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…
Ana Sara Costa receives Doctoral Dissertation Award
Ana Sara Costa, an early career researcher who finished her PhD in Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico in 2020 (supervised by Professor José Figueira from CEG-IST and Professor José Borbinha from INESC-ID) has recently received the Doctoral Dissertation award at the 26th International…
Tell me what your proteome is and I’ll tell you what you are: the proteomic maps of 949 human cancer cell lines
Emanuel Gonçalves — INESC-ID Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability (ARSR) computational biology researcher — has published a groundbreaking study in the journal Cancer Cell (published online 14 July 2022). In the article Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines, the last study resulting from…
Isabel Trancoso featured in “90 Segundos de Ciência” radio program
Isabel Trancoso has been featured in 90 Segundos de Ciência, a popular science radio program broadcast by Antena 1 and co-produced by the radio station, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA) and Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH NOVA). In…