News & Events
Smart energy is not just found in the football fields of the Euro cup (Expresso)
There is talk of Europe and energy in June and it is not about football. There are new smart grids demonstrators and Lisbon already has one.
Portuguese researchers develop robot capable of collecting materials in automotive industry (TVI 24)
The goal is to develop smart robots (with advanced sensing, planning, part handling, autonomous navigation and integration in the factory’s execution system) to conduct picking operations in the assembly line.
3D system helps patients with epilepsy
A team led by Portuguese researchers have created the first 3D system is the world that helps doctors to diagnose and to decide on the best course of treatment for patients with epilepsy or other neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s.
Internet Access will be Possible in Remote Ocean Areas – Above 100 Km off the Coast
Cutting-edge project will provide broadband, low-cost Internet access in remote ocean areas, more than 100 km off the coast, using standard access technologies, such as Wi-Fi and 4G, to support the Blue Economy, including fisheries and maritime transportation.
INESC TEC researcher receives €1,5M grant from European Research Council
Alexandra Silva, associate researcher at INESC TEC’s High Assurance Software (HASLab) and senior lecturer at University College London, received €1.5M worth of funding from the European Research Council to programme complex computer systems, a topic related to software engineering.
INESC TEC researcher creates systems that increases the popularity of online news
A team composed of researchers from the Universities of Porto and Minho, including a researcher from INESC TEC and student of the MAP-i doctoral programme, Kelwin Fernandes, has created an intelligent system that makes it possible to increase by 15% the popularity of a news piece, and to identify the majority (73%) of news that will be most popular.
INESC TEC develops tool to optimise manufacturing in SMEs
INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) has developed a software prototype that allows more agile scheduling and a more flexible design and management in make-to-order manufacturing.
INESC TEC develops software to diagnose breast and prostate cancer
ExpertBayes is the name of the software created by INESC TEC that can help health professionals, more specifically doctors, to diagnose illnesses such as breast and prostate cancer.
Porto engineering wins international robotics competition in Italy
A team of INESC TEC researchers and students from the Porto School of Engineering (ISEP) won the Eurathlon Grand Challenge in Piombino, Italy, an international competition of robots used for search and rescue operations, which took place between 17 and 25 September.
INESC TEC paper highlighted in North-American professional publication
In August 2015, the paper “Knowledge sharing in project-based organizations: Overcoming the informational limbo”, written by Maria Almeida (former researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering, CESE) and António Lucas Soares, also from CESE, was highlighted in the newsletter of the Project Management Institute Houston, one of the most important international institutes in the area of project management.
Thesis and paper by INESC TEC researchers awarded
Luís Guimarães, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), has received the award for best 2013 and 2014 PhD thesis (award given every two years) and best 2015 scientific paper, as part of the APDIO Congress – Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2015), which took place between 7 and 9 September at the Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre.
BULLETIN INESC TEC | AUG-OCT 2015
This English version of the Bulletin INESC TEC (BIP) contains a selection of articles which were published in the Portuguese version between August and October 2015.
INESC TEC develops first deep sea robotic platform made in Portugal
INESC TEC has developed the first underwater robotic platform for the deep sea which has been completely developed in Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese companies. Project TURTLE - Technologies for long-term presence in the deep sea kicked off in 2014.
INESC TEC researchers simulate catastrophes in Europe
A team of researchers from INESC TEC have tested the intelligence and the autonomy of their robots in catastrophe simulation scenarios. The group represented Portugal in the euRathlon, the largest robotics competition in Europe, which took place between 17 and 25 September in Piombino (Livorno, Italy).
INESC TEC team is finalist of the Wagner Prize in the United States
A team from INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is a finalist of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Operations Research, organised by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in the United States, together with other international researchers and companies, including Ford Motor Company, in partnership with University of Michigan, the French postal services La Poste, in conjunction with the MIT and WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, and CSX Transportation, in partnership with the University of Illinois.
Portuguese ports are world pioneers in technological innovation
Portugal has, since September, some of the most technologically innovative ports in the world.
Portuguese researcher wins award for best PhD thesis
For the first time ever, a Portuguese researcher has won the award for the best PhD thesis in the world in the area of entrepreneurship. The winner is Sérgio Costa, researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC).
