iv4XR: Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems
iv4XR (Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems), a Horizon 2020-funded European project, finished its run on 31 December 2022 with some very exciting outputs. Coordinated by Rui Prada — INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at Instituto Superior…
Isabel Trancoso appointed IEEE Fellow Committee Vice Chair
Isabel Trancoso has been appointed IEEE Fellow Committee Vice Chair, a prestigious leadership role that recognizes a singular career and unique research contributions. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit…
ID-GAMING: Making a difference for persons with intellectual disabilities
A group of six institutions, across the social solidarity and information and communication technologies (ICT) sectors, have partnered up to improve the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities through “serious games”. Preliminary results are in — and they are promising. From 01 November…
“Vencer o Adamastor” awarded to Gonçalo Correia
The inaugural Vencer o Adamastor Prize, worth €20,000, has been awarded to the machine learning researcher Gonçalo Correia. A senior researcher at Priberam Labs and Instituto de Telecomunicações — where he is working on the development of neural network models — and an Instituto Superior…
INESC Lisboa 2022 Christmas celebration: a great road ahead
The 2022 INESC Lisboa Christmas Celebration took place on 14 December at Instituto Superior Técnico’s Grand Auditorium. Featuring talks by Professor Arlindo Oliveira, President of INESC, and Professor Leonel Sousa, President of INESC Lisboa, as well as an intervention by Emeritus Professor José Tribolet (founder…
Accelerat.ai: a new consortium to accelerate digital transformation in Portugal
INESC-ID has joined a wide ranging set of partners in Accelerat.ai — a new consortium whose goal is to accelerate the digital transformation of the public and private sectors in Portugal. Representing an investment of 34.5 million euros supported by the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience…
INESC-ID takes part in the world’s largest consortium on Responsible AI
INESC-ID has been announced as one of the members of the world’s largest consortium on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Responsible AI). Led by Unbabel — and including a set of ten other startups, eight research institutes (in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, amongst them INESC-ID, Instituto Superior…
Girls in Artificial Intelligence: a video series of young talent in AI
Girls in AI, a new video series of young talent in Artificial Intelligence, has been launched and is now fully online. Isabel Trancoso — INESC-ID researcher in the Human Language Technologies Research Area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) — has, together with…
Diogo Nunes awarded “Best Clinical Scientific Article” Prize
Diogo Nunes has been awarded the “Best Clinical Scientific Article” Prize by Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo da Dor (the Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain). An Early Stage Researcher at the Human Language Technologies Research Area, Nunes was awarded his best paper prize…
INESC-ID doctoral student awarded Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award
Maria Catarina Botelho, an Early Stage Researcher at INESC-ID, has been awarded one of the Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Awards (Prémios Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, this year in their sixth edition) in the “Young Alumna” category. A graduate from the Integrated Masters program in Biomedical…
Upcoming Events
NII International Internship Programme Presentation and Q&A by Emmanuel Planas
On April 30, Emmanuel Planas, the acting director of the Global Liaison Office (GLO) and responsible for the internationalisation program at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, will give a presentation to introduce the NII and its internship program to INESC-ID students and IST’s Master’s in Computer Science students.
Date & Time: April 30, 14h00
Where: Sala Polivalente, Técnico – Taguspark
“The NII International Internship Program is an exchange activity with students from institutions with which NII has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement. This incentive program aims at giving interns the opportunity for professional and personal development by engaging in research activities under the guidance and supervision of NII researchers.
The NII Internship Program is open to Research Master’s and PhD students who are currently enrolled at one of the partner institutions that have signed an MOU agreement with NII.”
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”