Feb. 26 Professor Paolo Ferragina, professor of algorithms at the Department of Computer Science and Vice Director for Applied Research and Innovation of the University of Pisa, was awarded the prestigious “Google Faculty Research Award 2013″ for the financing of innovative ICT research projects. The Google Award website reports that said prize exists “to support the work of excellent researchers in the best universities in the world.” As stated on the website of the University of Pisa, the project presented by Professor Ferragina, entitled “A novel graph for social-network analysis and search built by entity annotators, and its applications”, is the natural continuation of another project presented in December 2010, for which he had already received a “Google Award”.
