The expression of hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in YouTube comments
What’s in a word, and especially one mobilized for online hate speech (OHS)? A team of INESC-ID researchers has asked exactly that. Authored by INESC-ID Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS) researchers Paula Carvalho and Danielle Caled, and Human Language Technologies (HLT) researchers Fernando Batista…
The June 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The June 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…
Professor Arlindo Oliveira presents his new book “Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade”
Professor Arlindo Oliveira presented his new book — Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (the Portuguese title for “Science, Technology and Society”) — yesterday, 26 June 2023, at Sala Âmbito Cultural in El Corte Inglés in Lisbon. President of INESC, Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and…
Maria Inês Conceição wins first place at SIRESP Desafio Inovação 2023
Maria Inês Conceição has won first place at SIRESP Desafio Inovação 2023 (SIRESP Innovation Challenge 2023). Maria Inês was awarded for her project “Lightweight indoor environment mapping using micro aerial vehicles (MAVS)” at the second edition of the SIRESP Tech Days, on 02 June 2023….
Renata Castelo Branco selected for the TNC23 Future Talent Programme
Renata Castelo Branco was one of two Portuguese PhD students selected to take part in the TNC23 Future Talent Programme, which took place earlier this month in Tirana, Albania. Together with João Brandão (a student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto),…
José Borbinha elected to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences
José Borbinha has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. A researcher of the INESC-ID Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS) research area, as well as a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico…
Book presentation: “Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade” by Arlindo Oliveira
Professor Arlindo Oliveira is presenting his new book — Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (Science, Technology and Society) — on 26 June 2023, 6:30pm at El Corte Inglés. Professor Oliveira is President of INESC, Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico as well as a researcher at…
Ana Paiva discusses Artificial Intelligence @ “Sociedade Civil”
Ana Paiva recently participated in RTP’s television program Sociedade Civil. A researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society research area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (as well as the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute), Professor Paiva joined…
INESC-ID researchers receive António Brandão Vasconcelos Award
INESC-ID researchers Rui Prada, Diogo Rato and Pedro M. Fernandes have received the first ever António Brandão Vasconcelos Award. Set up in honour of the founder of the iLLP@Técnico – Innovation Lean LaunchPad, the acceleration programme that became Lab2Market@Tecnico, the António Brandão Vasconcelos Award recognises…
Two new keynotes announced for ISD 2023
Two new keynotes have been announced for ISD 2023: Professor Arlindo Oliveira (IST / University of Lisbon) and Professor Geert Poels (Ghent University). The 31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023) provides a major forum for research and developments in the field of…