INESC-ID welcomes ETH Zürich Olissipo researchers
This past week, April 26-29, the INESC-ID Olissipo team received some of the members of the ETH Zürich team, including Professor Niko Beerenwinkel (in addition to members from the Inria team Professors Marie-France Sagot and Ariel Silber). This Staff Exchange included scientific presentations by both…
INESC-ID celebrates the International Girls in ICT Day 2022 with hundreds of students
Today, 28 April 2022, INESC-ID is celebrating the International Girls in ICT Day 2022 by engaging hundreds of students with fun activities on Artificial Intelligence. Set at Pavilhão Casal Vistoso in Areeiro, Lisbon, 9th to 12h grade students from across the country were mobilized in…
INESC Lisboa — Identifying synergies
INESC Lisboa — Synergies, a seminar several months in the making, took place in Lisbon today. In a day packed full of cross-disciplinary talks and poster sessions on Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Microsystems and Nanotechnology and Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies,…
Manuel Lopes completes his “Agregação” in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Manuel Lopes — INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Associate Professor at the Department for Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has today successfully completed his Agregação in Computer Science and Engineering. Across two sessions,…
“Artes e Tecnologia” — Andreas Wichert’s new Art&Technology exhibition at IST
Today, 26 April 2022, a new Art&Technology exhibition is inaugurated. Consisting in a collection of digital paintings authored by Andreas Wichert, INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Professor Auxiliar at Instituto Superior Técnico, “Artes e Tecnologia” (“Arts and…
“Treme-treme” now live at the new earthquake-themed experience “Quake”
Treme-treme — an educational game that engages children aged 7 to 9 years-old with seismic risk — is now live at Quake, the newly inaugurated Lisbon-based experience on the 1755 great Lisbon earthquake. An immersive mix of technology and art, Quake was brought together, amongst…
Looking at life in context: computational biology and artificial intelligence break new ground
Earlier this year, EMBL – the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, a collaborator in some of INESC-ID’s research programs, including OLISSIPO – launched its new strategic programme for 2022-2026, Molecules to Ecosystems, calling it “a new era for European molecular biology”, under which EMBL proposes to…
The fifth issue of Faraday News is out
The fifth issue of Faraday News — a publication of Instituto Superior Técnico’s Faraday Museum — is out. Co-edited and co-coordinated by Moisés Piedade (INESC-ID Emeritus Researcher and retired IST Full Professor Moisés Piedade), Faraday News is packed full of content on electrical engineering and…
The April 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The April 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…
NeuralShift: spinning-off artificial intelligence
Founded in 2021 out of questions asked and ideas raised during Miguel Freire‘s and Alexandre Borges‘ masters theses (both researched at INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico), NeuralShift is a new company that develops last-gen artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to build products tailored to companies’ specific…