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INESC-ID is now involved in three projects in the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, with a total of 5,1M€ financed by the Portuguese Government, through National Innovation Agency (ANI), Portugal 2020, Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science (FCT), and private investment.

The projects GOLEM, IntelligentCare, and MAIA are led by Portuguese companies in collaboration with several institutions, to develop innovative tools in artificial intelligence, internet of things and health, for access to users.

GOLEM is led by OutSystems, in partnership with INESC-ID and NOVA LINCS Institute, from the Nova University of Lisbon and has the long term goal of automating programming and revolutionize the experience of developing applications. In this way, ordinary citizens can create applications suitable for their purposes, without needing to program. 

IntelligentCare aims to manage the presence of two or more chronic diseases (multimorbidity), focused on the patient, personalized and using analytical methodologies. This project will evaluate healthcare delivery through patient reported measures, based on patient risk scores to contribute to hospital resources optimization. IntelligentCare is led by GLSMED LH, which counts on the partnership of INESC-ID, Priberam Informática, IST-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, and Hospital da Luz.

The project MAIA intends to develop a multilingual conversational platform that will allow users to be assisted by AI agents. MAIA is led by Unbabel in colaboration with INESC-ID and Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). 

SureThing is a project funded by FCT, the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research, and technology, running from 1st October 2018 to 30th September 2021. The main goal of the project is to allow for specific devices, incorporated in the provisioning of Internet of Things (IoT) services, to collect proof of their location or ask for proofs from other devices.

The certificates issued using the SureThing framework include location data, obtained and verified using one or more state-of-the-art techniques, which involve locality-sensitive network measurements, using WiFi and Bluetooth fingerprinting, and ambience sensing.

To disseminate the intermediate results of this project, the SureThing team organized the “Advances in Internet of Things and Location” workshop, that took place at Hotel Roma, in Lisbon on January 10^th. One of the highlights of the event was a presentation by Prof. Joshua Siegel (Michigan State University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology) about Deep Technologies and IoT innovations related to the Internet of Things at large, and Location Based Services (LBS).

 

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The latest results from the project were also presented in detail. The presentation slides of the event can be found at: http://surething.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/workshop/

INESC-ID is one of the 10 European research institutions and companies that participate in the project EPEEC: European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers.
This project, coordinated by Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion, runs from 1st October 2018 to 30th September 2021, with a €3,9 million budget.

With partners from Germany, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, the project goal is to “develop and deploy a production-ready parallel programming environment that turns upcoming overwhelmingly-heterogeneous exascale supercomputers into manageable platforms for domain application developers”.

You can find more information about this project here.

According to a Building Global Innovators’ ranking, which includes companies founded between 2013 and 2018, Heartgenetics and Petsys are at the top 25 Portuguese Scaleup. Unbabel, that has a close relationship with us, is also mentioned in the list.

Read the complete article here and find out who are the 25 selected companies.

In recognition of the distinguished service and professional merit, the Scientific Council of INESC-ID has conferred the title of Emeritus Researcher to José Tribolet.

The recognition took place at Amphitheater Abreu Faro, at Instituto Superior Técnico, on 13 January 2020.

INESC-ID has a new Board of Directors, for the biennium 2020-2021, composed by Inês Lynce (Chairman), João Paulo Carvalho, Jorge Fernandes, Rodrigo Rodrigues, and José Pimentel.

Remains in the coordination of the Scientific Council: Isabel Trancoso, Paolo Romano and Vasco Manquinho.

Researchers António Rito Silva and Duarte Oliveira were awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference On Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2019) for their paper entitled ‘Social Media Aware Virtual Editions For The Book of Disquiet’.

Our annual Christmas gathering took place yesterday at the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico. Professor Arlindo Oliveira was our invited speaker for this special moment, with a lecture about the future of humanity.

The INESC-ID 2019 awards were also presented in this event in the following categories:

PhD student: Naércio Magaia

Junior Researcher: Sergio Jimenez

Researcher: Ana Paiva

More info about the nominees can be seen here.

This event is simultaneously the wrap up of the institutional 20^th anniversary.

We are truly proud to announce that Guilherme Paraíso, Junior Researcher from INESC-ID from the research line “Sustainable Energy Systems”, received REN 2nd Prize for his Master’s thesis entitled “Design of Control Strategies for Low Voltage DC Residential Grids”.

The REN award is attributed every year, since 1995, to the best Master’s thesis in the area of energy, developed by students from Portuguese universities.