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Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021

The paper "Fitting the room: Social Motivation for Context-aware Agents" by Diogo Rato, Marta Couto and Rui Prada was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021.

Science and Technology 2021 week

Between November 25th and 26th 2021, INESC-ID will develop activities for primary and secondary schools within the scope of the Semana da Ciência & Tecnologia 2021 promoted by Ciência Viva. These activities aim to disseminate the area of Computational Biology, bring scientists closer to the participants, showing their day-to-day life and what is the impact of this area on medicine.

INESC Hub Winter Meeting’21

The INESC Brussels HUB will organise its Winter Meeting 2021 in Coimbra. You will be able to hear from and discuss directly with major EU stakeholders and the European Commission!

HeartGenetics recognised as the Digital Health Company of the Year – Portugal

HeartGenetics was one of the winners of the “Global Health & Pharma's Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2021”.

Interview with Ana Paiva – “90 Segundos de Ciência”

Ana Paiva in 90 Segundos de Ciência introducing the exploratory research project AGENTS, within CMU Portugal program. Ana is an INESCID researcher, coordinating the GAIPS lab and a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. At "90 segundos de ciência" she explains how the project is working to give robots the ability to generate humor and improve their interaction with humans.

Call for 3 PhD research scholarships

INESC-ID researchers among the World’s Top 2% Scientists list

The Stanford University recently released an update of the World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which includes more than 100,000 researchers. 124 Técnico researchers were included in the ranking of the world most influential researchers in their fields, which represents a substantial increase compared to 2020.

Distinguished Lecture – Keshab K. Parhi

“Accelerator Architectures for Deep Neural Networks: Inference and Training”. - 2 pm - EA3

Iolanda Leite: the scientist who seeks to build socially competent robots

The INESC-ID and Técnico alumna is an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and she is passionate about robotics.