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INSIDE Project featured in DN Insider Magazine

OPEN DAYS 2018 – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK

What science is done in Portugal? Who are our scientists? How do they work? What do they research? What results do they get?

Encarnação Award

During the ICGI’2018 Conference, that took place between 15 and 16 November 2018 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, INESC - ID Researcher Daniel Mendes was awarded the 2018 edition of the annual “Professor José Luís Encarnação” prize, in recognition of his outstanding research activities in the area of ​​Computer Graphics and Applications.

RAGE at the “Tech with a societal aspect” exhibition in the European Parliament.

Serious games are playing an important role in many areas, this includes education and training, health care and aging, inclusiveness, citizenship, innovation and the digital transformation.

3rd Alumni Meeting of the Laboratório de Jogos of Instituto Superior Técnico

The 3rd Alumni Meeting of the Laboratório de Jogos of Instituto Superior Técnico (III Encontro de Alumni do Laboratório de Jogos do IST), was held on October 26th at 5:15 pm, at the IST Taguspark Campus. In this event the participants discovered the current projects of former students of the Games subject area, explored the work we have developed in the Laboratório de Jogos, and learn about the professional experience of alumni who are currently working in the gaming industry. The event featured three individual Alumni talks and a panel with more Alumnis and a visit to the Laboratório de Jogos lab to try out masters theses and games developed by our current students.

“Virtual Agent” APP won the EDP UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE 2018

Luís Henriques, Ricardo Rei and Luís Nunes, Master Students at INESC-ID, won the 12th edition of the EDP University Challenge 2018 contest that took place October 9th at EDP's headquarters in Lisbon. Inspired by the theme of this edition - Customer Service - the students developed the project "Costumers Support Chatbot" that proposes the creation of a virtual agent integrated in Facebook that provides support services to the client through techniques of natural language and machine learning.

RAGE @ Gamescom2018

On 21, 22 & 23 August a strong RAGE team was present at Gamescom 2018 at the Kölnmesse in Cologne, Germany. This key dissemination activity was a big success as a project: we had the opportunity to meet with a large number of game developers and industry key perso nalities, leveraging on the opportunity provided by the Dutch Games Association to have a RAGE booth in the Dutch Pavilion. The FAtiMA toolkit developed at INESC-ID was one of the featured technological results of the project.

European Night of Researchers’ 2018

The European Night of Researchers' for the 2018-2019 biennium under the theme "Science in the City" took place in Lisbon on September 28th,  from 6 p.m. to 12 p.m., at the National Museum of Natural History and Science and  the Principe Real Garden.

“O Trabalho dá que pensar” – A FFMS event with Arlindo Oliveira

From September 14th to 16th, the Tropical Botanical Garden, in Belém, was the stage of another Encontro da Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, this time dedicated to work.