Cervello in fuga

Che io sia dotato fisicamente di un cervello è un dato di fatto, anche se valutarne la capacità mi sembra un atto assai pretenzioso. Che stia abbandonando un posto di borsista post-doc per lasciare il paese alla ricerca di qualcosa di economicamente più vantaggioso è altrettanto un dato di fatto, ma dargli il nome di “fuga” mi sembra non corrispondente al contesto generale: i ricercatori di solito zoppicano lentamente nella speranza di non essere sommersi da un sistema economico avverso. Per questi due motivi la definizione di “cervello in fuga” mi è sempre sembrata inadeguata a descrivere quello che è accaduto a tanti miei ex-colleghi e che adesso sto vivendo in prima persona.

Rimane il fatto che dal 1 febbraio 2010 sarò a spasso, o più precisamente vagherò grazie ai famigerati low-cost in direzione UK, per cercare di interrompere la pluriennale esperienza di commuting imposta da un matrimonio a distanza e allo stesso tempo cercare di risolvere il problema che assilla un’intera generazione: come riuscire a pagare le prossime bollette e allo stesso tempo sbizzarrirsi nell’acquisto di un paio di CD senza dover necessariamente ricorrere all’aiuto del conto in banca dei genitori?

Lascio un centro di ricerca meraviglioso (il MICC), popolato da giovani volenterosi che giornalmente si pongono lo stesso quesito, capitanato da un professore a volte mal visto per la sua visione moderna dell’istituzione universitaria. Auguro a tutti di poter trovare quel che non sono stato in grado di trovare in questi anni, ringrazio per quel che mi è stato insegnato e che son riuscito di imparare, mi incammino su una nuova strada ancora da battere con in mente le parole di una mia cara amica: nessuna condizione umana è permanente.

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Flux of Meme elevator pitch – working capital telecom italia

Thank’s to Telecom Italia “Working Capital”, here you can find the video of the elevator pitch prepared for my latest research on semantic web: Flux of Meme. Description and presentation is entirely in italian, but you can download a translated PDF here.

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Vidivideo project demo at ACM 2009, Beijing

Marco will forgive me if I copy (and link of course!) some of his text.

First of all, it must be noticed that yesterday there was our demo for the Vidivideo project, as Marco reports:

Today was the demo day in ACM Multimedia 2009, here in Beijing. Thomas Alisi and I have demoed for about two (very busy) hours the semantic video search engine, the web-based video annotation tool and a new interface for video browsing. All the systems are web applications developed at MICC within the VidiVideo project.

The presentation was extremely successful, and luckily we had two machines to run the demos, otherwise it would have been difficult to show our work to all the people that came to visit us.

And another awful fact must be reported: there is a quite hard censorship in China, our posts and tweets appear to go in the vacuum since we are totally unable to see the effects of our posts. Friendfeed, Twitter, Facebook are all blocked. Even the Friendfeed feed I usually read on my Google reader makes the browser give a connection error. Quoting Marco again:

The ACM Multimedia 2009 website reports that there’s a Twitter hashtag (#acmmm09) to follow what’s going on here at ACM Multimedia 2009, in Beijing.

The problem is that Twitter seems to be considered perilous by the Chinese government, probably inspired by what has happened in Iran, so, like Facebook, it can’t be accessed.

The tweet related to he demos made by MICC yesterday have been tweeted from a guy in Europe.

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ACM Multimedia 2010 website on line!

ACM Multimedia 2010

ACM Multimedia 2010

ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier conference on Multimedia and a key world event to display new scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. Please go inside, look at the programs and plan to submit your contribution to ACM Multimedia 2010. We expect that you join us in Firenze, in October 2010.

http://www.acmmm10.org/

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google sync problems with nokia mail for exchange

Coupled, originally uploaded by Anurag Prashar (returning gradually)

Few days ago I decided to move all my mobile sync services to google products from an Exchange 2007 server. My mobile is a Nokia E90 Communicator, a decent “brick in my pocket” stuffed with a bunch of useful-but-not-so-cute software. I was totally unprepared for what was going to happen, since I could not imagine that the native Symbian S60 sync service “Mail for Exchange” would have incurred in such problems. I have read almost everything about this problems on the web, but I did not found anything that was really describing what was happening to me, thus I will write down here some notes and hopefully someone else could find them useful.
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