SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, one of the most important events for the international computer graphics and interactive techniques community, takes place from 19 to 22 November 2013 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications program within SIGGRAPH Asia aims to cover the development, technology and marketing of mobile applications, including…
Ken Burns America PBS adopts NotreDAM platform by CRS4
The NotreDAM platform, developed by CRS4 within the DistrICT Lab initiative, has been adopted by the project "Ken Burns America" of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), as the back-office digital library. PBS, a non-profit corporation bringing together more than 350 public TV stations in the United States, is a multi-platform leader that serves Americans through…
Two awards to CRS4 from Digital Heritage2013 International Conference
Digital Heritage2013 International Conference has honoured by two different prizes (best paper award and ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage-JOCCH award) the CRS4 work Improving the digitization of shape and color of 3D artworks in a cluttered environmentco-authored by Fabio Bettio, Enrico Gobbetti, Emilio Merella and Ruggero Pintus, researchers of the Visual Computing group.…
For software nostalgics: Pydoop on Dr. Dobb's Journal
On June 11, 2013, the venerable Dr. Dobb's Journal reviewed Pydoop on its website. Pydoop, an open source software library for developing Python applications on the popular Hadoop distributed computing platform, is one of CRS4’s contributions to the Big Data community. Since its first release in 2009, Pydoop has received about 12000 downloads (5000 in…
Summer School in Genomics
The CNR-IRGB (Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica) and the CRS4 are organising the 3rd Sardinian Summer School "Genomic Analysis of Complex and Monogenic Disorders" (Sept. 9-13, 2013). The course is funded by the Regional government of Sardinia and will be free of charge for all attendees. The aim of this Summer School in Genomics…
Workshop on Future Demands and Challenges in ICT and Bioinformatics Tools for NGS
This workshop will deal with requirements and challenges related to ICT and bioinformatics tools that will need to be satisfied and addressed in the next 10 years to cope with the avalanche of data that will be produced. This workshop is the first of a series that will create the catalogue of the needs and…
Hadoop and NGS data processing hackathon III
This hackathon is a technical meeting of the WG3 parallel computing task force and is centered on problems in the high-throughput sequencing domain. The hackathon will be held on June 4th and 5th, 2013, at Polaris Science and Technology Park, Pula (Cagliari, Italy). The event is aimed at bioinformaticians and software developers who are using…
SWAT International Workshop in Sardinia
CRS4 in collaboration with the Grassland, Soil&Water Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) and with AgriLife Research of Texas A&M University System and with the support of theWater Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari and…
CRS4 Seminar. Sustainable Energy Development: The Present Situation and Possible Paths to the Future
Pula (CA), July 02, 2012 - 15:00 Sardegna Ricerche - Conference Room, Loc. Piscina Manna - Parco tecnologico Polaris - Building 2 Speaker Prof. Noam Lior Abstract Recent estimates and forecasts of the conventional fossil fuel resources and their reserve/production ratio, nuclear power, and renewable energy potential, and energy uses are surveyed. A brief discussion of the status,…
DART2012 - Call for paper
Barcelona (Spain), October 05-06, 2012 6th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval: novel distributed systems and applications Satellite Event of KDIR 2012 http://www.kdir.ic3k.org Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/363066620411238/ Twitter http://www.twitter.com/dart2012ws DATES: Paper Submission: June 21, 2012 Authors Notification: July 10, 2012 Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 24, 2012 Workshop days: October 5-6, 2012 CHAIRS: Cristian Lai…