João Madeiras Pereira is a new senior member of ACM
João Madeiras Pereira was nominated Senior Member of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery. As mentioned by the Senior Member Committee “we are delighted that you will be among the inductees honored with this designation and wish to congratulate you on this well-deserved recognition”.
INESC-ID President Inês Lynce is also the new National Co-Director of CMU Portugal Program
Inês Lynce was appointed on January 27th as co-director of the CMU Portugal Program by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). The Associate Professor with habilitation at Instituto Superior Técnico and Presidente of INESC-ID assumes the national co-direction of the international partnership alongside Nuno…
IObundle IP at 2020 Design&Reuse top10
IOb-SoC is a System-on-Chip template equipped with a CPU, a memory system and a serial communications module. By democratising the use of CPUs in electronic design, IOb-SoC is at the forefront of enabling powerful AI and machine learning algorithms in all sorts of electronic equipments,…
Alumnus Paulo Martins received the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
Paulo Martins was awarded an honorable mention “Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award”, by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). Paulo Martins finished his PhD in 2019 “Arithmetic and Algorithms for Emerging Cryptography” under the guidance of Leonel Sousa at INESC-ID and currently…
QualiChain: Blockchain for education and employment qualifications
INESC-ID is one of the ten partners of Qualichain, a European project focused on the assessment of the implications at technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural levels of Blockchain technology for verifying education and employment qualifications. Also, QualiChain specifies in the “impact – in terms…
Speech Processing and Machine Learning Workshop
The second training event of the TAPAS Consortium will take place in Lisbon from 11-14 February. This training event will cover four topics related to speech processing and machine learning. Each day will have a morning session with relevant lectures on the topic, followed by…
Candidatura a projetos de IA para a modernização da administração pública
Candidaturas abertas no âmbito do Sistema de Apoio à Transformação Digital da Administração Pública “INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL E CIÊNCIA DOS DADOS” São elegíveis acções de promoção e divulgação de iniciativas com vista à disseminação de melhores práticas e partilha de conhecimento de novas formas de organização…
Armilar and the Tech-Transfer Fund: investing in high-growth tech-based startups
On January 31st at 2.30pm at INESC-ID Alameda (room 336), took place a 30 minutes presentation (plus Q&A) by Armilar Venture Partners. Armilar Venture Partners (formerly known as Espírito Santo Ventures), is an independent VC fund manager of more than 200 million euros of assets, represented…
Best Paper Award at ICGI 2018
André Silvestre won the Best Paper Award for a Young Researcher at the ICGI 2018 conference, with the paper “A Real-Time Terrain Ray-Tracing Engine”, with co-authors João Pereira and Vasco Costa.
“Managing long-term digital information” in Expresso newspaper
INESC-ID Reseacher José Borbinha was interviewed for an article about managing digital information in the long term. This contribution comes in line with his coordination responsibilities in the construction of the European eArchiving Building Block, in the scope of the CEF Programme: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eArchiving https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Digital+Home
Upcoming Events
Mathematics, Physics & Machine Learning Seminar Series (Online)

The Mathematics, Physics & Machine Learning seminar series has started on October 2020 and runs until March 2021.
The seminars aim to bring together mathematicians and physicists interested in machine learning (ML) with ML and AI experts interested in mathematics and physics, with the goal of introducing innovative Mathematics and Physics-inspired techniques in Machine Learning and, reciprocally, applying Machine Learning to problems in Mathematics and Physics.
Attendance is free but registration is required.
More information is available here.
International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

The 27th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2021) will take from August 30 to September 3 2021 in Lisbon.
Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to full-fledged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects.
The 2021 edition of Euro-Par will be organized as a collaboration between INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
Important Dates:
– Abstract Submission: February 5, 2021
– Paper Submission Deadline: February 12, 2021
– Author Notification: April 30, 2021
– Camera-Ready Papers: June 6, 2021
More information is available here.