On December 9, ISSNAF's annual virtual event will assign awards in five categories. This year, the focus is on "green" topics, as well as on a new award for innovation in the study of Italian culture. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Silvio Micali, professor at Boston's MIT and among the world's leading experts in cryptography and blockchains. ISSNAF annual event registration link here. Full details at: www.issnaf.org

They develop artificial intelligence systems to fight climate change, build robots for the next NASA missions and look for new ways to cure leukemia. Furthermore, they create infrastructures to bring the Internet to the most disadvantaged communities, and convey, from original and innovative perspectives, Italy's culture, language, literature and cinema, to young people overseas.