CSL will open its Rome office in the prestigious premises of the Enrico Fermi Research Centre within the historical building of the “I Ragazzi di Via Panisperna”.

Also, CSL Paris is celebrating this year its 25th birthday, and it will do this with an Open House that will take place in the exciting framework of the Maker Faire Rome 2021. CSL, together with other sectors of Sony, will have an ample exhibition space, spanning topics from smart cities to agriculture, from misinformation to language technologies to creativity. In addition, the Sony team will provide the Maker Faire with a brand-new technology based on Sony smart cameras to control the flow of people inside the pavilions to comply with Covid restrictions.

The event developed all day long, presenting during the morning, an overview of the principal research projects the two entities are involved in and leaving the floor, during the afternoon, to a more interactive phase, where the researchers discussed about a possible collaboration for the projects’ development.

During the first part of the day, Bernardo Monechi presented the Sony CSL research activity on Sustainable Cities, giving highlights about the whatif-machine platform and the POCs Sony CSL will realize in the Rome Metropolitan Area; then Giordano De Marzo gave an interesting highlight on the application of Zipf’s and Heap’s law to the study of urban development and finally Pietro Gravino presented his research activity on Information Systems .

After lunch, two working groups took place, one on Misinformation and Social Dynamics and the other one on Sustainable Cities and the day came to an end laying the foundation of a stronger and more structured collaboration in the very next future.