Marco Roccetti - Professor of Computer Science

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• A recent interview with Prof M. Roccetti on CarInsuranceQuotes.com
  
  
  
  
• Two different projects which I lead recently have been featured by mainstream media, both worldwide and nationwide. Here follow the titles, along with some few (among the many) links and pictures of the projects that most have attracted the interest of newspapers, blogs, TVs and radio stations.



• Talking Cars
  This project is a joint work with Gustavo Marfia and Alessandro Amoroso. It was focused on applying Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) to highways safety. The scenario of use is as follows: when an accident occurs, involved vehicles equipped with WiFi or 802.11p wireless interfaces try to forward an alert message to all approaching cars. While a plethora of proposals exist to fulfill this task, we advanced significantly the state of the art by devising a new software mechanism that can optimally propagate alert messages to approaching vehicles, very fast and farthest away, under realistic propagation scenarios. We have just carried out (Aug 2011) field trials on real highways in Los Angeles where in many cases alert messages reached vehicles that were at a distance of over 12 miles from the vehicle that sent the initial alert, only taking fractions of seconds. This has confirmed our initial finding that, adopting such mechanism, the number of vehicles involved in a pile-up can greatly be reduced.



• For further reading: ``Going Realistic and Optimal: A Distributed Multi-Hop Broadcast Algorithm for Vehicular Safety''.



• A few (links to) articles that appeared online:
  
  Wired.it, Discovery News, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, ANSA, Il Resto del Carlino, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, BBC, Apogeonline, Wall Street Journal Europe Tech Blog, Discovery News, Sky News, Daily Mail, International Business Times, The Times of India, Daily India, BBC Mundo.

• Tortellino X-Perience
  Tortellino X-Perience is a joint work with Gustavo Marfia, Marco Zanichelli (Ondecomunicazione), the media company Articolture and a group of talented computer science undergraduate students of the University of Bologna. It amounts to a gestural game designed for exhibitions in public spaces with the aim of teaching, while playing, the art of preparing an authentic Tortellino (pasta dumpling) of Bologna. The game is based on an advanced gestural interface that recognizes movements and actions performed by a player's hands. It has been exhibited and enjoyed by visitors at the University of Bologna stand at the Shanghai World Expo in October 2010 and during a public performance at the Cantina Bentivoglio restaurant in Bologna in June 2011.



• For further reading: ``The Art and Craft of Making the Tortellino: Playing with a Digital Gesture Recognizer for Preparing Pasta Culinary Recipes''.



• A few (links to) articles that appeared online:
  
  BBC, Deutsche Welle, New Scientist, Examiner.com, BBC Brasil, El Nacional , Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Resto del Carlino.