Ana Teresa Freitas receives 2023-2024 Fulbright Portugal Award
Ana Teresa Freitas has been named one of this year’s Fulbrighters by the Fulbright Portugal Program. A researcher in the Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS) INESC-ID research area, as well as strategic coordinator of the Life and Health Technology thematic line, and Full Professor…
INESC-ID researchers @Gulbenkian: “Inteligência Artificial: Que Humanidade?”
INESC-ID researchers and Instituto Superior Técnico Professors Arlindo Oliveira and Isabel Trancoso will participate in a two-hour conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Taking place on 29 May 2023 at 5pm, Inteligência Artificial: Que Humanidade? (“Artificial Intelligence: What Humanity?”)…
Computational biology and the future of medicine: OLISSIPO collaborates with “Isto é Matemática”
OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon, an international Horizon 2020-funded project coordinated by INESC-ID, has recently collaborated in the production of the TV program Isto é Matemática (“This is Math”). In episode 6 of the currently running season of the program,…
INESC-ID researcher Luísa Coheur recognized with Excellence in Teaching Award
Luísa Coheur has been recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award by the Pedagogical Council of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). An Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor Coheur is also a researcher within the Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area…
INESC-ID takes part in new Horizon Europe Project SYCLOPS
Eight leading European organizations join forces to bring together RISC-V and SYCL standards to demonstrate ground-breaking advances in scalability of extreme data analytics via fully-open AI acceleration. The wide-spread adoption of AI has resulted in a market for novel hardware accelerators that can efficiently process…
Two INESC-ID PhD students selected as “3 Minute Thesis” finalists
Two INESC-ID PhD students have been selected as part of the 12-strong group of finalist for the 3 Minutos de Tese (3 Minute Thesis) science communication competition. Catarina Botelho and Diogo Nunes — PhD students in the INESC-ID Human Language Technologies research area — will…
How to generate algorithms: Diogo Vaz featured in Público’s article series by PhD students
Diogo Vaz — a PhD student in the Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS) research area — has published a piece on his research work in the Portuguese newspaper Público (following Diogo Nunes’ recent piece in the same publication). As Diogo recounts, his “work intends…
Girls in ICT Day 2023: GIRLSTEAM @ Taguspark
The Instituto Superior Técnico Taguspark community recently celebrated Girls in ICT Day 2023 on 27 April with GIRLSTEAM 2023, a program of activities and demonstrations for more than 200 primary and secondary school students. Organized to encourage young women to train in STEAM disciplines (that…
In Memoriam: Daniel Charles Ferreira Porto
É com pesar que comunicamos o falecimento do nosso amigo, colega e investigador Daniel Charles Ferreira Porto. Após obter o seu mestrado pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Daniel terminou o doutoramento em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores pelo Instituto Superior Técnico e INESC-ID (na…
The April 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The April 2023 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! You can read it here. 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…
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.”