In March this year, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) attributed the Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award to our former fellow Catarina Belém, in the category Young Alumni.
This prize rewards, annually, since 2016, two women graduated at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Congratulations Catarina Belém!
Afonso Botelho, a student from Instituto Superior Ténico (IST), who did his thesis in collaboration within INESC-ID and DEIMOS Engenharia, is one of the winning authors from the 2019 edition of Professor Luís Vidigal Award.
Titled “Design and Application of Thrust Manoeuvres in a Constrained Spacecraft Rendezvous Context Using Optimal Control Techniques”, this thesis was guided by Prof. João Miranda Lemos, from INESC-ID and IST and Engr. Baltazar Parreira, from Deimos Engenharia.
The Professor Luís Vidigal Award is an annual prize that distinguishes the author of one Master’s Dissertations that bring together the best scientific characteristics, of innovative and quality, with themes within the scientific areas of Electrical Engineering, Informatics and Computers.
Congratulations to Afonso Botelho for this distinction, to all the nominees and also Simão Nava de Moraes Sarmento, from IST, who also won this award.
In view of the current situation of COVID-19, INESC-ID took preventive measures, which include the cancellation of all missions and the teleworking regime by default.
We appreciate everyone’s understanding and will be updating this information.
This month completes 3 years since the Faraday Museum opening, on February 6, 2017.
The museum was created by Professor Moisés Piedade, INESC-ID researcher, and professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
The museum, located at Instituto Superior Técnico, is divided into three main areas: Instrumentation and Writing; Audio, Radio and TV, and Communication.
Faraday Museum presents furniture and equipment of historic character, with more than 800 pieces from the 19th to 21st century, in the scientific areas of Electronics, Energy, and Computers.
With the three years since opening, it was launched a bi-monthly newspaper, Faraday News, that could be read here.
Currently, at Faraday, and until February 28th, it is possible to see the “Walkmanlândia”, a temporary exhibition dedicated to Walkman, which counts with a collection from Professor and Museum Director, Moisés Piedade, in along with Faraday voluntaries.
INESC-ID is delighted to welcome his 20 newest researchers, with fellowships from Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science (FCT) and recent research projects hiring.
We are glad to welcome these young and dynamic researchers in the INESC-ID team!
Meet some of our newest researchers.
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 10th. 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).
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.