Category: Highlights

Andreas Wichert — INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Auxiliary Professor at the Department for Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has today successfully completed his Agregação (Habilitation) in Computer Science and Engineering. Across two sessions,…

Our President and Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability researcher Inês Lynce, Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, spoke to Jornal de Negócios on the myriad uses and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, particularly in ensuring a greener and more sustainable future, prompted by the…

Our Human Language Technologies researcher Luísa Coheur recently took part in a roundtable discussion at Pavilhão do Conhecimento for the International Day of Mathematics, celebrated each year on Pi Day: March 14 — i.e., 3.14. Accompanied by colleagues from ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics…

Ana Paiva has been featured in Ciência Viva’s Mulheres na Ciência (“Women in Science”). Now in its fourth edition, the 2023 volume of Mulheres na Ciência gathers 101 portraits of researchers across fields of knowledge in a beautifully edited book featuring photographic portraits by Alípio…

Arlindo Oliveira — INESC-D researcher, President of INESC and Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico — participated in a radio program for the Portuguese radio network Rádio Renascença where he spoke on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and one of its newest outputs, ChatGPT. An AI-based chatbot…

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal), supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), will have an OPEN CALL between February 15 and March 31, 2023, under the “Affiliated Ph.D. Programs”. This initiative is addressed to students who wish to study at a Portuguese University with a research period at Carnegie…

Ana Paiva has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). A researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (as well as the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at…

The 2023 INESC Brussels HUB Winter Meeting took place over the past two days, 30 and 31 January 2023, at Instituto Superior Técnico. Co-organized with Science Business (a network that strives to bridge industry, research and policy nationally and at the EU level), the 2023…

Nuno Lopes is one of the winners of the 2022 HiPEAC Tech Transfer Awards. Lopes — a Researcher at the High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) Research Area — was awarded this distinction for Alive2, an automatic compiler verification tool. On winning the award,…