The 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence takes place at IST
The 21st edition of the EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2022) started today at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), taking place until 02 September. The EPIA conference promotes research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among…
Ana Teresa Freitas confirmed as a keynote speaker at ECCB2022
Ana Teresa Freitas — Information & Decision Support Systems (IDSS) researcher at INESC-ID and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico — has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2022). Under the motto “Planetary Health and Biodiversity” and…
Open call for six doctoral research fellowships
INESC-ID is opening a call, starting on November 15 2022, for the attribution of six Research Grants for Doctoral Degrees in the scientific areas listed below, under the FCT Research Grant Regulation (RBI) and the Statute of the Scholarship Holder of Research (EBI). The impact…
Miguel Won featured in Expresso and Público
INESC-ID researcher Miguel Won has been featured in the Portuguese newspapers Expresso and Público. In the opinion piece Dar gás a Ventura e tirá-lo de Putin (written by the Universidade do Minho economics professor Luís Aguiar-Correia) and the feature Quanto mais se diz mal de…
CORTIVIS: Visual Neuroprosthesis for the Blind featured in “110 Histórias, 110 Objetos” podcast
ELONICA, an interactive demonstrator for the CORTIVIS project, has been featured in the Instituto Superior Técnico podcast “110 Histórias, 110 Objetos”. CORTIVIS — Cortical Visual Neuroprosthesis for the Blind — is a European venture that ran between 2001 and 2004, involving INESC-ID researchers Leonel Sousa…
INESC-ID awarded close to €1 million in FCT research funding
INESC-ID has been awarded shy of one million euros in FCT funding from the latest call for research projects, in a spread of Research, Development and Innovation corresponding to over a quarter of the successfully-funded projects across its two relevant evaluation panels. On 27 July…
NEWS-ID will be back in September!
NEWS-ID, our monthly newsletter, will be back in September! 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 electrical and computer engineering….
New prize established by INESC and Público will recognize young talents in ICT
INESC and the Portuguese newspaper Público have established a new award — Vencer o Adamastor (roughly translating to “Beating Adamastor”, a reference to the mythical stone giant who guarded maritime passage through the Cape of Good Hope and is featured in Luis de Camões’ Os…
First quantum communication network segment in Portugal approved for implementation
PTQCI is the name of the national application for the implementation of the first segment of a quantum communication network in Portugal, submitted in March 2022 and recently approved, through a consortium that includes relevant Portuguese organizations in the area of Technology and Security, belonging…
“Treme-treme” recognized as a Best Practice by ObservIST 2022
Treme-treme — an educational game that engages children aged 7 to 9 years-old with seismic risk — has been recognized as one of twenty best practices by the 7th edition of ObservIST (which aims to identify and disseminate best practices at Instituto Superior Técnico). Developed…