OPEN DAYS 2018 – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK
What science is done in Portugal? Who are our scientists? How do they work? What do they research? What results do they get? In the scope of the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, INESC-ID ALAMEDA opened its doors on November 23rd to provide the opportunity for…
Encarnação Award
During the ICGI’2018 Conference, that took place between 15 and 16 November 2018 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, INESC – ID Researcher Daniel Mendes was awarded the 2018 edition of the annual “Professor José Luís Encarnação” prize, in recognition…
RAGE at the “Tech with a societal aspect” exhibition in the European Parliament.
INESC-ID has been asked to present the RAGE project on 20 and 21 November 2018 at a meeting of the European Parliament in Brussels. Together with 9 other projects, the RAGE project has been selected from hundreds of current research and innovation projects in the…
3rd Alumni Meeting of the Laboratório de Jogos of Instituto Superior Técnico
The 3rd Alumni Meeting of the Laboratório de Jogos of Instituto Superior Técnico (III Encontro de Alumni do Laboratório de Jogos do IST), was held on October 26th at 5:15 pm, at the IST Taguspark Campus. In this event the participants discovered the current projects…
“Virtual Agent” APP won the EDP UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE 2018
Luís Henriques, Ricardo Rei and Luís Nunes, Master Students at INESC-ID, won the 12th edition of the EDP University Challenge 2018 contest that took place October 9th at EDP’s headquarters in Lisbon. Inspired by the theme of this edition – Customer Service – the students…
RAGE @ Gamescom2018
On 21, 22 & 23 August a strong RAGE team was present at Gamescom 2018 at the Kölnmesse in Cologne, Germany. This key dissemination activity was a big success as a project: we had the opportunity to meet with a large number of game developers…
European Night of Researchers’ 2018
The European Night of Researchers’ for the 2018-2019 biennium under the theme “Science in the City” took place in Lisbon on September 28th, from 6 p.m. to 12 p.m., at the National Museum of Natural History and Science and the Principe Real Garden. More than…
“O Trabalho dá que pensar” – A FFMS event with Arlindo Oliveira
From September 14th to 16th, the Tropical Botanical Garden, in Belém, was the stage of another Encontro da Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, this time dedicated to work. From the impact of technology to demography, the future of work is one of the most debated…
New book – Computer Architecture: Digital Circuits to Microprocessors
This new release co-authored by INESC-ID researchers José Monteiro and Arlindo Oliveira covers digital circuits, computer architecture and assembly programming. The authors addresses the concepts from logic gates to advanced computer architecture. It comes with a full spectrum of exercises and web-downloadable support materials, including…
New project SLICE – Combining social agent architectures and machine learning
Slice (Social Learning for Intelligent Characters) is one of the most recent projects of INESC-ID. This project’s objective is to develop and validate an authoring-friendly framework for the creation of transparent social intelligent agents capable of being deployed as virtual characters in training simulations or…
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.”