“Blockchain and Digital Identity: DIDs, VCs, and EBSI” – Keynote speech by Miguel Pupo Correia at the Madeira Blockchain Conference
“If you pick a grain of sand, what is the probability that two of us pick the same one?” With this example, Miguel Pupo Correia, President of the INESC-ID Executive Committee, illustrates the probabilistic uniqueness of DIDs (Decentralised Identifiers), during his keynote “Blockchain and Digital…
INESC Lisboa Annual Meeting keynote speaker, Dejan Milojicic, on Technology Megatrends and the role of AI as an equalizer
It took Dejan Milojicic more than twenty years to understand the way of life in the United States. “Now I am at peace”, he shares, before delivering the keynote lecture at INESC Lisboa Annual Meeting. For the last 15 years, the HPE Fellow and VP,…
Addressing Gender Imbalance in Academia: Insights from CMU’s Jeria Quesenberry
“Fighting gender imbalance is not hard. In fact, it is much easier than nuclear physics or Artificial Intelligence,” states Jeria Quesenberry, professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and author of the book “Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie…
Exploring programming languages at Philip Wadler’s Distinguished Lecture. From Ancient Greece to modern cryptography
Wearing a khaki suit and a Panama hat, Philip Wadler meets his audience for the Distinguished Lecture (Programming Languages) in Agda = Programming (Languages in Agda), organized within the scope of the BIG ERA Chair Project. This time, we got the explorer’s look. For other…
Distinguished Lecture – Keshab K. Parhi
November 19th, at Técnico – Alameda campus “Accelerator Architectures for Deep Neural Networks: Inference and Training”. – 2 pm – EA3 We are pleased to announce a new IST Distinguished Lecture, on 19th November, with the support of the “Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP)” at the Institute of…
40 Years of Science and Knowledge
Celebrating INESC 40th anniversary, three sessions will take place in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra: Porto – Empowering companies to face new challenges – July 6 Lisbon – Creating new technology-based companies – October 8 Coimbra – Relation with the academic world – October The first…
Programming Non-Volatile Memory
James Larus, School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)”” – Abstract: New memory technologies are changing the computer systems landscape. Motivated by the power limitations of DRAM, new, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies — such as ReRAM, PCM, and…
Bioinformatics: a Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology? (INESC-ID and IST Distinguished Lecture)
Pavel A. Pevzner, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California at San Diego Abstract While some experimental biologists view bioinformatics as a servant, I argue that it is rapidly turning into the queen of molecular biology. I will illustrate this view by showing…
Distinguished Lecture Series
AI for Social Good: Learning and Planning in the End-to-End, Data-to-Deployment Pipeline Prof. Milind Tambe University of Southern California 17/04/2019 Room 0.19/0.20, IST – Pavilhão de Informática II, Alameda | 13:30H Abstract With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a…
Distinguished Lecture Series
Generating Software Tests Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Institute for IT Security 15/04/2019 Anfiteatro VA4 no piso-1 do Edificio de Civil – IST/Alameda | 11:00H Abstract Software has bugs. What can we do to find as many of these as possible? In this talk, I show…