Category: Highlights

INESC-ID researchers recently received two awards at CAADRIA 2020.

The presentation “Visual meets Textual: A Hybrid Programming Environment for Algorithmic Design”, co-authored by Renata Castelo-Branco and António Leitão, was distinguished with Best Presentation Award.

The second award, Best Presentation – Runner Up Award, was granted to the presentation “Creativity by Analysis: an algorithmic design system for designing structurally feasible façades”, co-authored by Inês Caetano, Sara Garcia, Inês Pereira, and António Leitão.

25th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2020) was held in August (5-6), live and online.

On October 8, Lisbon will welcome the 2nd of 3 sessions to celebrate INESC’S 40th anniversary. The event will take place at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and will be made available live and online.

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The 13th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’2020) will be held virtually, from 9 to 11 September 2020.

QUATIC is a forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management where practitioners and researchers are encouraged to exchange ideas and approaches on how to adopt a quality culture in ICT process and product improvement and to provide practical studies in varying contexts. 

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World Scientific recently published the 2nd edition of “Principles of Quantum Artificial Intelligence: Quantum Problem Solving and Machine Learning”, written by INESC-ID researcher Andreas Wichert.

This book provides an introduction to problem solving, information theory, statistical machine learning, stochastic methods and quantum computation.

The book is available here.

Can machines think?

Arlindo Oliveira is the next guest of “Explain it like I’m 5 – talks at Técnico for children and other curious people of all ages”.

The talk takes place live at Instituto Superior Técnico Facebook, on September 5, at 11am.

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Organized by INESC Brussels Hub, ‘Gender&Diversity Breakfast Webinars’ will take place next week, on September 8, 9 and 11.

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Register here until September 4.

Celebrating INESC’s 40th anniversary, a special programme with three sessions is available to the general public.

Next session will take place on October 8th, at 5 p.m., at Auditório II of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and will be made available online streaming.

Event is free, but a registration is required in order to receive a link.

 

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INESC-ID’s researcher Ricardo Chaves was interviewed for ‘Notícias Magazine’ about facial recognition technology.

This brief interview is focused on the rise of facial recognition technology together with artificial intelligence, and highlights two very important questions: reliability and privacy.

Read the article here.

INESC-ID’s researcher Leonel Sousa recently published in ERCIM News, titled “Can 5G and Machine Learning Replace the Global Positioning System?”.

The article is co-written with João Gante and Gabriel Falcão, from the University of Coimbra.

Read the article here.