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INESC-ID participates in UMAP 2018 and AAMAS 2018 Conferences

Ana Paiva, INESC-ID researcher at the Interactive Intelligent Systems (IIS) Group has recently been invited as keynote speaker in two major conferences, UMAP 2018 (User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization) and AAMAS 2018 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) which took place, respectively, in Singapore and Stockholm.

SMI 2018 – Lisbon

Spearheaded by INESC-ID Researchers Joaquim Jorge and Alfredo Ferreira from VIMMI GROUP,  SMI 2018 (Shape Modeling International Symposium) took place early June in Lisbon and successfully reached the goals of gathering a wide community of researchers, developers, practitioners, students in academia and industry, towards a new mathematical theories and novel computational techniques for modeling, simulating, and processing digital shape representations.

Interview with Rodrigo Rodrigues about the CMU Portugal Program

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program,  launched almost 12 years ago, is entering a new phase and aims to create a new generation of "innovative cities" in Portugal with 20 millions euros available until 2023.

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”.

Ciência 2018 – The annual meeting of Portuguese researchers

The annual meeting of Portuguese researchers Ciência 2018 was held July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, at the Lisbon Congress Center.

INESC-ID researchers publishes book

João Madeiras Pereira, Mário Rui Gomes, Alfredo Ferreira, researchers at INESC-ID,  António Fernando Coelho (FEUP) and João Brisson (IST),  published in May 2018, the book "Introdução à Computação Gráfica ".

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).