Giovanni Simonini

Associate Professor at @unimore_univ

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.

The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.

The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

[VLDB 2026 @VLDBconf]

🎆🎊 Happy New Year, database community! We're kicking off 2025 with exciting news—the first issue of VLDB 2025 (Volume 18) is live!

Dive into the latest in DB research: 🔗 https://t.co/83mDUYiKPk.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🙌

#VLDB2025 #DatabaseResearch

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

https://t.co/lnjn3bcx0A

“Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. We begin by introducing the brain network that supports linguistic ability in humans. We then review evidence for a double dissociation between language and thought, and discuss several properties of language that suggest that it is optimized for communication. We conclude that although the emergence of language has unquestionably transformed human culture, language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought. Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.”

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

These five minutes are worth more than many hours of AI alarmist talk.

[vicki @vboykis]

Neural nets when you ask them to explain even a single output

[Alberto Angela @albertoangela]

Buon viaggio papà.

[Giovanni Simonini @Stravanni]

Check out our paper on how to scale Entity Resolution w/ sup Meta-blocking 📈⚡️

[PVLDB @pvldb]

Vol:15 No:9 → Generalized Supervised Meta-blocking https://t.co/MCVEIbiAXi

[Nicola Ferro @frrncl]

#sebd2022 doctoral consortium: Luca Zecchini on task-driven big data integration and on-demand entity resolution @SEBD_org @sebd2022

[Giovanni Simonini @Stravanni]

Too much data to clean? We are building a tool to clean only the data you need on the fly—here we tackle Entity Resolution

[PVLDB @pvldb]

Vol:15 No:7 → Entity Resolution On-Demand https://t.co/4nKWtckWcL

[PVLDB @pvldb]

Vol:15 No:7 → Entity Resolution On-Demand https://t.co/4nKWtckWcL

[ACM SIGMOD/PODS (@sigmodconf.bsky.social) @SIGMODConf]

More exciting news! The programming contest page is here: https://t.co/hSyTOSzIzt The task: "build a blocking system for entity resolution". Take a look!

[Chu Xu @chu_data_lab]

We are pleased to announce the SIGMOD 2022 programming contest: https://t.co/nZCXEmMehB

The task is blocking for Entity Resolution. More details about this challenge can be found on the contest page. Please refer to the website for contest rules.
@2022Sigmod

[SEBD @SEBD_org]

SEBD Group Photo

[Giovanni Simonini @Stravanni]

The Italian DB conf has started #sebd2021 @SEBD_org

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Pretty damn impressive
Thanks Darren Lu @Reddit

[Giovanni Simonini @Stravanni]

One PhD position in Modena on "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for the enhancement of energy virtuosity", with 3yr scholarship.
DM me if interested. Retweet if not :)
https://t.co/7GrXkVIpte

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Fun fact: in the '40s Alan Turing proposed using gin (yes, the alcohol) for data storage.

He said it had the acoustic properties to replace mercury as the medium for delay line memory, a precursor to RAM.

https://t.co/RaRdVW1kM6

[Juliana Freire @jfreirenet]

ReproZip in action -- used to pack the SIGMOD programming contest submissions @SIGMOD_2021 @ReproFeed @nyuvida @nyutandon #reprozip

[Giovanni Simonini @Stravanni]

#SIGMOD #sigmod2021 programming-contest is over! We asked students from the data management community to solve a challenging Entity Resolution problem. All the finalists surprisingly achieved f-score>.9!!
Finalists here: https://t.co/JJqYw6qCZh
@SIGMOD_2021 @sigmod

[SIGMOD/PODS 2021 @SIGMOD_2021]

SIGMOD 2021 - The early registration deadline is extended to *May 15*. It's free for students! $10 for ACM SIGMOD professional members. $20 for professional non-members. https://t.co/nacDa8DUvx