INESC-ID student Catarina Botelho wins “3 Minutos de Tese”
Catarina Botelho has been crowned winner of the first ever edition of 3 Minutos de Tese at the University of Lisbon. A PhD student in the INESC-ID Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Catarina won 1st place in yesterday’s live…
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…