André Ribeiro and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva receive “Most Influential Paper” Award at QUATIC’22
André Ribeiro — former masters student in computer science and engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) — and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva — Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at IST and researcher at INESC-ID — have received the “Most Influential Paper” Award at the QUATIC 2022 conference.
Ribeiro and Silva received the award — given to the article with the greatest impact and influence in the Information Technology Quality community ten years after its publication — for the article Survey on Cross-Platforms and Languages for Mobile Apps. The winning paper focuses on multi or cross-platform applications and Domain Specific Languages (DSL), which facilitate the development of cross-platform mobile applications, while tackling the current state of affairs in this area.
“A forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management”, the 15th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology — QUATIC 2022 — was organized by the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, and took place from 12-14 September 2022.
Upcoming Events
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.”