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LxMLS 2018 – 8th Lisbon Machine Learning School

LxMLS 2018 will take place June 14th-21th at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações, the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), Unbabel, and Priberam Labs.

Champalimaud Foundation visits INESC-ID Taguspark

On January 18th, INESC-ID welcomed Dra. Leonor Beleza (Champalimaud Foundation President), Dr. João Silveira Botelho, (Champalimaud Foundation Vice - President), Dr. Nickolas Papanikolaou ( Head of the Computational Clinical Imaging Group at the Champalimaud Foundation), Dr. José Cruz (Digital Projects Coordinator) and Dr. Pedro Garcia da Silva (Scientific Coordinator) The Champalimaud Foundation is a private biomedical research foundation, particularly in the areas of cancer and neurosciences.

INESC-ID and Paris Descartes University sign collaboration protocol

On January 15th, INESC-ID signed a protocol with Paris Descartes University under UNESCO Chair to promote cooperation in digital anatomy.

Project IMPRESS: higher software quality through gamification in educational programs

Improving engagement of students in software engineering courses is the goal of this new European Erasmus+ project. The researching team will tackle the problem by introducing gaming elements into software engineering training materials. A series of gamified reusable, and freely accessible multiplayer quizzes will be developed. These quizzes will be used live by the students in the classroom. Additionally, two interactive educational games will be developed covering practical aspects of formal specification and software quality assurance. The commitment of students is expected to increase due to the gamification techniques used in the approach. This effect will be assessed in a longitudinal study supported by learning analytics involving several pilots in courses of the associated universities in 4 different countries.

Luís Miguel Silveira: Elected CEDA Vice President Publications

SafeCloud: against more powerful adversaries

SSL/TLS communication channels play a very important role in Internet security: it is the “S” in HTTPS. However, there are concerns about the strength of the security mechanisms used in TLS channels, as shown by attacks such as Logjam (https://weakdh.org/) and DROWN (https://drownattack.com/).

Global Game Jam 2018

Carlos Martinho, researcher at the Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters group of INESC-ID, is organizing the Global Game Jam 2018,  the world's largest game jam event with physical locations in 95 countries.

INESC-ID new management bodies

A new Board of Directors and a new Scientific Council Board were recently elected to the 2018-2019 biennium. The new Board of Directors is composed by: Leonel Sousa, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Luís Correia, Inês Lynce and Jorge Fernandes. The new Scientific Council Board will be led by Isabel Trancoso, supported by Vasco Manquinho and Paolo Romano.

Signing Ceremony between INESC-ID and SPR

The signing ceremony of the Cooperation Agreement between INESC-ID and the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology will take place on December 22 at 9:00 am in the meeting hall of the Central Pavilion at IST Alameda. This agreement establishes the terms of cooperation between INESC-ID and SPR in order to be granted, by SPR to INESC-ID, access to the REUMA.PT data for the development of R & D work related to the application of techniques of artificial intelligence and automatic learning to the processing of unstructured fields in this database, in order to infer new and relevant knowledge, from the medical point of view.