Las Vegas – A Unimore research was selected as the best paper finalist at the international IEEE conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference held in Las Vegas. The conference brought together scholars from around the world to showcase emerging and innovative research in the field of information technology and consumer applications. The group awarded the coveted prize to a study carried out by Dr. Marco Furini and Dr. Manuela Montangero of Unimore – the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The two researchers devised a mechanism to accurately identify the most influential Twitter users on certain topics. The work was named one of the three best research works out of the 150 presented at the conference. (9Colonne)