Category: News

Founder and ex-President of INESC (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores), and Instituto Superior Técnico Emeritus Professor José Tribolet, was interviewed for the RTP3 information programme 360, which aired on 08 February at 9pm Lisbon-time.

Professor Tribolet was invited to comment on the cyberattack that targeted the telecommunications company Vodafone in Portugal early that week. In his interview, Professor Tribolet reminded viewers of the pervasiveness of similar attacks on democracies worldwide, highlighting the importance of individual companies and governments building the relevant cybersecurity infrastructures in a manner that matches the needs of the 21st century.

Security and Privacy is one of the four major Thematic Lines around which INESC-ID’s research and innovation activities take place, spanning over 20 years in this particular area. In recent times, INESC-ID has been particularly active supporting the European Commission, the Portuguese government, public entities and national companies in developing public policies and technological solutions for improving the security and privacy aspects of their presence in the Internet.

The 08 February edition of 360 is available in this link (with Professor Tribolet’s intervention starting at 9:12pm, minute 13′ of this episode).

The February 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out!

Containing recent news from our researchers and their projects, as well as upcoming events, open positions and some extra bits of content, our monthly newsletter is a great one-stop spot for great content on computer science and electrical and computer engineering.

You can subscribe to our monthly newsletter here.

We are happy to announce the next OLISSIPO Twin Seminar on Computational Biology – Protein driven machine learning and network approaches for precision medicine – which will take place online on 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:30 (WEST – Lisbon) / 14:00-15:30 (CEST). This seminar will be delivered by Emanuel Gonçalves (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico) and Pedro Beltrão (ETH Zürich), and chaired by Thomas Naake (EMBL).

OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon – is an international research project funded by the European Commission within its H2020 Research and Innovation programme, and aims to enhance the competences in Computational Biology at INESC-ID and – through its strong link to Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa – to create an international pole of excellence in multi-disciplinary science in Portugal. OLISSIPO is coordinated by Susana Vinga, INESC-ID researcher and member of its Board of Directors, as well as Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.

The Twin Seminars contribute to disseminate the scientific work and expertise of INESC-ID and all the Consortium that includes Inria, ETH Zürich and EMBL. These seminars comprise two short presentations, one researcher from Lisbon and one from a twin international institution working on similar topics in Computational Biology, and are open to anyone interested in computational biology.

For more details on this Twin Seminar, please check out this link.

ZOOM link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/87272445544.

No password or registration will be needed for this session.

Joaquim Jorge, a researcher at INESC-ID’s Graphics and Interaction (GI) group and Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico, has been selected as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, an honor conferred to some of the most accomplished leaders in tech.

Selection as a Distinguished Visitor is highly competitive and is reflective of, according to IEEE, Professor Jorge’s “remarkable contributions to the profession, Computer Society, IEEE and the community in general.” This distinction follows Professor Jorge’s recognition as an ACM Distinguished Speaker since 2015.

The IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program is organized by the IEEE Computer Society, a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization for electronic engineering and electrical engineering.