Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled and Mário Silva win “Best Portuguese Internet Research” Award 2025 by the Internet Society
The paper “The Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theories and Opinion: Why Humans and AI Struggle to Differentiate Them”, developed by INESC-ID, has recently won the “Best Portuguese Internet Research” Award of the Internet Society. The paper is authored by Paula Carvalho, now at Universidade de…
In the Media: Inês Lynce’s role at record-breaking ECAI 2025 featured in Il Mattino
According to Il Mattino, one of the main Italian newspapers, this year’s European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), one of the most prestigious international AI conferences, being held in Bologna from October 25 to 30, has set attendance and submission records. The article highlights…
INESC-ID Researchers among Stanford Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists in 2024
Stanford has released the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2025, which feature 20 INESC-ID researchers, among the most cited scientists in the world. This annual recognition comprises two lists naming top scientists, doctors, engineers, and mathematicians, among 200 thousand people, one referring to the 2024…
Rain or shine, INESC-ID brought science to the European Researchers’ Night
Not even the threat of tropical cyclone Gabrielle discouraged the hundreds of families and curious visitors who filled the Marina of Oeiras for another edition of the European Researchers’ Night (NEI). And last Friday, September 26, brought its reward: the announced storm turned into a…
Spin-offs: SiliconGate, the company that emerged from a sabbatical
Marcelino Santos proudly opens a box of earbuds from a major global brand. Inside these sleek devices is a tiny circuit designed by SiliconGate — the INESC-ID spin-off specialising in analog and mixed-signal chip design.”These earbuds were a worldwide success”, says the co-founder of the…
On the Road to a Connected Community: INESC-ID PhD Students have their #2 Annual Meeting
After a very successful first edition in 2024, the INESC-ID PhD Student Community dedicated the morning of September 24 to their second Annual Meeting, in a room packed with almost fifty people and many activities prompting discussion of relevant themes and mingling between the students….
Joaquim Jorge Elected 2027 IEEE Computer Society President
INESC-ID researcher Joaquim Jorge, from the Graphics and Interaction scientific area, has been elected President of the IEEE Computer Society for 2027, after serving on the Society’s Board of Governors and leading multiple initiatives in the field of computing. A long-time contributor to the IEEE…
Powered by Research: INESC-ID goes the extra mile at the Tejo Run 2025
It was just after 8 a.m. on a sunny Sunday, September 14, and several members of the INESC-ID running group were already warming up, chatting, and sharing laughs near Algés station, a meeting point for thousands of runners and enthusiasts of all ages ahead of…
After the lights went out: MIT and INESC-ID researchers team up to prevent the next blackout
Long queues outside corner shops and bakeries. Supermarkets closed. Anxious people carrying gas cylinders, bags of charcoal, batteries, and candles. In an instant, and for several hours, the fast, digital rhythm of 21st-century life was unplugged. The unprecedented Iberian blackout that left Portugal and Spain…
In the Media: “The Scientists of the future?” Arlindo Oliveira reflects on AI systems and their role in science
“Will artificial intelligence systems of the (near or far) future be capable of creating new knowledge?” is the central question in the most recent opinion article by Arlindo Oliveira*, INESC-ID researcher and professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, published in Público, one of the main national…