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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.

New project SLICE – Combining social agent architectures and machine learning

Slice (Social Learning for Intelligent Characters) is one of the most recent projects of INESC-ID. This project's objective is to develop and validate an authoring-friendly framework for the creation of transparent social intelligent agents capable of being deployed as virtual characters in training simulations or games, or used to drive the behavior of social robots. This framework joins two until now disparate areas of artificial intelligence research, namely, social agent architectures and machine learning.

INESC-ID participates in Workshop “Robotics in healthcare”

INESC-ID Researchers Francisco Melo and Miguel Faria,  participated in the workshop ""Robotics in health"" organized by the shared Services in Ministry of Health, EPE that took place on July 17th in Lisbon.

Summer Programs at INESC-ID

INESC-ID Researcher Moisés Piedade is hosting the Summer Program "Ciência Viva "INCISTA-Taguspark: INtrodução à Ciência no IST TAguspark" for young students at IST Taguspark.

Arquivo.pt 2018 awards

The first ceremony of the Arquivo.pt 2018 Award was held on July 5th at the  “Ciência 2018 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia”, at the Lisbon Congress Centre. The European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, presented the award at the plenary session “Novas fronteiras da era digital na Europa e no Mundo”.

Commemoration of IST 107th Anniversary

International Museum Day

On May 18th the DECivil Museum will host "Técnico Museums: 1st Meeting” where museum professionals, researchers, as well as students and professors will share their projects around the numerous collections gathered over the years that represent the history, identity and culture of engineering in Portugal.

Open Day CTM 2018

This year's edition of Open Day CTM, dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of Telecommunications and Multimedia, has as main speaker Arlindo Oliveira, president of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), researcher at INESC-ID, expert in AI and author of the book "The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity ". The presentation will serve as a motto to launch the debate around the main challenges and scientific opportunities that the successive advances of the IA place in the context of Telecommunications and Multimedia. The panel discussion, moderated by the prestigious journalist Mário Augusto (RTP), also counts on the participation of the engineers Jorge Moreira (TEKEVER) and Pedro Ferreira (STRDEO) and the professors of U.Porto Hélder Oliveira (INESC TEC / FCUP) and João Canas Ferreira (FEUP / INESC TEC).

Google Faculty Research Award for Rodrigo Rodrigues