Author: Aurelia Constantino

  “This is Portugal” is the most recent campaign promoting entrepreneurship and technology, comparing some of the portuguese startups with portuguese history. The innovation in health of our startup HeartGenetics, which is dedicated to keeping people healthy using genetic data, is therefore compared with the…

Most likely, you have heard of the generations of mobile phones, rather than the mobile communications systems that are used by mobile phones. Most likely also, you don’t have a precise idea of the ones that exist and the difference between them. In fact, the…

ISTNANOSAT-1, the nano satellite developed by students and teachers with the collaboration of AMRAD, was integrated into the “Fly your satellite” program of the European Space Agency (ESA). The team, involving researchers from IST, INESC-ID and IT, now comprises a group of six universities from…

MagCyte Team (IST, INESC-ID, INESC-MN, JANZ SA) wins the award “Born From Knowledge” from the National Innovation Agency (ANI), at the i3S-Hovione Capital Health Innovation Prize, for their work in early cancer detection based on a lab-on-Chip that performs a magneto immuno-assay, using a simple…

  The european project RAGE has been short-listed for the Innovation Radar Prize 2017. It is one of 10 innovations which have been selected to compete for the prize in the “Early Stage Innovation” category. The Innovation Radar initiative of DG CONNECT identifies high potential…

André Carvalho, a young researcher supervised by Pável Calado and João Paulo Carvalho, received a Best Student Paper Nomination Award at the EUSFLAT2017 – 10th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, with the paper “Fuzzy Fingerprints for Item-Based Collaborative Filtering”. The…

Last European Researchers’ Night at Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva was a sucess. Sixteen researchers involved, during an eight-hour exhibition. Demos in virtual reality, spoken language systems and sustainable mobility, covering several research areas, like health, education, environment and serious games. programa_NEI 2017

The 3rd International Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction welcomes PhD students and young researchers for an intensive five days of lectures and ateliers covering a wide range of topics in social HRI.The summer school is being held at Vila Nova de Milfontes, at the southwest coast of…

Our researchers from the GAIPS research group are modifying Skyrim characters to add social and intelligence skills to these virtual agents.   https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticias/campus-e-comunidade/aluno-do-tecnico-torna-personagens-de-skyrim-superinteligentes/  

The startup PETsys Electronics, has developed a detector that can identify tumors with a millimeter. Vasco Varela says that they rely on PET technology, which already exists, but make it more sensitive.