After a very successful first edition in 2024, the INESC-ID PhD Student Community dedicated the morning of September 24 to their second Annual Meeting, in a room packed with almost fifty people and many activities prompting discussion of relevant themes…
INESC-ID researcher Joaquim Jorge, from the Graphics and Interaction scientific area, has been elected President of the IEEE Computer Society for 2027, after serving on the Society’s Board of Governors and leading multiple initiatives in the field of computing. A…
It was just after 8 a.m. on a sunny Sunday, September 14, and several members of the INESC-ID running group were already warming up, chatting, and sharing laughs near Algés station, a meeting point for thousands of runners and enthusiasts…
Long queues outside corner shops and bakeries. Supermarkets closed. Anxious people carrying gas cylinders, bags of charcoal, batteries, and candles. In an instant, and for several hours, the fast, digital rhythm of 21st-century life was unplugged. The unprecedented Iberian blackout…
“Will artificial intelligence systems of the (near or far) future be capable of creating new knowledge?” is the central question in the most recent opinion article by Arlindo Oliveira*, INESC-ID researcher and professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, published in Público,…
“Is this the end of the science that we need?” That’s the question Luís Caires*, INESC-ID researcher and professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, raises in a recent opinion piece for Público, one of Portugal’s main national newspapers. The article addresses…
INESC-ID PhD student Filipe Altoe, MSc student Sérgio Pinto, and researcher Sofia Pinto, also a Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, are behind a new fact-checking AI model that was recently featured in national media, including Expresso, Observador, and SIC Notícias. …
Can research institutes excel without caring for the wellbeing of their people? It’s increasingly clear that real excellence in R&D+i is not just about brains or breakthroughs, it’s also about the social support systems behind them. With initiatives like the…
Last month, the BIP Meeting Centre, in Brussels, hosted the 2025 INESC Brussels Hub Summer Meeting, which brought together over 200 participants, including researchers, EU policymakers, and industry leaders. From June 25 to 26, the high-level policy and strategy forum,…
Sahar Moradi Cherati, one of our PhD Students in High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) was awarded the “Best Student Paper Award” during the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (Very-large-scale integration). Sahar’s work “MSDF-Based Hardware Accelerators for Energy-Efficient…