New York – A new distinction for Francesco Saverio Pavone, director of the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) of the University of Florence. The Florentine scholar Florentine scholar has been selected internationally to receive the IBM Faculty Award for the second time. This was awarded in 2016 for the joint research group ClicOnLab (LENS / IBM Cognitive Computing Lab) which developed an application for the Galileo Museum. The smartphone app assists the visitor with features based on cognitive computational approaches. The IBM Faculty Award is awarded in the form of donations to universities and research centres to promote collaboration between university researchers and those working in IBM’s research, development and organization sectors. (9Colonne)