Tg Mondo Hi-Tech, edition of 17 May 2024

We talk about CIE and PA digitalization, oceanographic 'sentinels', hypersonic threats

DIGITALIZATION, 23 MLN ACCESS TO SERVICES PA SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR

Digitisation? It’s already there, or rather ‘Cie already’. Last March 19th, the institutional communication campaign of the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers was launched to promote the use of the Electronic Identity Card (CIE) as a tool for accessing services in a simple and above all safe way. digital systems of the Public Administration. The results were positive: almost 17 and a half million downloads of the Cie Id app. At the same time, there were almost 5.5 million activations of the app for an increase of 13% in the on-air period of the campaign. The comparison with the devices active in April 2023 marks a significant +55% of Cie ID activations. “The results of the ‘Cie already’ campaign are encouraging – declares the Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for Technological Innovation Alessio Butti – and demonstrate an increasing use of the 44 million Electronic Identity Cards issued”. The confirmation, he concludes, “also comes from the 23 million accesses to the PA portals in the first 4 months of the year”.

MOBILE ‘SENTINEL’ PROJECT FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

A mobile ‘sentinel’ that brings oceanographic scientific research directly to the field and transforms the sea into a laboratory. It is with this objective that Ispra has launched, as part of the Marine Ecosystem Restoration (Mer) project, financed by the Pnrr, a Mobile Oceanographic Research Unit, a sort of ‘van’ unique in its kind in Europe to monitor the state of the sea, surface currents and bathymetry, i.e. the measurement of the depth of the coastal seabed, using a ‘Wave radar’. The data is extremely useful for understanding the causes and effects of erosion and the interactions of waves with coastal infrastructure but will also allow us to detect and track reflective targets on the sea surface, such as the presence of spills, and to monitor aggregations of floating waste.

STUDY AGAINST HYPERSONIC THREATS START-STARTS

MBDA – the main European consortium manufacturing missiles and defense technologies – has signed an agreement with the Joint Organization for Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) to carry out a study and evaluation of an interceptor for defense against hypersonic threats. In July 2023, the European Commission selected the project for financing and the Governments of France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands decided to contribute to the fund. The signature between MBDA and Occar therefore marks the beginning of a three-year investigation phase whose objective is the selection of the most suitable and effective anti-hypersonic and anti-ballistic concept with the related weapon system architecture, creating a joint definition of each threat based on the knowledge and skills of all partners involved. The goal is to aim for an entry into service date around 2035.

JAPAN, AI LINGUISTIC MODEL WITH FUGAKU SUPERCOMPUTER

The team of researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the research and development division of the technological giant Fujitsu, announced that they have developed the first language model for generative Artificial Intelligence using the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku. Researchers from Tohoku University, Nagoya University, the government institute Riken and the companies CyberAgent and Kotoba Technologies also contributed to the research, which began in May 2023. “Unlike most other models with Japanese language capabilities, which use continuous learning, the Fugaku-Llm system, superior to others in transparency and security, is trained from scratch using the team’s data so that the entire learning process can be understood”, we read in the presentation of the research data.