The July 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The July 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! 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…
INESC-ID researcher Francisco C. Santos elected vice-president of FCT
Francisco C. Santos — INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) researcher and Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has been elected as the new vice-president of FCT, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology…
Rui Prada completes his Habilitation in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada — INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has today successfully completed his Habilitation (Agregação) in Computer Science and Engineering….
HATE COVID-19.PT: Detecting hate speech in social media
A few weeks ago, the team that brought the FCT-funded HATE COVID-19.PT project to life met at INESC-ID. Since May 2021, HATE COVID-19.PT has developed methods for semi-automatically creating a large-scale Portuguese annotated corpus covering online hate speech, while exploring how the information in that…
Two robots walk into a bar: the AGENTS project is featured in Público
Automatic generation of humor for social robots (AGENTS) — an FCT- and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Portugal-funded project — has been featured in the Portuguese newspaper Público. Based at INESC-ID and ISCTE and coordinated by Ana Paiva, researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People…
Inês Lynce featured in Artificial Intelligence podcast
Inês Lynce — President of INESC-ID, as well as researcher within the Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability (ARSR) Research Area, Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and co-director of the CMU Portugal Program — has been featured in Gato de Schrödinger (“Schrödinger’s cat”), Exame Informática‘s…
The June 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The June 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! 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…
RiverCure: a new paradigm in flood modelling and simulation
The second RiverCure workshop took place on 02 June 2022 at Instituto Superior Técnico, signaling the close of this four-year FCT-funded project that brought together INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico and Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA). The workshop included an overview of the RiverCure project and…
Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence at EPIA’22
EPIA 2022 is currently inviting submissions to its Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a paper submission deadline of 15 June 2022. The EPIA Conference on AI is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 21st edition of the EPIA conference…
EV4EU launches today!
EV4EU launches today, 01 June 2022! With a duration of four years, EV4EU is funded by the European Union in 9-million euros through Horizon Europe, the new research and innovation programme for the period 2021-2027. Studies indicate that the massive use of electric vehicles will…