Iolanda Leite: the scientist who seeks to build socially competent robots
The INESC-ID and Técnico alumna is an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and she is passionate about robotics. Iolanda Leite has always been interested in Tamagotchis and Furby robots, and how they worked. Nowadays, she is still fascinated by…
Leonel Sousa appointed to the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee
Leonel Sousa, researcher at INESC-ID and professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, was appointed to the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee, and is among the 8 nominees who will be part of the committee responsible for the oversight of the program. “After an excellent experience,…
ILU: A technology to help improve Urban Mobility
INESC-ID is developing a project in partnership with National Civil Engineering Laboratory, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon Municipality), and the major public carriers in the Lisbon metropolitan area with the aim of aligning urban mobility plans with the emerging traffic dynamics. The ILU project (Integrative…
Digital Anatomy: Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality
New book brings together 2 INESC-ID researchers: Joaquim Jorge and Daniel Lopes and other specialists in a unique interdisciplinary work The first book on digital anatomy, written in close cooperation between doctors, anatomists, and computer scientists, addresses Extended Reality applied to Clinical and…
Detecção de COVID-19 a partir de tosse e fala
Projeto de Investigação para detecção da COVID-19 a partir de tosse e fala E se fosse possível saber se alguém está infetado com coronavirus apenas através dos sons que produz a tossir ou ao falar? Graças a algoritmos de Inteligência Artificial, em breve pode tornar-se…
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva was nominated Senior Member of the ACM
The INESC-ID Researcher Alberto Rodrigues da Silva was nominated Senior Member of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery. “This nomination as “ACM Senior Member” is an important recognition mainly from the analysis of my professional career and achievements conducted throughout the last years. This…
Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19 chest X-ray diagnosis
The DeepPathCOVIDx project will allow to develop of a solution that will assist healthcare professionals in the analysis of chest X-ray images. A team of researchers from Técnico and INESC-ID, in collaboration with Hospital da Luz Learning Health, is developing a solution consisting of AI…
COVID-19 detection from coughs and speech
A team of researchers from IST (Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa) and INESC-ID (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento), coordinated by Isabel Trancoso, is developing a new project to explore the possibility of automatically detecting COVID-19 from its…
João Madeiras Pereira is a new senior member of ACM
João Madeiras Pereira was nominated Senior Member of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery. As mentioned by the Senior Member Committee “we are delighted that you will be among the inductees honored with this designation and wish to congratulate you on this well-deserved recognition”.