The winner of the public examination for the research assistant (assegnista) position within the MindSee project  described here is Simone Zanoni. The formal decision document is appended below. 

E’ indetta una selezione per il conferimento di n. 1 assegno per lo svolgimento di attività di ricerca nell’ambito del progetto dal titolo: “MindSee. Symbiotic mind-computer interaction for information seeking” da svolgersi presso il Centro Interdipartimentale Human Inspired Technologies Research Centre-Hit, sotto la supervisione del Prof. Luciano Gamberini, in qualità di responsabile scientifico del progetto di ricerca.Il testo del bando è scaricabile qui

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Donald Norman, co-director of the Design Lab at the UCSD, co-founder of the highly reputed consultancy company Nielsen-Norman Group and author of seminal books such as 'The design of everyday things' will give a talk during a celebration event to be held on June 17th at 14:30, 20 years since he received the laurea honoris causa from the University of Padua. The event will take place in the Sala dei Giganti room, corte Arco Valaresso 7 (contiguous to piazza Capitaniato). More info available here. 

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David Winter is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Programme Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, U.K., will give a talk on May 26th at 14:30 at Departmento of General Psychology, via Venezia 8, Padova (Aula Nusatti). info available here.

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The Smart Community Prize at SMAU 2015 in Padova was granted on April 2 2015 to the european project CultAR, developing augmented reality solutions to improve the experience of urban cultural heritage. The award was received by Luciano gamberini and shared with his team involved in the project (Anna Spagnolli, Valeria Orso, Alessandro Privitera). Below is a picture of the award cerimony in Padua.A video of the event is available from https://new.livestream.com/triwu2/events/3917590.

The SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group of Prof. Mauro Conti (HIT - Human Inspired Technology Research Centre) has been awarded with several prizes for the best 2014 MSc thesis in Computer Security from the CLUSIT - Italian Association for Computer Security: Claudio Guarisco won the 1st prize, Giuseppe Cascavilla the 3rd prize, and finally, Sebastiano Gottardo, Giulia Mosca and Riccardo Spolaor (currently PhD student in Brain, Mind & Computer Science PhD School of the HIT) won the 5th prize.