Best Paper Award at ICGI 2018

André Silvestre won the Best Paper Award for a Young Researcher at the ICGI 2018 conference, with the paper “A Real-Time Terrain Ray-Tracing Engine”, with co-authors João Pereira and Vasco Costa.

Article about managing long-term digital information in Expresso newspaper

INESC-ID Reseacher José Borbinha was interviewed for an article about managing digital information in the long term. This contribution comes in line with his coordination responsibilities  in the construction of the European eArchiving Building Block, in the scope of the CEF Programme: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eArchiving https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Digital+Home

New Essay on Artificial Intelligence

This new essay by Arlindo Oliveira describes, in an approachable way, what artificial intelligence is and how it relates to human intelligence, as well as possible societal and economic applications and implications. It includes a historical perspective and an analysis…

New H2020 project

Algos and SD research groups will partner with Barcelona Supercomputing Center and several other institutions in this new European project, with 3.9 M funding, to develop and deploy a production-ready parallel programming environment. This will turn future exascale supercomputers, which…

INSIDE Project featured in DN Insider Magazine

The latest edition of DN Insider, a Diário de Notícias newspaper supplement , highlighted the world of robots “made in Portugal” and how they will change our lives. Special highlight to INESC-ID project, INSIDE, developed under the CMU Portugal Program and robot “ASTRO”, that explores the benefits that the interaction with a heterogeneous network of intelligent devices can bring to the therapy of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Full article and interview of the PI of the INSIDE Project and researcher at INESC-ID, Francisco Melo, available here: https://www.cmuportugal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Notícia-Robôs_DN-Insider_25.11_site.pdf

OPEN DAYS 2018 – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK

What science is done in Portugal? Who are our scientists? How do they work? What do they research? What results do they get? In the scope of the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, INESC-ID ALAMEDA opened its doors on November 23rd…