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…
The April 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The April 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…
The 2022 INESC-ID Annual Report is out!
The 2022 INESC-ID Annual Report is out! Our newly re-designed report, published in Portuguese, features all the details and relevant data that tell the story of the innovative and forward-facing Information and Communications Technologies research environment that INESC-ID is. You can download our 2022 Annual…
Diogo Nunes featured in Público’s article series by PhD students
What can a computational analysis of the language of pain tell us about the lived experience of chronic pain? Diogo Nunes, a PhD student at INESC-ID’s Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area and Instituto Superior Técnico, tells us a great many things about his doctoral…