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
Projects “iLU” and “Data2Help” in the press
INESC-ID Researchers apply artificial intelligence to medical emergencies and mobility. Source: SAPO 24, January 4th, 2019 DN, January 4th, 2019
New Essay on Artificial Intelligence
This new essay by Arlindo Oliveira describes, in an approachable way, what artificial intelligence is and how it relates to human intelligence, as well as possible societal and economic applications and implications. It includes a historical perspective and an analysis of the current state of…
Talks on Model Driven Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Approaches
We want to invite students, teachers, researchers and professionals in the fields of engineering and management to participate in this event that will take place January 18th, between 1PM and 2PM at Pavilhão de Informática II, Sala 0.17, IST Alameda. This series of conversations will…
Evaluation INESC-ID
As Associate Laboratory since 2004, INESC-ID is periodically evaluated by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This status is reserved for research institutions of great merit that have been recognized in external assessments as having the “capacity to cooperate in a stable, competent and…
New H2020 project
Algos and SD research groups will partner with Barcelona Supercomputing Center and several other institutions in this new European project, with 3.9 M funding, to develop and deploy a production-ready parallel programming environment. This will turn future exascale supercomputers, which will be overwhelmingly heterogeneous, into…
First VMCAI Winter School – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
VMCAI Winter School is a winter school on formal methods associated with VMCAI 2019 (VMCAI 2019 – 20th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal on January 9-12, 2019. In the vein of VMCAI, the school is…
INSIDE Project featured in DN Insider Magazine
The latest edition of DN Insider, a Diário de Notícias newspaper supplement, highlighted the world of robots “made in Portugal” and how they will change our lives. Special highlight to INESC-ID project, INSIDE, developed under the CMU Portugal Program and robot “ASTRO”, that explores the benefits that…
Upcoming Events
NII International Internship Programme Presentation and Q&A by Emmanuel Planas
On April 30, Emmanuel Planas, the acting director of the Global Liaison Office (GLO) and responsible for the internationalisation program at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, will give a presentation to introduce the NII and its internship program to INESC-ID students and IST’s Master’s in Computer Science students.
Date & Time: April 30, 14h00
Where: Sala Polivalente, Técnico – Taguspark
“The NII International Internship Program is an exchange activity with students from institutions with which NII has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement. This incentive program aims at giving interns the opportunity for professional and personal development by engaging in research activities under the guidance and supervision of NII researchers.
The NII Internship Program is open to Research Master’s and PhD students who are currently enrolled at one of the partner institutions that have signed an MOU agreement with NII.”
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”