Lisbon Machine Learning School – LxMLS 2019
The 9th edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning School took place between 11 and 18 July at Instituto Superior Técnico. LxMLS 2019 was jointly organized by Feedzai, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Priberam Labs and Unbabel. This summer school is dedicated…
Advisory Board Visit
On July 15th and 16th we welcomed the visit of the advisory board members: Srinivas Devadas, Morris Sloman, José Carlos Principe and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. These external advisors advice the institution, providing a performance outlook in which the team regards for its strategy and institution plans….
Instituto Superior Técnico Interviews Leonel Sousa
Instituto Superior Técnico interviewed recently Leonel Sousa, President of INESC-ID, due to the 20 years’ celebration of our institution. A glimpse of the outcome of these last two decades and the future and challenges for the next years are among this short interview (in the…
INCISTA Internships
Last week took place at IST-Taguspark Campus the INCISTA Internships, under the program ‘Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Criar Futuro’. This internship, coordinated by the Professor Moisés Piedade, receive high school students and invite them to increase knowledge about the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Informatics,…
INESC-ID Evaluation
We are very proud and satisfied to announce the evaluation of R&D Units that we received from FCT this month. We were classified as excellent in all the evaluation parameters, which distinguish the ‘quality, merit relevance and internationalization of the R&D activities of the Integrated…
INESC -ID 20 Years – Museu do Oriente
INESC-ID celebrated the 20th anniversary with a special event that took place at Museu do Oriente. The ceremony started with the intervention of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor. We had two special panels discussing both ‘Grandes Desafios de Investigação para…
INESC-ID 20 Years Booklet
We are pleased to share with you the INESC-ID 20 Years Booklet that we have been preparing. We invite you to make a brief journey of the last twenty years of INESC-ID through the pages of this booklet. We hope you will enjoy it!
20 Years INESC-ID
Tomorrow we celebrate the 20 years of INESC-ID with a special wide public event at Museu do Oriente. Please join us on this special occasion to share and celebrate the future to come. The entrance is free.
Science and Technology Summit 2019
It has ended yesterday another edition of Science and Technology Summit, an event that promotes debates in the most varied areas of science, and also, allows an interaction between researchers, companies and the visiting public. We were present in another edition with the exhibition of…
Ana Paiva Elected EurAI Fellow
We are proud to announce that our researcher Ana Paiva, from the research group Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters (GAIPS), was elected EurAI Fellow by the EurAI Fellows committee 2019. The EurAi Fellows program was created by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1999,…
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.”