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INESC TEC researcher is finalist of Sonae Media Art Award
Rui Penha, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), is one of the five finalists of the first edition of the Sonae Media Art Award, which awards national artistic creations in the area of media art.
INESC TEC helps create "Shop of the Future"
Project provides technology to Textile and Clothing sector What if you could try on clothes without having to undress? What if you had a virtual assistant that would give you information on different outfits according to your profile?
INESC TEC researcher is associate editor of journal on audio, speech, and language processing
Matthew Davies, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), was appointed associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Matthew Davies is now one of the members of the editorial board that will be coordinating the publication of this journal on audio, speech and language processing over the next three years.
INESC TEC studies application of new immersive functionalities in different scenarios
INESC TEC’s Centre for Information and Computer Graphics Systems (CSIG) is currently developing a project as part of the 2014-2015 Innovation Plan, in partnership with and funded by PT Inovação e Sistemas.
UNICAMP joins INESC Brazil Network
The prestigious State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), located in the State of São Paulo, has recently joined the INESC Brazil Network. The partnership between INESC TEC and INESC P&D Brasil (INESC R&D Brazil) was signed by UNICAMP’s director.
FCT rates INESC TEC as “Excellent”
After the second evaluation stage of R&D Units, conducted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), INESC TEC was rated as "Excellent", obtaining a score of 24 points (out of 25). As a result, INESC TEC will be receiving almost 2.6 million euros/year.
INESC TEC researcher joins editorial board of TRPRO
Jorge Freire de Sousa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), was invited to join the editorial board of the new journal Transportation Research Procedia (TRPRO).
INESC TEC creates knowledge platform for the Galicia-North of Portugal Euroregion
INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics designed a webpage for the European group for cross-border cooperation between Galicia and the North of Portugal (GNP-AECT). Called Euroregion Information Office (GIE), the webpage contains information on the Euroregion.
INESC TEC organises executive programme on lean startup with Silicon Valley coach
Build, measure and learn – this is the combination of words that best describes the lean startup thought born at Silicon Valley, a worldwide renowned innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States, which hosts some of the largest and most dynamic IT companies and technology-based startups.
Portuguese researchers develop maritime search and rescue technology
According to the news website Ciência 2.0, a team from the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering – Technology and Science (INESC TEC) is leading the development of maritime search and rescue technology. This technology is being developed as part of project ICARUS – Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned Search operations, and will be demonstrated in Portugal in the summer of next year.
Work developed at INESC TEC receives Best Master Thesis Award
The paper “Analysis of expressiveness of Portuguese Sign Language Speakers”, written by Maria Inês Rodrigues, former collaborator at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), received the 2014 Best Master Thesis Award from the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP).
Portuguese researchers develop maritime search and rescue technology
A team from the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto – Science and Technology (INESC TEC) is leading the development of technologies to support search and rescue operations at sea in the context of the European project ICARUS – Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned Search operations. The maritime component will be demonstrated in Portugal in the summer of 2015.
INESC TEC researchers are finalists in the “Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2014”
Gilberto Bernardes and Pydi Ganga, both researchers at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), have come second and third, respectively, in the competition “Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2014”, in the PhD category.
INESC TEC receives award for paper on data mining techniques to predict malfunctions
The paper “Failure Prediction - an Application in the Railway Industry”, written by Pedro Mota Pereira, Rita Ribeiro and João Gama, researchers at INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), has received the Carl H. Smith Student Paper Award at the conference Discovery Science 2014.
German HBM acquires spin-off FiberSensing
The German company Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH (HBM), a world reference in testing and measurement equipment, has acquired FiberSensing – Sistemas Avançados de Monitorização S.A., an INESC TEC spin-off. According to the CEO and co-founder of FiberSensing, Luís Ferreira, this is “a fantastic opportunity for us to expand the use of optical fibre monitoring technology at an unprecedented level”.
Wine production and technology go hand in hand to assert Portugal’s wine producing status
INESC TEC is technological partner to modernise the sector
Stroke: Virtual Reality and "smart" sensors for the therapies of the future
Virtual reality, “serious” games, or smart sensors – all these concepts are related to the latest technological inventions used for cognitive and motor rehabilitation after a stroke. In the world stroke day, we travel to the (very near) future to see how we can recover from the condition.
INESC P&D Brasil and Chilean University define goals for South America
INESC P&D Brasil (IB) and the Metropolitan University of Technology in Chile (UTEM) met between 13 and 16 October in two strategic locations of the INESC Brazil Network. The purpose of this meeting was to continue the activities set out in the agreement signed between IB and UTEM, and design proposals for joint R&D activities in Chile.
INESC TEC participates in project in the area of aeronautics
The Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) at INESC TEC is participating in the Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) “Innovation Dynamics in Aeronautics and Embraer in Évora: Towards a Distributed Platform for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, New Employment and Skills Development”. This ERI will analyze the increasing complexity and uncertainty of technological advances, supply chains and business settings in the aeronautics industry.
