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The 1st Seminar on Video Game Teaching ( 1º SEVj – Seminário sobre Ensino de Videojogos ) took place on September 13 at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra.

The event was organized by the Portuguese Society of Video Game Sciences (SPCV), and the LabTE, from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra.

Our researcher Rui Prada was one of the organizers in collaboration with the mentioned entities.

To bring together the national community who teaches video games and improve the quality of the training in this area, the event counted with the participation of professors from 14 institutes.

Filipa Correia, our researcher from our group GAIPS, receives interdisciplinary research award at 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), which took place in New Delhi, India.
Our researcher Mojgan Hashemian was a representative at RO-MAN 2019 inauguration ceremony.

Congratulations!!!

The radio show ’90 Segundos de Ciência’ interviewed Rodrigo Rodrigues, a researcher at INESC-ID, professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and one of the CMU Portugal National Directors, to learn more about his research on cloud computing and distributed computing systems.

This research has the potential to enable applications that run on cloud platforms to achieve simultaneously good performance by accessing data in a nearby data center, and the correct semantics that one would expect if the data is stored in a single, centralized location. Furthermore, this research also extends the methods that are currently used in Blockchain technologies to cope with the specific characteristics of cloud environments.

This research was awarded an ERC – European Research Council Grant.

 

The interview is available here.

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Perf Servs’s team, composed by Rui Maranhão and Daniel Fortunato, awarded 2nd place at 2019 Qiskit Camp Europe, organized by IBM. The event took place at Zurich in September.

The distinguished team developed a solution that allows doing benchmarking of Qiskit framework, the framework of IBM to develop quantum programs.

 

Congratulations!

Last Friday more than hundred activities celebrated the science and the research at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon and at Jardim do Príncipe Real .

With the topic for the 2019 edition ‘SciCity – Science in the City’, the European Researchers’ Night invited the public to interact with the researchers and participate in activities on the areas of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Human and Social Sciences, Technology, Mathematics, among others.

The INESC-ID participated with three demonstrations in the areas of technology and human and social sciences:

• SureThing: Location Proofs, with the participation of Gabriel Maia, Henrique Santos, Miguel Pardal and Rui Claro.
• eSPERTo – System for Paraphrasing in Editing and Revision of Texts, with the participation of Anabela Barreiro.
• LINA – A Serious Game For Children To Improve Social Relations With Their Peers, with the participation of Diogo Martins.

 

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Know more about the European Researchers’ Night.

WiMeCOM is a Moroccan project funded by the Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN), where INESC-ID is a partner together with the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MAScIR), the Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), the Green Energy Park (GEP) and Tronico Atlas.

The overall objective of the WiMeCOM project is to develop hybrid wireless and wired smart metering solution.

The Communication Networks group of INESC-ID is collaborating specifically on modelling and optimization of a smart metering communication network solution integrating the Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) and Power Line Communication (PLC) technologies.

In the context of this project, INESC-ID hosted Ms Souhaima Stiri (M.Sc.) from MAScIR and INPT, during July 2019.

Her mission was to collaborate with the Researcher António Grilo to integrate the LoRaWAN and PLC models into an optimization framework based on a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm.

This algorithm will be used to find suitable trade-offs between communication quality and the cost of the communications infrastructure. Feedback from real pilot deployments will later be used to refine the model and transform it into a powerful and reliable tool that can be used by Distribution System Operators (DSOs) for deployment planning.

 

More information about the project here.

The 9^th edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning School took place between 11 and 18 July at Instituto Superior Técnico.

LxMLS 2019 was jointly organized by Feedzai, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Priberam Labs and Unbabel.

This summer school is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and receives students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.

Each edition has a demo day which promotes the contact between the students and research groups and companies.

 

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On July 15th and 16th we welcomed the visit of the advisory board members: Srinivas Devadas, Morris Sloman, José Carlos Principe and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. These external advisors advice the institution, providing a performance outlook in which the team regards for its strategy and institution plans.

The advisory board had the opportunity to know the current activities of the several research lines, as well as some demos. The visit ended with a plenary meeting opened to all the INESC-ID researchers.