Speakers: Alessandro Diano, Carlo Martinucci
10 Aprile 2026 | 11:30
DEIB - NECSTLab Meeting Room (Ed. 20)
Online by Zoom
Contatti: Prof. Marco Santambrogio
Sommario
On Friday, April 10th, 2026, we will have a new talk for the series #NECSTFridayTalk.During this talk, we will have, as speakers, Alessandro Diano and Carlo Martinucci, co-founders of Unbubble News.
Social media algorithms systematically reward outrage and division, shaping how millions of people understand the world. But building tools to counteract this is itself a hard problem, technically, epistemologically, and ethically. In this talk I'll introduce Unbubble Hub (https://github.com/UnbubbleHub), an open research community that provides a space for researcher and engineer to come together and collaborate in developing tools to fight social polarization. The goal is to help people form their own judgment not by promoting "correct" opinions, but by fostering meaningful, conscious disagreement, encouraging a plurality of perspectives.
I'll start with a brief overview of the mission and trajectory of Unbubble News (https://www.unbubble.news), the startup from which the Hub originated, to give context on the problem space and the design choices we've made. The core of the talk will focus on the technologies we are building within the Hub. I'll discuss the technical architecture, the role of large language models in the pipeline, and the open challenges we face. The session will close with a look at ongoing projects and open problems where collaboration from the research community can make a concrete difference.
The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures.
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Every week, the “NECSTFridayTalk” invites researchers, professionals or entrepreneurs to share their work experiences and projects they are implementing in the “Computing Systems”.