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Cities are Getting Smarter Thanks to Qubits: New Smart City Technologies from Sardinia

From optimizing traffic management and forecasting energy consumption to improving urban logistics, reducing environmental impact, and ensuring secure data management, future cities will overcome key challenges by integrating quantum technologies into their infrastructures. Leading this transformation is CRS4 – the Center for Research, Development and Advanced Studies in Sardinia – a key player in the…

CRS4 Files five New Patent Applications and a trademark

The CRS4 has initiated the current year by filing five new patent applications, one of which is accompanied by a trademark filing, in order to safeguard the intellectual property of its inventions and innovations. The areas covered by these applications include: Multimedia Interaction and Content Management: A system designed for user-display interaction, enabling the management,…

CRS4 Supports the Region of Sardinia in Promoting the Territory at Expo Osaka 2025

The CRS4 has signed a framework agreement with the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (RAS), through its Department of Programming, Budget, Credit, and Land Management – Regional Programming Centre (CRP). The agreement aims to support the promotion of Sardinia’s territory, resources, and strategic projects, showcasing the region’s innovation and productive capabilities at Expo Osaka 2025, which…

CRS4 Deposits Fifteen Additional Software Applications with SIAE

The CRS4 concludes 2024 with the successful registration of 15 new software applications with SIAE, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers. These new entries join the 27 software applications registered earlier this year in January, securing intellectual property rights and certifying their originality as unpublished works. Giacomo Cao, Sole Administrator of CRS4, commented: “The…

Enrico Gobbetti and Giovanni Pintore Win Best Paper Award at STAG2024 for VISPI: Virtual Staging Pipeline for Single Indoor Panoramic Images

Enrico Gobbetti and Giovanni Pintore from the Visual and  Data-intensive Computing Group at CRS4, in collaboration with Uzair Shah, Sara Jashari, Muhammad Tukur, Jens Schneider, and Marco Agus from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar, have won the Best Paper Award at the STAG2024 International Conference (Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics, 2024), organized…

The standards of the AI ACT, the European Union regulation on artificial intelligence

The event "The Standards of the AI ACT, the European Union Regulation on Artificial Intelligence: How to Gain a Competitive Advantage in the Distribution of AI Systems" took place yesterday, September 23, at the conference hall of the Fondazione di Sardegna in Cagliari. The event, organized by CRS4 in collaboration with UNINFO – the Federated…

Second year of STEM outreach activities in kindergartens and primary schools in Sardinia

The second year of activities promoting STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in kindergartens and the first and second grades of primary schools throughout Sardinia has also concluded positively. The activities, which began in March of last year, have so far reached 243 schools (133 primary and 110 kindergartens) in 102 locations across the…

CRS4, the first Italian institution recognised by the international organisation QWorld for the quantum computing dissemination

The CRS4, at the forefront of the digital world for over thirty years - in 1993 www.crs4.it was the first website in Italy – is the first Italian institution to join the international network of operational groups within the QWorld organisation, under the headline of QItaly. QWorld (www.qworld.net), which includes 29 nations, is an international…

Sardinia in space: filed an international patent

UNISS, CRS4, DASS UNICA and TOLO Green for the advancement of research in astrobiology The University of Sassari, the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), the Sardinia AeroSpace District (DASS), the University of Cagliari and the Tolo Green company, all from Italy, have filed an innovative international patent application that will…