Francesca Buffa's ERC Funded project combines network analysis, agent based modelling and genomics to understand the workings of cancer, a multifactorial disease evolving in a complex environment.

Computing sciences are contributing to an ongoing process that is breaking down disciplinary barriers among hard sciences and is seeing social sciences and economics to widely adopt methodologies related to computational science and modeling.

A Department has been created at Bocconi to deal with Stem disciplines with a multidisciplinary spirit and to dialogue with the social sciences and economics. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will contribute to innovative research.

Many of the scholars arriving in September work at the boundary between multiple disciplines, where innovation is most vibrant.

Prof. Dirk Hovy suggests a fairer way for automatic translation systems to deal with modern pronouns and advocates technologies that adapt to the users, instead of the opposite