChatGPT. If ChatGPT works with words and creates sentences by combining them in meaningful ways, “Duetto” does the same with the human body: it takes body postures as “words” and combines them into sequences that become actual “body talk,” or movements.

In short, “Duetto” explores the language of movement and dialogues with those who interact with it through physical propositions that stimulate the imagination, offering a new way to create, improvise and innovate in the field of dance and, more generally, the performing arts.

Studying this kind of human-machine interaction centered on movement is very interesting for several reasons, first of all there is our scientific interest in the study of what a novelty is and how it is created, then there’s the fundamental question about human creativity: far from replacing us, can AI be useful to our creativity, can it increase our creativity so that it can be useful to us in finding more and more fitting solutions to the most diverse problems of humanity? Also, it is true that we are passionate about dance and in general about all the arts and how they have been intertwined with scientific and technological development for millennia, however, dance is a nice starting point for us to be able to understand also other types of movement in which artificial intelligence can be really very useful to us, we are talking about frontiers such as microsurgery, rehabilitation, preservation of ancient gestures and so on.

Watch below the full documentary on the first project’s developments, it contains interviews to the researchers, dancers, choreographers, psychologists who are taking part in this amazing activity!

Sony CSL at Expo Osaka 2025

milena — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:36:47 +0000

Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) participated in Expo Osaka 2025 as part of the activities planned by the Italian Pavilion and in particular within the week dedicated to opportunities and growth scenarios for businesses in the Lazio region.

Specifically, Sony CSL implemented its participation through two addresses during the event “Investing in Lazio: Japan tells Italy in Osaka through the territory,” which were held on May 19 at 3:30 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Italian Pavilion.

Hiroaki Kitano, Chief Technology Fellow of Sony Group Corporation as well as president and CEO of Sony CSL, and Vittorio Loreto, director of Sony CSL – Rome, alternated themselves to tell the audience in the room the story of a virtuous relationship established between Sony CSL and the Lazio territory that gave birth, a few years ago, to the research institution’s Rome laboratory, which before 2022, had its European base in the city of Paris alone.

Therefore, central to Hiroaki Kitano‘s speech has been the narration of what it means for an organization like Sony CSL to invest in Italy and in particular in the Lazio Region in a crucial sector such as scientific research and within a global landscape in total revolution from the point of view of global challenges. This was followed by a talk by Vittorio Loreto, scientific director of the Roman laboratory (Sony CSL – Rome), who dropped Kitano’s words into the territorial context to talk about the ecosystem of knowledge and know-how that the Roman laboratory has generated at the municipal and regional level and how the latter has been able to attract attention abroad.

In particular, Loreto brought the example of the research studies on cities and the urban environment that have already been the subject of an agreement with Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale in a way that we imagine could be scalable to other areas and institutions, and will announce what research projects Sony CSL is investing in in the area and the implications in terms of impact and value creation.

“Our research studies in the field of cities and urban environment have already been the subject of an agreement with Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, in a way that we imagine could be scalable to other areas and institutions”- said Vittorio Loreto scientific director of Sony CSL – Rome “and this is only the tangible part of the virtuous processes triggered by the presence of Sony CSL in the territory, in addition there is a whole network made up of people, skills and interactions that is creating an extremely thriving ecosystem based on the exchange of knowledge at high levels that is perhaps the phenomenon to be observed with the greatest interest.”

Picture: Italy Expo 2025 Osaka

The Intelligence of Babel, Dialogues between Literature and Science

milena — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:57:40 +0000

Within the framework of the “Dialogues between Literature and Science” the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome proudly presents “The Intelligence of Babel”. The second event of the “Dialogues” will take place on February 27th and it will be dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges and in particular to his story titled “The Library of Babel”, first appearing in 1941 in the collection “The Garden of Forking Paths” and then in 1944 within the volume “Ficciones”.

The event will start from Borges’ story to explore, through his great philosophical provocations and literary suggestions, the connections with the human mind and its famous artificial simulacrum. Sony CSL – Rome is particularly interested in these relationships not only to enhance the scientific understanding of the basic mechanisms of artificial minds, but above all to better understand the dynamics that characterize human creativity and their relationships with mathematical theories of innovation.

Alongside Alessandro Londei, researcher from Sony CSL – Rome and an expert in artificial intelligence, we will host Alessandra Ghezzani, professor of Hispanic-American language and literature at the University of Pisa, as well as an expert on the author, and Silvano Tagliagambe, philosopher of science. We will also be accompanied by the readings and moderation of Manuela Cherubini, actress, director, and expert in outreach.

The event is open to public through the registration at this link. Entrance from Piazza del Viminale 1, Rome.

Presenting our research projects at the Conference on Complex Systems 2022

milena — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:01:00 +0000

From the 17th to the 21st of October 2022 some of our researchers and collaborators attended the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) 2022 in Palma De Mallorca.

The CCS is the largest and most important annual meeting of the international complex systems community. It comes under the auspices of the Complex Systems Society and this edition, organised by IFISC, took place after the previous events held in Lyon, Online, Singapore, Thessaloniki and Cancun.

During those days at the CCS 2022 some of our researchers presented their works, some in collaboration with the Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF), the Sapienza University of Rome, the Parma University and other institutions.

Find some more details below.

Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo from CREF presented the work “Traveling heterogeneity in public transportation”, (by Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo and Vittorio Loreto) a joint project with CREF.

Ruggiero Lo Sardo from Sony CSL presented both the work “Evolutionary-like dynamics of writing” (by Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto) and the work “Disagreement and fragmentation, understanding the structures of trust in news” (by Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Pietro Gravino and Vittorio Loreto).

Matteo Bruno from our lab presented the work “Assessing the 15-Minute city and its impact on the quality of life” (by Claudio Chiappetta, Bernardo Monechi, Matteo Bruno, Enrico Ubaldi, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo and Vittorio Loreto).

Matteo Straccamore presented the work on “Urban Economic Fitness and Complexity from Patent Data” (by Matteo Straccamore, Matteo Bruno, Bernardo Monechi, Vittorio Loreto), a collaboration between Sony CSL, CREF and Sapienza University of Rome.

For the poster sessions we had Giulio Prevedello, from Sony CSL, on song success predictions and Andrea Guizzo, presenting the case study of the Parma University Campus on urban public transport modeling resource optimisation, a collaboration between Sony CSL, Parma University and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics.

About science and its ability to speak to people: a postcard from the Maker Faire

milena — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:24:43 +0000

From the 7th to the 9th of October we have been attending the Maker Faire Rome 2022-European Edition together with our colleagues from Sony CSL Paris. As during the past editions, it has been a golden opportunity to showcase our research works and to have an interesting exchange with all the people who passed through our booths, within the large Sony exhibition area.

While standing within the all area, we had the feeling of a continuous and significant flow of people, probably driven by the appealing position of our booths and of course by the event itself that, this year, after the Covid-19 restrictions, had recovered its original format with the all Gasometer space occupied by the premises of the faire.

Innova Camera, the leading institution in charge of the Maker Faire organisation spoke about 45.000 participants during the three days of the manifestation which is an incredible result for an event dedicated to innovation, science and technology.

Our exhibition area showed all the main projects under development in our two labs in Paris and in Rome and the number of people who asked us more details about our research activity was really surprising.

From the 15minute city project who totally conquered people’s attention, to the several Infosphere projects that stimulated the curiosity of the public about the analysis of the political speech on social media, continuing with the ForeMusic project and the incredible attraction the topic of music prediction has on people, going on with the project in partnership with CRC-Roma about using AI to improve texts’ understanding. Moreover, the two booths dedicated to augmented creativity and to sustainability had a great response from the public too. The first one because of the opportunity to “play” with neural networks and for the representation of the STARTS Project that tickled imagination through the infinite outcomes of science and arts working together. The second one (the sustainability booth) has been stormed by teenagers who demonstrated to be the most interested in understanding new agriculture methods able to preserve and make this heart an healthier place. Moreover, the app Kouzan, developed in collaboration with CSH Vienna has been used by several users to rate the installations of the whole faire.

During the second day of the faire, we also had the opportunity to speak live about our lab’s activities on the Maker Faire main stage and this small talk we had generated such a genuine interest in the public and a kind of surprise when realising that research has such a prominent position within Sony. Hereafter some of the tweets that went online during the talk.

The Maker Faire experience always requires a great preparation behind, the organisational effort is huge and entering the mood of a communicative dimension with the public could sound somehow challenging, but this is one of those events you always want to participate in, because of the lively atmosphere and the cultural and scientific exchange with the other attendees and for the preciousness of the feedback coming from the public. We are looking forward to attending next year again!

It’s time to “Maker Faire”, come visiting us in Rome at Gazometro Ostiense

milena — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:16:49 +0000

That time of the year has come: we will be attending the Maker Faire 2022 in Rome from Friday 7th until Sunday 9th and we are very glad to open our projects to the public within the Sony exhibition area. Our researchers from Sony CSL Paris and Sony CSL Rome will welcome the public at the Gazometro Ostiense for this 10th edition of the most famous event dedicated to innovation! Let’s go unveil some details now!

During the three days of the event, we will move our research work from our labs to the 6 booths that are hosting us at the Maker Faire and the work we are showing will touch interesting themes like sustainable agriculture, 15-minutes city, social dialogue, language and the fascinating interaction between artificial intelligence and arts intelligence and arts. Please go on through this article to have a sneak peek of what you could find at our exhibition area.

15 Minutes City

Scientist Carlos Moreno proposed a new concept to revolutionize urban environments, the 15 Minutes City: individuals should always be able to reach a set of venues they visit the most within a 15-minute travel distance by bicycle or on foot.

To assess whether different cities correspond to this idea, Sony CSL developed the 15 Minutes City platform, which will be shown at Maker Faire, including its latest progress. This tool is freely available online here.

ARTIS

Reading comprehension is a complex cognitive task that can be difficult and frustrating for many children with Learning Disorders. Sony CSL’s language team seeks to solve these difficulties by designing accessible and inclusive language technologies to enable hybrid therapies and educational practices. Collaborating with CRC – Research and Care Center, the team designed and evaluated whether a reading comprehension interface, powered by artificial intelligence, can make the entire process of reading and understanding texts more customizable, multimodal and truly inclusive. Here is the webpage dedicated to the project.

Art and Science: S+T+ARTS Project

S + T + ARTS is a project funded by the European Commission, promoting the intersection between science, technology, and arts. Its 2021 edition, “Repairing the Present”, asked artists worldwide to imagine a more sustainable, green, and livable cities. Sony CSL and MAXXI museum selected two relevant artists who spent six months in residency in Rome. Olga Kisseleva, an artist from Paris, delved into the topic of the beneficial role of trees in urban areas. Through her installation “Cities live like trees,” she reshaped urban mobility according to the citizen’s awareness of greenery. The second installation, by Susi Gutsche from Vienna, is focused on public awareness of movements of waste. In “Trace Waste,” she mapped the path of the garbage after it has been released in a trash can, both in urban areas of Rome and, more broadly, nation-wide. Sony CSL supported the artists as regards the data and algorithm part. At the same time, MAXXI contributed with its artistic curatorial expertise.

Face to Face

From a scientific point of view, creativity can be related to the exploration of what we call “the space of possibilities”. This space contains all the possible variations of what we already know, together with new, unexpected ideas whose origin and content are difficult to predict. In general, the exploration of the space of possibilities allows us to find original, pleasant or valid solutions starting from the information or data we already have. Artificial intelligence is an effective tool for extracting the important characteristics of a set of data, allowing us a direct interaction with the space of possibilities. The installation proposes to explore the space of human faces by interacting with AI and starting from a photo of the face.

Foremusic

Foremusic enables you to discover in advance how well a song will be received by the public, according to Spotify and YouTube’s success metrics. Sony CSL developed this AI system to investigate whether success can be predicted using big data from major streaming service platforms, to understand what the drivers of popularity in the music industry are.

KOUZAN

At Maker Faire in Rome, KOUZAN, a project in collaboration with CSH Vienna, presents a web application, Kouzan-Expo, which allows an interaction between the visitors and the installations of the fair. Visitors can access the informative material on the installation by scanning its QR code with the app. They can also express their level of appreciation of the installation through stars (1=not interesting, 5=interesting) and add comments. They can browse the chronology of their journey at any moment and get an indication of how predictable their rating activity was.

VALAWAI

VALAWAI (short for Value-Aware AI) project is funded by the European Commission, and, in collaboration with other European institutions (CISIC Barcelona, Institut Mar d’Investigacions Mediques, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Ghent University, Studio Stelluti), has developed value-aware AI components based on actual neuroscientific models. The aim is to include moral values in machine decision-making, in a way that makes both the system’s decisions and its reference values are transparent and reinforce human action.

Robotics for Microfarms (ROMI)

In the framework of the EU funded Project ROMI, the sustainability team at Sony CSL will show the cablebot that was jointly developed by IAAC/Fab Lab Barcelona and Sony CSL. The cablebot’s camera is used to take daily images of the plants and helps predict when they will be ready for harvest and what space will become available for new plantations.

WeWrite

Writing is a complex process. Yet, almost all current text editors seem to be designed as if authors already know exactly what they want to write from the beginning, and they just have to type it down in a linear and straightforward way, completely neglecting the complexity of the creative process. The philosophy of WeWrite is to create an environment where creativity, exploration, recombination, and, more in general, the complexities of the evolution of a text are supported to their wildest extents.

Infosphere

The Infosphere research line at Sony CSL is tackling the challenge of redesigning Information Technologies to make information more accessible and social dialogue more transparent, understandable, and healthy by collaborating with journalists, publishers, national authorities and institutions. Among the various projects presented at Maker Faire, a recent study on the linguistic behavior of Italian politicians on social media platforms: Sony CSL researchers were able to provide a visualization of many of the aspects of political communication which were previously inaccessible, thanks to the analysis of social networks’ big data. Sony CSL will also show the Lab4News project, the research and development initiative dedicated to the world of information, publishing and new media.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

About the journey of science: the Sony Computer Science Laboratories land in Rome

milena — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:54:23 +0000

The inauguration of the Sony Computer Science Laboratories’ (Sony CSL) new branch in Italy took place in Rome on Thursday 16th June in the prestigious Enrico Fermi Research Center, located in the historic building of “I Ragazzi di Via Panisperna”. The event has been a great success, welcoming a considerable number of guests who could enjoy the atmosphere of attending the event in presence, after a long time of online meetings.

In addition to Sony and Sony CSL management, the event has also been attended by different exponents of local and national institutions and representatives from entrepreneurship and innovation. After the welcome by Hiroaki Kitano (President and CEO of Sony CSL, CTO Sony Corp ) and Hideyuki Furumi (President Sony Europe BV), Vittorio Loreto (Director Sony CSL Paris & Rome) provided a brief scientific introduction on the laboratory’s research activities and then it was the turn for the many speakers to take the floor for a contribution to the debate.

The addresses of Luciano Pietronero (President CREF), Tsukasa Hirota (Deputy Head of Mission Japanese Embassy in Italy), Lorenzo Fioramonti (Member of the Italian Parliament), Monica Lucarelli (Rome Municipality Councilor for the Productive Activities and Equal Opportunities), Lorenzo Tagliavanti (President Chamber of Commerce of Rome), Ralph Dumm (European Commission, DG Connect and Head officer of STARTS programme) and Paolo Orneli (Lazio Region Councilor for the Economic Development, Commerce and handicraft, Research Startup and Innovation) followed each other within the lively first session of the event.

Introduction by Barbara Gasperini

Hiroaki Kitano

Hideyuki Furumi

Vittorio Loreto

Luciano Pietronero

Tsukasa Hirota

Lorenzo Fioramonti

Monica Lucarelli

Lorenzo Tagliavanti

Ralph Dumm

Paolo Orneli

Then the debate moved towards a more detailed presentation of the new laboratory’s three main research lines through the short dialogues between Bernardo Monechi (Sony CSL) and Luca Montuori (Roma 3 University) for the “Sustainable Cities“, Pietro Gravino (Sony CSL) and Marco Delmastro (CREF) for the “Infosphere” and Alessandro Londei (Sony CSL) and Olga Kisseleva (Sorbonne University) for the “Augmented Creativity”.

Bernardo Monechi and Luca Montuori

Pietro Gravino and Marco Delmastro

Alessandro Londei and Olga Kisseleva

The second session was masterfully concluded by the three addresses of Maria Chiara Carrozza (President of CNR), Maria Sabrina Sarto (Deputy Rector for the Research, Sapienza University of Rome) and Daniela Vuri (Deputy Rector for the Research, Tor Vergata University).

Maria Chiara Carrozza

Maria Sabrina Sarto

Daniela Vuri

Finally Vittorio Loreto and Barbara Gasperini (Moderator) took the floor to address their warmest thank you to all the guests and to all the people involved in the event organization, inviting everyone to visit the Museum dedicated to Enrico Fermi, located inside the homonymous center and to take a tour of the exhibition of artworks created by the artist and illustrator Fernando Cobelo at Sony CSL premises.

Visiting the Enrico Fermi Museum

Visiting Fernando Cobelo Exhibition

Enjoying the Cocktail Party

The final cocktail party was such a great moment for networking and to keep enjoying the experience of exchanging knowledge!

More about this event

After opening the historic offices in Tokyo and Paris and the more recent Kyoto, Sony CSL landed in Rome with a new laboratory dedicated to research in information, sustainability and artificial intelligence. The new laboratory was born thanks to a scientific agreement with the Enrico Fermi Research Center and it represents an example of a unique public-private effort for joint research.

More about the Sony Computer Science Laboratories

Sony CSL is a leading-edge laboratory dedicated to research that contributes to the common social good. The extreme flexibility and multidisciplinarity of the approach, adopted in the four offices of Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris and Rome, allows it to face the most diverse research areas, combining science, technological innovation, art and the public good in a single conceptual space. The specific themes range from music to language, from the future of cities to sustainable agriculture, from creative processes to humanity’s great challenges.

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Joint Initiative between Sony Computer Science Laboratories – Rome and CREF

milena — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:53:00 +0000

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

It’s not all about science!

Working together with amazing people within an harmonic, exciting and inclusive environment is the added value we bring to our projects!

Getting ready for our official opening in Rome: looking forward to meeting you

milena — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:59:01 +0000

We are glad to announce that our official opening is approaching! The event will take place on the 16th of June at 16.00 at the Enrico Fermi Research Center.

During the first part of the event we will illustrate our scientific activity and the projects we are developing in our new laboratory in Rome; this will be followed by a meeting with the institutions to outline opportunities for collaboration and points of contact. A cocktail party will be held at the end of the event.

Further information will be shared on this website!