PuppTortelFest

Hi verbooty!

This is to remember the wonderful time we (AleC, Farshad, Lusine, Irina, and me) had at the fest of "Pupporina" (a typical biscuit with aniseed) and "Tortelli"(dumplings with meat and tomato sauce).
This is also to wish you all the best for these holidays, whether you will be in Lucca or far away.
I will miss you guys!

P.S.: Thanks to Lusine for the pic.

Matanna Trip

This is a sort of advertisement for those who missed this wonderful trip just to motivate them to have the same trip in another time.

Greetings from Summer Schools

Dear all,

some of you (read AleC) looked angry at me because I have never written a post here.
Some of you (read Binh) looked angry at me because I did not show them the pictures of my last travels.
Some of you (read Lusine and Farshad) looked angry at me because I already presented them the pictures of Bressanone (mountains, mountains, mountains...).
Some of you (read Maddalena and AleB) are enjoying their summer school (have a nice time folks!).
Some of you (read Guido, Michele and Sonia) noticed an empty place in our classroom and thought that maybe there was one more seat (just kidding).
Some professor saw me for the very first time during his last lesson and he (reasonably) asked me "What are you doin' here?".
Some of you (read Michele and Philip) ... I've been missing you, a lot.

Well, I would like to share with you some memories from my summer schools. You will find the pictures at the following URLs:

- http://www.nicholascaporusso.com/wp/?p=153 (Bressanone)

- http://www.nicholascaporusso.com/wp/?p=134 (Bologna)

- http://www.nicholascaporusso.com/wp/?p=151 (addendum to Bologna)I hope you will like the pictures. Also, it is an opportunity to check what the places offer!

Pittance to Researchers

Dear Friends,

I am very scared of the university conditions in Italy.

Our kind mum AiEmTì reports catastrophic news about the academic world. I advise you to follow carefully the press review section in her site.

In particular, this morning I find a very very bad article:

In Bologna, PhD candidates will not receive the upgrade of scholarship amount. Whole article can be find here (it is in italian, but very easy).

So, I hope you don't yet burn your house. :)

Best regards.

Ale

some famous iranians

Lotfi Zadeh (Lotfali Askar Zadeh).
In 1973 he proposed his theory of Fuzzy Logic.










Maria Khorsand.
She is President of Ericsson Technology Licensing.

Pierre Omidyar.
He is founder/chairman of the eBay auction site.







Anousheh Ansari.
She is co-founder and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI).

Bijan Davari.
He is vice president of IBM.

Hossein Eslambolchi.
He was Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer, President of AT&T Labs and President of AT&T Global Network Services of the company.






Omid Kordestani.
He is Google's senior vice president.







Farzad Nazem.
He is Yahoo!'s chief technology officer.







Mahmoud Hessaby.
He was the only Iranian student of Albert Einstein. He received Nobel Prize for physics in 1993.

An italian proverb:
Nessuno è profeta a casa sua.

I took this photo on one day watched Americans practice their play. I don't know the author of this guitar. Anyway, I found it cool.

New directions in data mining

(This is a real story. Main characters begged me to rewrite it. I hope that it could be fine for you. If you feel that it is too crazy or stupid, you can delete it.)

The legend told that if you went to the statue of Juliet in Verona and touched her naked breast, you would get successful in love (!!! I doubt about this or it has another meaning :D). That was what the legend said.
Most of Italian people know about this legend and of course, young IMT researchers know but they do not take it in their minds.
And it would have been so for ever if one day it had not happened the following incident.

After two weeks with difficult exams, A.C was exhausted. One day, he passed the Piazza della Misericordia as usual, suddenly he felt strange.
- What’s that? He thought.
Turned to the direction attracted him, he found a statue of a woman with half naked breast. This kind of statues could be found everywhere in Italy, so it should have not been so strange like that but he did not know why. Next days, he kept going to the statue, observed it for hours but he still could not comprehend the reason that took him to this statue. Then, he decided to urge assistant from his classmates.

Be attracted by A.C’s ads about a naked statue in Lucca, A.B, Michelle, Lusine, Maddalena and Binh (Mai Chi) went to the piazza (how innocent scientists are!!! Really? It is hard to believe.)
- It is a statue. So what? Said Binh.
- Yeah, do you see? She has a naked breast. Answered A.C.
- Yeah, I see. So what? Said Binh.
(She thought how ridiculous these Italian guy were!)
(Oh, an ordinary girl. A.C was bored.)
At the same time, Michelle was angry. Why not? He was really disappointed; he hoped to see a complete naked statue. But what was that? Half naked breast ONLY!
- Ah, Binh, if you touch her naked breast, you can be successful in love. Explained Michelle.
- I don’t need it. Anyway, I don’t believe.
- Yeah, there’s a legend about the statue of Juliet in Verona. That is if you touch her naked breast, you can be successful in love.
- Right. Agreed other Italian guys.
- I will go to Verona. Informed Lusine.
- Yeah, I can have a breast on my body with 2000 euros. Said Michelle.
- Really? Asked surprisingly A.B.
However, Michelle did not answer.
Selfish guy! A.B thought. I will find it out on my own. Ah, if I am lucky, maybe it will open a new direction in data mining such as new model for searching applied in breast service (smile alone). This trip is not useless at all.
- I don’t care. Binh was still stubborn.
- I don’t have porn. IMT blocks the proxy. Explained A.C. (Maybe now we have the answer for his problem!!!)
- Really? Asked both A.B and Michelle. I don’t know. How innocent they are!
- Oh, you have dozens of these real stuffs on TV at night.
- Really? Asked again Michelle, A.B and now A.C. I rarely watch TV in the evening. What’s time for those shows? Eagerly asked.
- I don’t remember. Sempre.
- Ah, capisco.
- And about the legend, I can’t believe. A.C, can you try first and then tell us about its effectiveness?
It seemed to have a light in A.C’s mind. Yeah, exactly. I will make a data set and then mine on its result. If destiny loves me, this would be a new direction in mining research. Haha, now I know the title for my PhD thesis. I’m so lucky. Ah, thanks the statue a lot. And thanks Binh, too.
Those are invaluable scientists whose researches originates from fundamental needs of human beings, for the human beings and because the human beings! TRUE SCIENTISTS!

I am so sorry that I do not have any information from Michelle. Can you guess?