In a fractured, fast-changing world, Europe is facing urgent questions about security, sustainability and technological sovereignty. At Encontro Ciência 2025, Portugal’s largest annual science and technology gathering, we brought those questions into the room. Held from July 9 to 11…
Last Sunday, June 8, INESC-ID brought AI into the spotlight at the Feira do Livro Lisboa 2025 (Lisbon Book Fair 2025) as researcher Arlindo Oliveira presented his book, “Generative Artificial Intelligence”, at the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos stage. The…
“If I light a match, will it fly too?” Eliane is “seven and a half” years old and has a curious mind that shines through in her sharp questions and wide-eyed wonder. Her inquiry came after Diogo Diniz, a third-year…
Isabel Trancoso, senior researcher at INESC-ID, from Human Language Technologies scientific area, and a leading expert in speech technologies, participated in the Atlantic Dialogues on Technology and Regulation, held on April 3–4 at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. Organized by…
An AI-powered robot dog, a European-made high-performance chip, a sustainability-focused game co-designed with People with Intellectual Disabilities (PID), a small AI robot that helps identify dangerous mushrooms, and even a tool that video-tracks camouflaged sea creatures — these are the…
TecSummit, a unique event focused on entrepreneurship and technology, took place on March 28, at the Técnico Innovation Center (TIC), preceding the weekend-long TecStorm’25, the largest national university-level technology competition, organised by JUNITEC. The afternoon started with a roundtable on…
On the first day of the SINFO32, which took place from February 17 to 21, INESC-ID marked its presence during the panel “Técnico’s Computer Engineering at the Forefront of Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and…
Experts, professors, and students—some just beginning their journey into blockchain—came together in an environment where distinctions quickly blurred. The first edition of the Lisbon Blockchain Winter School (LxBWS), organized by the BIG ERA Chair project, provided a comprehensive training experience…
It was still early morning when a group of dedicated educators and excited students gathered on the small piscatorial sandy beach in front of Abade Elementary School. Surrounded by the lush northeastern forests of Príncipe Island, each student’s eyes sparkled…
“If you pick a grain of sand, what is the probability that two of us pick the same one?” With this example, Miguel Pupo Correia, President of the INESC-ID Executive Committee, illustrates the probabilistic uniqueness of DIDs (Decentralised Identifiers), during…