Lusa e Inesc-ID convidam cidadãos a apoiar construção de ferramenta contra desinformação
A agência Lusa e o Inesc-ID convidam os cidadãos a participarem na construção de uma ferramenta que ajudará a combater a desinformação, através da resposta a um inquérito para aferir a perceção sobre credibilidade dos conteúdos noticiosos. O inquérito, que está disponível em http://inforadar.inesc-id.pt/inquerito/#artigo, é…
Project to develop quantum communication networks for European Defence
The project “Disruptive SDN secure communications for European Defence” (DISCRETION) was one of the 26 projects selected by the European Commission under the 2020 call of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP). The DISCRETION proposal, in which Professors Ricardo Chaves, researcher at INESC-ID, and…
Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text at SwissText2021
A group of researchers from INESC-ID, in partnership with Unbabel, are one of the winning teams of the Shared Task “Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction” at SwissText2021. “This was a very competitive and in the end we are really pleased to be one of the…
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…
INESC-ID researchers are among the best scientists in the world in the field of Computer Science
5 INESC-ID researchers are among the world’s top computer scientists, according to the 7th edition of Top Scientists Ranking for Computer Science & Electronics, released by Guide2Research. Once again, the highest number of Portuguese scientists is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico. Among the 24 Portuguese…
José Teixeira de Sousa was elevated to IEEE Senior member
IEEE recently elevated José Teixeira de Sousa to Senior Member of the organization, an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. “Being…
HATE COVID-19.PT: a project that will automatically detect online hate speech in Portuguese
Direct verbal insults. Offensive and insulting words with intent to depreciate. Physical threats to the lives of others or their families. Statistics show that Covid-19 has led to an increase in hate speech. Several European and international institutions have issued recommendations on combating racism, xenophobia…
Alberto Abad was elevated to senior member of IEEE
According to IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, “Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession”. “It’s an honor for me to receive such a recognition from IEEE. The area of human language technologies…
SparCity: the new collaborative project to create a supercomputing framework
SparCity, a new EuroHPC Joint Undertaking project, was launched. The project aims to build a sustainable exascale ecosystem and increasing Europe’s competitiveness. The project involves six player organisations in the area of high-performance computing from Portugal, Germany, Norway and Turkey. Recently funded by the European…
11th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
LxMLS 2021 will take place July 7th to July 15th in online format (via zoom and slack). It is organized jointly by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal, the Instituto de Telecomunicações, the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e…
