We are very proud and satisfied to announce the evaluation of R&D Units that we received from FCT this month. We were classified as excellent in all the evaluation parameters, which distinguish the ‘quality, merit relevance and internationalization of the…
INESC-ID celebrated the 20th anniversary with a special event that took place at Museu do Oriente. The ceremony started with the intervention of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor. We had two special panels discussing both…
It has ended yesterday another edition of Science and Technology Summit, an event that promotes debates in the most varied areas of science, and also, allows an interaction between researchers, companies and the visiting public. We were present in another edition with the exhibition of demos from several INESC-ID research groups: GAIPS, L2F, and VIMMI.
We are proud to announce that our researcher Ana Paiva, from the research group Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters (GAIPS), was elected EurAI Fellow by the EurAI Fellows committee 2019. The EurAi Fellows program was created by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1999, “to recognize individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe.”
The doctoral thesis «From Runtime Failures to Patches: Study of Patch Generation in Production» of our researcher Thomas Durieux was distinguished with the 2nd place of best thesis in France last week. The researcher Thomas is supervised by the Rui Maranhão, from the research group Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS).
The INESC-ID researcher Rui Prada is one of the members of the Socio-Cognitive Systems Journal board editorial. This new journal will be officially launched early in 2020 but they are already accepting submissions in their website. Also, an editorial talking about the topic will be released in Online First very soon.
INESC-ID has been present in Keep in Touch 2019 with the ‘IoT Board for Agriculture Applications’ demo, presented by the researcher João Tagaio. The Internet of Things (IoT) allows the connection of different devices to the internet. Therefore, is possible to obtain a series of data and from them, extract useful information to the final user. However, some challenges emerge in the communication area, in terms of protocols used and in the electronics area, where is necessary to develop chips that present a very low current consumption. In this presentation, it was presented a Real Time Clock (RTC), developed by SiliconGate startup, with consumption in the order of nano ampere. Because of this, the chip is ideal for IoT systems where is necessary to wake up the microcontroller from a sleep state. The Clock when generating an alarm wakes up the microcontroller which in turn reads the sensors data and communicate them through the radio frequency module. The thesis presented also consists of the development of an IoT system to precision agriculture where an RTC is used to wake up the system. The intention is to achieve very low current consumption levels in a way that the system could work with just one battery charge for years.
Fernando Pedro, a former student from GAIPS won the Victor Lesser distinguished dissertation award with the these ‘Reputation Dynamics and the Self-organization of Cooperation’, at AAMAS 2019. Moreover, six members of GAIPS Team, led by the researcher Ana Paiva, presented their work at the international conference, in Montreal, Canada and one of them got nominated for the best paper award.
INESC-ID is one of the ten partners of Qualichain, a European project focused on the assessment of the implications at technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural levels of Blockchain technology for verifying education and employment qualifications. Also, QualiChain specifies in…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly imposing itself on the reality of contemporary societies, although new technological developments come into being every day, this phenomenon is not correspondingly reflected in the public sphere. Considering that it is important to know and discuss this reality, this cycle of debates takes a look at the current applications of artificial intelligence reflecting upon its social implications in a whole range of different areas (ranging from health to privacy, employability and other areas) and the way in which the future can be imagined within this new paradigm. Between April and June, the cycle is divided into three separate moments, each of them a double programme: a debate with several speakers from the academic and business worlds and a conference. 17 APRIL 16:00 Applications with Luísa Coheur, Pedro Bizarro, Milind Tambe 18:30 Applications (The Good and the Bad) with Mário Figueiredo 15 MAY 16:00 Implications with Luís Moniz Pereira, Manuel Dias, Virginia Dignum 18:30 Robot ascension with Martin Ford 05 JUNE 16:00 Speculations with Ana Paiva, André Martins, Arlindo Oliveira 18:30 Artificial intelligence Compatible Human with Stuart Russell Free entry (subject to availability), tickets available on the day from 15:00 at the ticket-office. In portuguese and english with simultaneous translation Live streaming here More information about the event here