Results

WLAB will receive an honorable mention (menzione di merito) at  Premio Nazionale Innovazione nei Servizi 2010 organized by Confecommercio,  for its innovative solution regarding a touch-based shopping service based on the NFC technology.  WLAB representative will be received the 8th of June by the President  of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano during the prize ceremony.

ARTEMISIA is the association for R&D actors in ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
Andrea Vitaletti has been elected in the ARTEMISIA Steering Board as CHAMBER A (Small & Medium Enterprise) representative.

WLAB wins the BONDI widget competition. A panel of mobile industry judges with the $5000 top prize being awarded to the bike sharing application, submitted by WLAB and developed by Lorenzo Bergamini, Ugo Colesanti, Anton Fedosov and Luca Filipponi. “We were very pleased by the creativity of the developers who entered our competition and were delighted to have submissions from all over the world,” said Tim Raby, Managing Director OMTP “The winning BONDI widgets were selected based upon their usability and functionality. Due to its truly open environment we look forward to seeing many more widgets being developed as BONDI continues to progress throughout 2010.”

WLAB application SONPRI (SOcial Network with PRIvacy) has been selected among the 50 project (out of 103) accessing the development phase at SIMAGINE 2010. SONPRI has been developed in cooperation with SAPIENZA  University of Rome. It is a fully decentralized approach for recommending new friendships and contacts in the social network of mobile phone users. With respect to existing solutions, our approach is characterized by some distinguishing features. In particular, the application we propose does not assume any centralized coordination: it transparently collects, processes and exchanges with other users information that is accessible in any mobile phone, such as the log of calls, possibly enriched with user's profile.  This information is used to recommend new friendships to other users. Furthermore, the information needed to perform recommendation is collected and exchanged between users in a privacy preserving way. Finally, information necessary to implement the application is exchanged transparently and opportunistically, by using the residual space in standard short messages occasionally exchanged between users. As a consequence, we do not ask users to change their habits in using SMS.

Roma Tre University graduate Irene Cappiello has been chosen to receive the 2009 Master's Thesis AICA-Confindustria national award. Her work on innovative services and interactions for the Internet of things, conceived and carried out at WLAB, was judged by a panel of experts from industry and academia as being one of six outstanding italian postgraduate theses in the field of ICT during the past year.