Looking at life in context: computational biology and artificial intelligence break new ground
Earlier this year, EMBL – the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, a collaborator in some of INESC-ID’s research programs, including OLISSIPO – launched its new strategic programme for 2022-2026, Molecules to Ecosystems, calling it “a new era for European molecular biology”, under which EMBL proposes to…
The fifth issue of Faraday News is out
The fifth issue of Faraday News — a publication of Instituto Superior Técnico’s Faraday Museum — is out. Co-edited and co-coordinated by Moisés Piedade (INESC-ID Emeritus Researcher and retired IST Full Professor Moisés Piedade), Faraday News is packed full of content on electrical engineering and…
The April 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The April 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! Containing recent news from our researchers and their projects, open positions and some extra bits of content, our monthly newsletter is a great one-stop spot for great content on computer science and…
NeuralShift: spinning-off artificial intelligence
Founded in 2021 out of questions asked and ideas raised during Miguel Freire‘s and Alexandre Borges‘ masters theses (both researched at INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico), NeuralShift is a new company that develops last-gen artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to build products tailored to companies’ specific…
INESC-ID welcomes EMBL Olissipo researchers
The INESC-ID Olissipo team received some of the members of the EMBL team this week. This Staff Exchange included scientific presentations by both teams, as well as teamwork sessions and space to reflect on the future directions of this project. Coordinated by Susana Vinga –…
José Tribolet delivers talk “Sobre o Ordenamento e a Segurança do Espaço Virtual”
Founder and ex-President of INESC (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores), and Instituto Superior Técnico Emeritus Professor José Tribolet, will deliver a talk titled “Sobre o Ordenamento e a Segurança do Espaço Virtual” on 06 April 2022 at 5pm. This talk will be delivered…
Climate change and cooperation: INESC-ID researcher authors a new chapter
Francisco C. Santos — INESC-ID researcher and Coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) Research Area, as well as Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has co-authored a chapter titled Acção climática e…
Picture a building: algorithmic design in architectural representation
What does a line of computer code have in common with a brick — or a wall, or a window? According to the latest computational techniques applied to architecture, a lot. In her paper Digital representation methods: The case of algorithmic design (recently published in…
INESC-ID researchers recognized in Research.com rankings
Several INESC-ID researchers have recently been recognized across multiple thematic Research.Com rankings, both nationally and internationally. In the fields of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering we find a number of INESC-ID researchers: Ana Paiva, Joaquim Jorge, Miguel Pupo Correia, Luís Rodrigues, Rodrigo Rodrigues,…
ISTSAT-1: the first satellite fully developed in Portugal will be in space in 2022
ISTSAT-1 — the first nanosatellite to be fully developed, from scratch, in Portugal — is set to be launched from the Ariane 6 rocket later this year. ISTSAT-1 has been developed by researchers and students from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), including Moisés Piedade (retired full…