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Up one levelResearcher from CRACS publishes book
Álvaro Figueira, researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), published a book on one of the mostly used e-learning systems in the world, currently used by the University of Porto and most of its faculties – the Moodle.
Ocean Observatory RAIA disseminates first results
The official website of the RAIA project, in which the Information and Computer Graphics Systems (USIG) is currently participating, has recently made public some functional examples – with real data – for the publication and sharing of data and models, such as the most recent observations obtained at the Cortegada Ocean-Meteorological Platform, Pilar de Rande and Boia de Cíes, as well as an updated list of the services provided by the observatory.
INESC Porto organises second edition of U-NET workshop with IEEE GlobeCom
The Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) area of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is currently organising, together with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), the second edition of the international workshop "U-NET: User-provided Networking". The workshop will take place on 6 December 2010, in Miami, United States of America.
INESC in the city of Porto celebrates 25th Anniversary
This year, INESC will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of existence in the city of Porto. And we celebrate this "silver anniversary" in an environment of optimism and innovation for the next quarter century. The opening of INESC Porto – Associated Laboratory to new Groups (and the consequent improvement of competences and scientific production), the project for a new building and the constitution of the new “INESC P&D Brasil” (INESC R&D Brazil), together the historic record budget of more than 10 million Euros for 2010, are some of the most recent landmarks that fill us with pride, not only regarding our past, but also regarding our hope in the future.
Team with researcher from INESC Porto wins “Design Contest”
Cândido Duarte, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and Vítor Grade Tavares, professor at FEUP, both researchers at INESC Porto’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit, won, together with Daniel Oliveira (MSc student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP), the competition “Design Contest - TSMC 90nm LP MS/RF”. The results were announced on 21 October. The winners will have the opportunity to fabricate an integrated circuit for Radio Frequency (worth 7500 Euros) free of charge.
INESC Porto participates in the organisation of international workshop on Microgrids
In the context of its activity in the European project More MicroGrids, the Power Systems Unit (USE) will participate in the organisation of the international workshop MICROGRIDS – Novel Architectures for Future Power Systems, which will take place in Paris, on 29 January 2010.
Researcher from UGEI awarded by IBM
João Falcão e Cunha, researcher at the Industrial Management and Engineering Unit (UGEI) and professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), received the “Faculty Awards” from IBM on 2 November 2009.
EWOFS'2010 Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors to be Held in Portugal
Optical fibre sensors will represent the core of the EWOFS'2010 meeting, which will take place between 8 and 10 September 2010 in Porto (Portugal). Contributions are expected to cover new sensing principles, new transducers based on micro and nanotechnologies, new subsystems, signal processing and sensor multiplexing, as well as new applications and the exploitation of this sensing technology.
INESC Porto organises fourth edition of European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, EWOFS'2010
Optical fibre sensors will represent the core of the EWOFS’2010 meeting, which will take place between 8 and 10 September 2010 in Porto (Portugal). Contributions are expected to cover new sensing principles, new transducers based on micro and nanotechnologies, new subsystems, signal processing and sensor multiplexing, as well as new applications and the exploitation of this sensing technology. Papers should be submitted electronically through www.ewofs.org until March 31, 2010. In addition to the Workshop Proceedings, the authors are invited to submit an extended version of the accepted papers in a Special Issue of IEEE Sensors Journal.
Argonne gets wind of new energy models
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with support from the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto), are developing new wind power forecasting techniques that they hope will allow power system operators and wind power plant managers to more accurately predict the amount of electricity that the wind power plants will generate at any given time.
Researchers from LIAAD publish book
Pavel Brazdil and Carlos Soares, researchers at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), are co-authors of a book recently published by Springer, entitled "Metalearning - Applications to Data Mining", written together with Christophe Giraud-Carrier of the Brigham Young University and Ricardo Vilalta of the University of Houston.
«Fingerprint Singular Points Detection Competition»
INESC Porto – Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto – together with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) – has opened a call for applications for the “Fingerprint Singular Points Detection Competition”.
INESC Porto researcher coordinates team of students in ESA experiment
Carla Carmelo Rosa, researcher at INESC Porto’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) and professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), was the supervisor of a project developed by a team of students from FCUP’s Physics Department. The team, called “Physics Addicted”, was invited to launch an experiment in microgravity, in the context of the call for the programme “Fly your thesis” of the European Space Agency (ESA).
President of INESC Porto appointed National Delegate to EC Programme
José Manuel Mendonça, President of INESC Porto and Full Professor at FEUP, was appointed by the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education for the position of National Delegate to the NMP Committee (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Processes) of the R&TD 7th Framework Programme (7th FP) of the European Commission (2007-2013).
Group of Robotics adds competences to INESC Porto
The entry of the Group of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Robis) in INESC Porto, highlighted in the BIP of July, consolidated the acquisition of competences by INESC Porto, opening the path for a plethora of potential synergies and markets. BIP interviewed Américo Azevedo, the coordinator of Robis, together with António Paulo Moreira, in order to understand how he sees this new challenge of playing a double role at INESC Porto and what he thinks are the benefits that both the Group of Robotics and INESC Porto can take from this relationship.
INESC Porto competition aims to improve fingerprint identification technology
Applications can be submitted until 29 January 2010. Fingerprinting is the faster, simpler and less intrusive biometric identification system and when ideal conditions are met, high reliability and low cost are easily combined.
INESC Porto analyses electrical systems of Madeira and Porto Santo
The Power Systems Unit (USE) of INESC Porto is preparing to develop a set of studies on the dynamic behaviour of the electrical systems of the Madeira and Porto Santo islands.
Fibersensing receives Honourable Mention
Fibersensing, a spin-off company from INESC Porto, received, on 29 November, an Honourable Mention in the category of Innovation of the Awards CEP-AEP 2009, given in the context of the Entrepreneurial Cooperation Forum Galicia-North of Portugal.
INESC Porto researchers awarded at ICSEA 2009
Hugo Ferreira, Ademar Aguiar and João Pascoal Faria, researchers at the Information and Communication Systems Unit (USIC) of INESC Porto, received the Best Paper Award at the SEDES workshop, organized by ICSEA 2009 - The Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, which took place between 20 and 25 September 2009 in Porto.
INESC Porto researcher is visiting professor at the University of Potsdam
Alexandre Valle de Carvalho, researcher at INESC Porto’s Information and Communication Unit (USIC) will be in Berlin in January as visiting professor at the University of Potsdam and as guest researcher at the Hasso-Plattner Institut (HPI). The invitation was made by Juergen Doellner, director of the Department of Graphic Computing at HPI and professor at the University of Potsdam.
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