Manlio De Domenico vince la Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012

Manlio de Domenico (sino a ieri gruppo raggi cosmici, esp. Auger) e' risultato il vincitore in una competizione in ambito internazionale cui hanno preso parte 700 ricercatori da tutte le parti del mondo (vedi sotto).

Si tratta di un progetto su una tema posto dal gruppo Nokia denominato Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012 . Al di la' del premio in denaro e del contratto di partnership guadagnato da Manlio con la Nokia, vi e' la profonda convinzione come ho detto, o quasi gridato, ieri in consiglio che i nostri giovani sono validissimi ma privi di reali opportunita' qui a Catania: lasciano il DFA e l'Italia.

Manlio ha adesso un contratto triennale alla School of Computer Science della University of Birmingham (UK). I tre coautori del paper sono Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi, tutti 100 % italiani e tutti 100 % University of Birmingham.

Questo e' il link al paper che e' risultato vincitore della Nokia Mobile Data Challenge:http://research.nokia.com/files/public/mdc-final306_dedomenico.pdf

ed a seguire il testo del comunicato stampa:

"...Around 700 researchers from all over the world (Asia 23%, USA 22%, Europe 51% and others 4%) have taken part in the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge 2012 and each project differed in its approach to the data, or looked at it from a different angle. Many leading universities in the field were involved with the challenge. ... An important aspect of the MDC, says Juha, was using the data for predictive purposes.

“If the device is going to know in advance what the user is going to do next, then the phone can recommend something that you might need next or it can give you some options, which are most likely highly relevant for you,” he says.

This predictive capability was key to one of the winning MDC papers, Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions (URL:http://research.nokia.com/files/public/mdc-final306_dedomenico.pdf), announced at the Pervasive Conference in Newcastle, UK, yesterday.

This paper, from the University of Birmingham (Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi), found that you could improve the predictive accuracy of where someone was going next if you also looked at the mobility information of his or her social group.

Other research papers and materials can also be found on the MDC website (URL:http://research.nokia.com/page/12000).

More statistics about the challenge: http://research.nokia.com/page/12174

Source: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/20/mobile-data-challenge-2012-unlocking-the-secrets-of-smartphone-data/"

Questo e' l'indirizzo della web page di Manlio : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~dedomenm/

Cordiali saluti e complimenti vivissimi a Manlio, con l'augurio di ulteriori straordinari successi nella sua carriera!