Sandra Y. Okita, Teachers College, Columbia University – Abstract: People often turn to others to improve their own learning. Technological artifacts (e.g. humanoid robots, pedagogical agents/avatars) often consist of human-like qualities ranging across appearance, behavior, and intelligence. These features often … Continued
Candidaturas abertas no âmbito do Sistema de Apoio à Transformação Digital da Administração Pública “INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL E CIÊNCIA DOS DADOS” São elegíveis acções de promoção e divulgação de iniciativas com vista à disseminação de melhores práticas e partilha de conhecimento … Continued
On January 31st at 2.30pm at INESC-ID Alameda (room 336), took place a 30 minutes presentation (plus Q&A) by Armilar Venture Partners. Armilar Venture Partners (formerly known as Espírito Santo Ventures), is an independent VC fund manager of more than 200 … Continued
Andrew Myers, Cornell University, USA – Abstract: Programming concurrent, distributed systems that mutate shared, persistent, geo-replicated state is hard. To enable high availability and scalability, a new class of weakly consistent data stores has become popular. However, some data needs … Continued
Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid – Abstract: Modern data stores often need to provide both high scalability and strong transactional semantics. They achieve scalability by partitioning data into shards and fault-tolerance by replicating each shard across several servers. … Continued
Diego Pons, – Abstract: Tezos is a blockchain done by computer scientists most of them related to the INRIA. As a result, Tezos is written in OCaml, advocates solid algorithms, domain specific languages for smart contracts and formal verification. … Continued
INESC-ID Reseacher José Borbinha was interviewed for an article about managing digital information in the long term. This contribution comes in line with his coordination responsibilities in the construction of the European eArchiving Building Block, in the scope of the CEF Programme: … Continued
This new essay by Arlindo Oliveira describes, in an approachable way, what artificial intelligence is and how it relates to human intelligence, as well as possible societal and economic applications and implications. It includes a historical perspective and an analysis … Continued
