-
Nuno Lopes receives research grants from Google and Woven Alpha
Nuno Lopes — researcher within the High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems Research Area at INESC-ID and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico — has been awarded research grants from Google and Woven Alpha (a subsidiary of Toyota) worth €35,000 and $30,000, respectively.
read more › -
Picture a building: algorithmic design in architectural representation
What does a line of computer code have in common with a brick — or a wall, or a window? According to the latest computational techniques applied to architecture, a lot.
read more › -
ISTSAT-1: the first satellite fully developed in Portugal will be in space in 2022
ISTSAT-1 — the first nanosatellite to be fully developed, from scratch, in Portugal — is set to be launched from the Ariane 6 rocket later this year. ISTSAT-1 has been developed by researchers and students from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), including Moisés Piedade (retired full Professor at IST and INESC-ID Emeritus Researcher) and coordinated by Rui Rocha (Professor at IST).
read more › -
On games and tales: two papers in “Interactive Storytelling”
What is the role of storytelling when multiple players are interacting? That question drove two back-to-back research papers recently authored by INESC-ID researchers – Mariana Farias, Susana Gamito and Carlos Martinho, members of the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) Research Area – in Interactive Storytelling, the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021.
read more › -
From player’s strategies to natural language interactions: two back-to-back publications in “Videogame Sciences and Arts”
Samuel Gomes and Gonçalo Baptista — two early stage researchers from the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) Research Area at INESC-ID — have recently published back-to-back research papers in Videogame Sciences and Arts, part of the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science book series. This issue is comprised of selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts (VJ 2020; initially to be held in Mirandela, Portugal, but instead hosted online by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, EsACT, on 26 to 28 November 2020).
read more › -
INESC-ID AI researchers ranked as some of the best in Europe
AI Rankings — a metric-based ranking that provides insights into Artificial Intelligence (AI) research worldwide — has ranked the University of Lisbon as 22nd in Europe and 125th worldwide. This placement includes six researchers from the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) Research Area at INESC-ID: Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes, Francisco C. Santos, Rui Prada and Andreas Wichert.
read more › -
Collaborative study on innovative breast cancer surgery with augmented reality selected for Elsevier’s World Cancer Day article collection
Breast cancer surgery with augmented reality, a clinical research paper published in April 2021 in the medical journal The Breast, has been selected for inclusion in Elsevier’s World Cancer Day 2022 article collection. This collection includes a curated line-up of some of the top research papers published in Elsevier’s Oncology journal portfolios.
read more › -
New book on electricity production from renewable energy sources
Rui Castro — a researcher in the Sustainable Power Systems Group at INESC-ID and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has published a new book: Electricity Production from Renewables (Springer Nature, 2022).
read more › -
SenToy stars in IST’s “110 Histórias | 110 Objetos” podcast
This week's episode of the “110 Histórias | 110 Objetos” podcast (which roughly translates to “110 Stories | 110 Objects”) features SenToy: a faceless, genderless and ageless toy, developed to communicate emotions to a computer and interact with a video game.
read more ›
