HATE COVID-19.PT: a project that will automatically detect online hate speech in Portuguese
Direct verbal insults. Offensive and insulting words with intent to depreciate. Physical threats to the lives of others or their families. Statistics show that Covid-19 has led to an increase in hate speech. Several European and international institutions have issued recommendations on combating racism, xenophobia…
Alberto Abad was elevated to senior member of IEEE
According to IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, “Senior Membership is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession”. “It’s an honor for me to receive such a recognition from IEEE. The area of human language technologies…
SparCity: the new collaborative project to create a supercomputing framework
SparCity, a new EuroHPC Joint Undertaking project, was launched. The project aims to build a sustainable exascale ecosystem and increasing Europe’s competitiveness. The project involves six player organisations in the area of high-performance computing from Portugal, Germany, Norway and Turkey. Recently funded by the European…
António Menezes Leitão honored with the Sasada Prize 2021
The 2021 Sasada Prize has been awarded to the INESC-ID researcher António Menezes Leitão. António is a senior researcher of the Graphics and Interaction Group at INESC-ID and Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. “I had very good teachers but one of them changed my…
New book “Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous”
“Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous” is based on the master’s thesis of Afonso Botelho, winner of the Luis Vidigal Prize, which was guided jointly by João Miranda Lemos, researcher at INESC-ID and professor at IST, and by Baltazar Parreira and Paulo Rosa of DEIMOS Engenharia….
INESC-ID researcher Luis M. Correia honored with the 2021 EurAAP Propagation Award
The EurAAP (European Association on Antennas and Propagation) recognised Luis M. Correia with the 2021 EurAAP Propagation Award “for leadership in the field of propagation for wireless and mobile communications” Luis M. Correia specific area of work involves the development of models for the propagation…
Promoting circular economy in the construction sector: Técnico researchers participate in projects with a total allocation of more than 1M€
CERIS leads the C+D project and participates in the CirMat project. The CircularEcoBIM project also involves CERIS researchers, as well as IN+ and INESC-ID researchers. Several Técnico researchers are involved in three projects aimed at promoting circular economy in the construction sector, selected by the…
Detecção de COVID-19 a partir de tosse e fala
Projeto de Investigação para detecção da COVID-19 a partir de tosse e fala E se fosse possível saber se alguém está infetado com coronavirus apenas através dos sons que produz a tossir ou ao falar? Graças a algoritmos de Inteligência Artificial, em breve pode tornar-se…
“Sopa para Todos” / “Soup for Everyone”: a meal waiting for those who can’t afford it
Ricardo Rodrigues, researcher at INESC-ID, is part of the group of 8 volunteers from the solidarity movement “Sopa Para Todos”, which intends to help the necessary families and, at the same time, support the restoration. It was from your hands that the website was created…
Inês Lynce is one of the scientists honored in the book “Women in Science”
Ciência Viva launched today, March 8, International Women’s Day, the book Women in Science (“Mulheres na Ciência”) where pays tribute to Portuguese women scientists. The third edition of this book brought together 101 new faces and testimonies of women who work in research in our…
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.”