Luís Correia at “90 segundos de Ciência”
Luís Correia, researcher at INESC ID, talks about the IRACON project, a European Commission Cost Action. Reducing the communication delay between devices and preparing telecommunication networks for the arrival of 5G is the main objective of this project. “90 segundos de Ciência” is a Antena…
TEDxIST 2018 – Let´s talk about equilibrium
TEDxIST, held every year at the Taguspark Campus, will be on March 3rd. TEDxIST is an event independently organized by a group of students from Instituto Superior Técnico, with support from LAGE2, for the whole IST community.The goal of this event is to transmit…
LxMLS 2018 – 8th Lisbon Machine Learning School
LxMLS 2018 will take place June 14th-21th at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações, the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), Unbabel,…
Champalimaud Foundation visits INESC-ID Taguspark
On January 18th, INESC-ID welcomed Dra. Leonor Beleza (Champalimaud Foundation President), Dr. João Silveira Botelho, (Champalimaud Foundation Vice – President), Dr. Nickolas Papanikolaou ( Head of the Computational Clinical Imaging Group at the Champalimaud Foundation), Dr. José Cruz (Digital Projects Coordinator) and Dr. Pedro Garcia da…
INESC-ID and Paris Descartes University sign collaboration protocol
On January 15th, INESC-ID signed a protocol with Paris Descartes University under UNESCO Chair to promote cooperation in digital anatomy. The protocol, valid for the next five years was signed at Egas Moniz – Cooperativa de Ensino Superior at Monte da Caparica, by the President…
Project IMPRESS: higher software quality through gamification in educational programs
Improving engagement of students in software engineering courses is the goal of this new European Erasmus+ project. The researching team will tackle the problem by introducing gaming elements into software engineering training materials. A series of gamified reusable, and freely accessible multiplayer quizzes will be…
Luís Miguel Silveira: Elected CEDA Vice President Publications
Luís Miguel Silveira (IEEE Fellow and researcher at INESC-ID) was elected Vice-President of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Publications. The Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) was established to foster design automation of electronic circuits and systems at all levels. http://ieee-ceda.org/pages/executive-committee…
SafeCloud: against more powerful adversaries
SSL/TLS communication channels play a very important role in Internet security: it is the “S” in HTTPS. However, there are concerns about the strength of the security mechanisms used in TLS channels, as shown by attacks such as Logjam (https://weakdh.org/) and DROWN (https://drownattack.com/). The European…
Global Game Jam 2018
Carlos Martinho, researcher at the Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters group of INESC-ID, is organizing the Global Game Jam 2018, the world’s largest game jam event with physical locations in 95 countries. During the worldwide event: At each site, participants gather to develop ideas, form…
INESC-ID new management bodies
A new Board of Directors and a new Scientific Council Board were recently elected to the 2018-2019 biennium. The new Board of Directors is composed by: Leonel Sousa, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Luís Correia, Inês Lynce and Jorge Fernandes. The new Scientific Council Board will be led…