New book on electricity production from renewable energy sources
Rui Castro — a researcher in the Sustainable Power Systems Group at INESC-ID and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has published a new book: Electricity Production from Renewables (Springer Nature, 2022). In Electricity Production from…
SenToy stars in IST’s “110 Histórias | 110 Objetos” podcast
This week’s episode of the “110 Histórias | 110 Objetos” podcast (which roughly translates to “110 Stories | 110 Objects”) features SenToy: a faceless, genderless and ageless toy, developed to communicate emotions to a computer and interact with a video game. SenToy originated in a…
OLISSIPO Twin Seminar III
We are happy to announce the next OLISSIPO Twin Seminar on Computational Biology – Protein driven machine learning and network approaches for precision medicine – which will take place online on 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:30 (WEST – Lisbon) / 14:00-15:30 (CEST). This seminar will be…
Joaquim Jorge selected as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor
Joaquim Jorge, a researcher at INESC-ID’s Graphics and Interaction (GI) group and Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico, has been selected as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, an honor conferred to some of the most accomplished leaders in tech. Selection as a…
INESC-ID coordinates a European project on electric mobility
The EV4EU project, with a duration of 4 years, is funded by the European Union in 9 million euros through Horizon Europe, the new research and innovation programme for the period 2021-2027. Studies indicate that the massive use of electric vehicles will significantly contribute to…
New exploratory research projects at INESC-ID supported by FCT and CMU Portugal program
The CMU Portugal Program supports the launch of Exploratory Research Projects (ERPs) on a regular basis, with the main objective of promoting Portugal’s international competitiveness and innovation capacity in Science and Technology (S&T) in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the 2021 call, from a…
Research project ID-GAMING awarded by Erasmus+ Agency for Education and Training
The ID-GAMING research project was awarded by the Erasmus+ National Agency Education and Training. The Inclusive E+ Awards ceremony will be on November 30th. This Erasmus+ international project, which principal researcher at INESC-ID is Rui Prada, expects to increase the competences of persons with intellectual…
Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021
The paper “Fitting the room: Social Motivation for Context-aware Agents” by Diogo Rato, Marta Couto and Rui Prada was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021.
Science and Technology 2021 week
Between November 25th and 26th 2021, INESC-ID will develop activities for primary and secondary schools within the scope of the Semana da Ciência & Tecnologia 2021 promoted by Ciência Viva. These activities aim to disseminate the area of Computational Biology, bring scientists closer to the…
INESC Hub Winter Meeting’21
The INESC Brussels HUB will organise its Winter Meeting 2021 in Coimbra. You will be able to hear from and discuss directly with major EU stakeholders and the European Commission!