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researcher Luis Correia @ionline

Most likely, you have heard of the generations of mobile phones, rather than the mobile communications systems that are used by mobile phones. Most likely also, you don't have a precise idea of the ones that exist and the difference between them. In fact, the telecommunications industry has called technological leaps in mobile communications systems for generations, which have emerged regularly at the beginning of each decade. " An article at the ionline by Luis Correia, Vice-President for the Management of the Taguspark Campus and coordinator of the Radio on Wireless research group at INESC-ID:

the nano satellite ISTNANOSAT-1

ISTNANOSAT-1, the nano satellite developed by students and teachers with the collaboration of AMRAD, was integrated into the "Fly your satellite" program of the European Space Agency (ESA). The team, involving researchers from IST, INESC-ID and IT, now comprises a group of six universities from across Europe that will have ESA's support in validating and flying their satellites, with no final testing and launch costs . The satellite is being built from scratch by the team. The detailed design of all satellite systems has been validated by ESA experts.

“Born From Knowledge”award to the MagCyte team

MagCyte Team (IST, INESC-ID, INESC-MN, JANZ SA) wins the award "Born From Knowledge" from the National Innovation Agency (ANI), at the i3S-Hovione Capital Health Innovation Prize, for their work in early cancer detection based on a lab-on-Chip that performs a magneto immuno-assay, using a simple blood sample. In the photo our researcher Diogo Caetano in the award cerimony.

RAGE shortlisted for the EC Innovation Radar prize

Best Student Paper Nomination Award

André Carvalho, a young researcher supervised by Pável Calado and João Paulo Carvalho, received a Best Student Paper Nomination Award at the EUSFLAT2017 - 10th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, with the paper "Fuzzy Fingerprints for Item-Based Collaborative Filtering".

2017 European Researchers’ Night

Last European Researchers' Night at Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva was a sucess. Sixteen researchers involved, during an eight-hour exhibition. Demos in virtual reality, spoken language systems and sustainable mobility, covering several research areas, like health, education, environment and serious games.

3rd Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction

The 3rd International Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction welcomes PhD students and young researchers for an intensive five days of lectures and ateliers covering a wide range of topics in social HRI.The summer school is being held at Vila Nova de Milfontes, at the southwest coast of Portugal from Monday 4 September to Friday 8 September 2017.

what about super-intelligent characters at Skyrim?

Our researchers from the GAIPS research group are modifying Skyrim characters to add social and intelligence skills to these virtual agents.

about the startup PETsys

The startup PETsys Electronics, has developed a detector that can identify tumors with a millimeter. Vasco Varela says that they rely on PET technology, which already exists, but make it more sensitive.