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  • Arquivo.pt 2018 awards

    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”.

    This first edition received 27 proposals from various fields such as: media, technology, computer science, tourism, cultural and historic patrimony.  This award recognizes originality and innovation in Arquivo.pt’s applicability and the importance of web preservation.

    The third place winner was attributed to the work   “Arquivo de Opinião” by Miguel Won, researcher at INESC-ID at IDSS group.

    The Opinion Archive is a web application that makes available to the user a digital repository of opinion articles, published between 2008 and 2016, in the main Portuguese media agents.

     

     

  • Ciência 2018 – The annual meeting of Portuguese researchers

    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.

    This meeting  aims promoting a broad debate on the main topics and challenges of the scientific agenda beyond the world of research. The meeting main goal, therefore, is to stimulate not just the participation but also the interaction between researchers, the business sector and the general public.

    INESC-ID researchers Mário Silva,  Susana Vinga, Pedro Carvalho and João Pedro Barreto  made their communications in the areas of technology in healthcare, renewable energies and smart cities.

    Isabel Trancoso was the guest speakers on Session 4: “New frontiers of the digital age in Europe and the world – Novas fronteiras da era digital na Europa e no Mundo” .

     Interviews and videos of the event are available on the Ciência 2018 Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyjBGApjIbIW_TsV49PPkQQ

     

     

  • INESC-ID researchers publishes book

    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 “.

    This work presents the bases and concepts that allow to understand and apply the various phases of the development of a graphic application. By linking the underlying theoretical principles to Computer Graphics with practical and concrete situations, this book is not only a theoretical reference for university content, but also a practical guide for professionals interested in improving the efficiency and quality of their subjects.

    Published by FCA, the book is available on Amazon, FCA and Wook.

     

    https://www.fca.pt/en/catalogue/computer-science/design-multimedia/introducao-a-computacao-grafica/

     

     

  • Commemoration of IST 107th Anniversary

    Commemoration of IST 107th Anniversary

    The annual ceremony of Técnico’s anniversary  will be held on May 23rd at IST Alameda and INESC-ID will also celebrate this day with total engagement, showcasing several demos of ongoing projects.

     

    Here´s what to expect from INESC- ID Research groups:

     

    • Temperature control on a tower use solar energy – Simulation of the control temperature system of a solar thermal tower
    •  “Sueca” card game with EMYS Robot – Participant will be able to play a team card game called Sueca with a robot
    • Project RAGE – Interviewing a virtual suspect
    • Augmented Surgery and Immersive Endoscopy: Two Potential Healthcare Realities – Experience with Augmented reality (AR) and  virtual reality (VR) the technology and the potential areas of development of immersive diagnostic.
    • SafeCloud middleware: how to prepare for 0-day vulnerabilities in secure communication channels – This demonstration will show the integration of two SafeCloud communication technologies: vtTLS and sKnock
    • Side-Channel Analysis: unwanted back doors in most cryptographic systems
    • Video-games from the IST Game Lab Dark Things About; Mexican Standoff; VEngine; FAtiMA VR Demo.

     

    Full program here
    https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/dia-do-tecnico-2018/

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • International Museum Day

    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.

    Several INESC-ID Researchers will participate in this event, for instance, at the Faraday Museum,  you will travel through two centuries of innovation in electrotechnology guided by Moisés Piedade from Embedded Electronic Systems research line.

    Also, Teresa Vazão, Computing Systems and Communication Networks research line, will showcase a collection of computer equipment collected over the past two decades at Campus Taguspark.

    From Interactive Intelligent Systems action line,  David de Matos will talk about the evolution of computer engineering at IST in the last 20 years and Rui Prada will tell you everything about the futuristic augmented reality game at the historical Faraday Museum.

    The event begins at 10.00 a.m with the opening session conducted by José Pinto Paixão (Vice-rector of ULisboa) and Arlindo Oliveira (President of IST).

    The event is free

    Full program here:

    https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/events/tecnico-museums-collections-1st-session/

     

     

     

  • Open Day CTM 2018

    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).

    The entrance is free but requires registration.

    Information about venue, program, registration, here:
    http://opendayctm.inesctec.pt/

    DATE: 11th MAY 2018

    LOCATION: FEUP Auditorium, Porto

  • Call for Submissions – TPDL 2018 Conference /Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge

    Call for Submissions – TPDL 2018 Conference /Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge

    The Joint TPDL / Dublin Core 2018 Doctoral Consortium, is a collaboration of the TPDL 2018 and Dublin Core 2018 conferences, which will be held in Porto, Portugal, on September 10th 2018.

    The purpose of JTDC 2018 is to provide to doctoral students a friendly and lively atmosphere for sharing research ideas and experience with peers, and receive constructive feedback from senior researchers and scholars.JTDC 2018 follows an important TPDL tradition that aims at giving next generation researchers a chance to present their work to the digital libraries community, this year also extended to the Dublin Core community!

    All accepted submissions will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries:http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current

    Important Dates:

    • June 01, 2018 – Submissions deadline (submissions by email to jlb@tecnico.ulisboa.pt)
    • June 08, 2018 – Notifications of acceptance
    • June 22, 2018 – Camera-ready short-papers
    • September, 10, 2018 – JTDC 2018 workshop session

     

  • Best Paper Award at the XXI Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering

    Best Paper Award at the XXI Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering

    Luís Cruz and Rui Abreu, both researchers at INESC-ID (in the Information and Decision Support Systems research area) won a Best Paper Award at the XXI Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering SET Track, with the paper “Using Automatic Refactoring to Improve Energy Efficiency of Android Apps”.

    The winning article consider that  the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones has brought additional challenges to the software development life-cycle. Mobile applications (apps, for short) ought to provide the same set of features as conventional software, with limited resources: such as, limited processing capabilities, storage, screen and, not less important, power source. Although energy efficiency is a valuable requirement, developers often lack knowledge of best practices. In this paper, we study whether or not automatic refactoring can aid developers ship energy efficient apps. We leverage a tool, Leafactor, with five energy code smells that tend to go unnoticed. We use Leafactor to analyze code smells in 140 free and open source apps. As a result, we detected and fixed code smells in 45 apps, from which 40% have successfully merged our changes into the official repository.

    The main objective of this leading research forum on Software Engineering (SE) in Ibero-America is to promote high-quality scientific research in Ibero-American countries, thus supporting the researchers in this community in publishing and discussing their work. In addition, the conference fosters collaboration and cross-fertilization among software academics, students, and industry.

    The Conference took place at  Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, between 23rd and 27th of April.

  • INESC-ID Researchers wins “Best Paper Award”

    INESC-ID Researchers wins “Best Paper Award”

    The paper titled “Software-Defined Data Services: Interoperable and Network-Aware Big Data Executions”, received a Best Paper Award at IEEE SDS 2018 (International Conference on Software Defined Systems). Pradeeban Kathiravelu and  Luís Veiga, researchers at INESC-ID,  co-wrote the paper with Peter Van Roy (UCLouvain).

    In this paper,  authors present Software-Defined Data Services (SDDS), extending the data services with the SDN paradigm. They present the design of an SDDS orchestration framework for network-aware big data executions in data centers, then evaluate the performance of SDDS through microbenchmarks on a prototype implementation. By extending SDN beyond data centers, they can deploy SDDS in broader execution environments.

    The objective of SDS 2018 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems.

    The IEEE SDS 2018 was held in Barcelona between 23rd and 26th of April.

  • Google Faculty Research Award for Rodrigo Rodrigues

    Google Faculty Research Award for Rodrigo Rodrigues

     

    INESC-ID Researcher, Rodrigo Miragaia Rodrigues, received the Google Faculty Research Awards 2017, being the only Portuguese  contemplated within this prestigious list of winners 2017.  This award aims to recognize and support world-class, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. The goal is to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.

    This edition received 1033 applications from 46 countries and more than 360 universities, a selection process that resulted in the listing of the 152  funded projects, most of them linked to the areas of machine learning, computer interaction, machine perception and Systems.

    Rodrigo Miragaia Rodrigues research areas are distributed systems and cloud computing. His curriculum already includes several awards and distinctions, including the first “ERC Grant” in the field of information technology in Portugal, received in 2012.