INCISTA Internships
Last week took place at IST-Taguspark Campus the INCISTA Internships, under the program ‘Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Criar Futuro’. This internship, coordinated by the Professor Moisés Piedade, receive high school students and invite them to increase knowledge about the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Informatics,…
INESC-ID Evaluation
We are very proud and satisfied to announce the evaluation of R&D Units that we received from FCT this month. We were classified as excellent in all the evaluation parameters, which distinguish the ‘quality, merit relevance and internationalization of the R&D activities of the Integrated…
INESC -ID 20 Years – Museu do Oriente
INESC-ID celebrated the 20th anniversary with a special event that took place at Museu do Oriente. The ceremony started with the intervention of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor. We had two special panels discussing both ‘Grandes Desafios de Investigação para…
Science and Technology Summit 2019
It has ended yesterday another edition of Science and Technology Summit, an event that promotes debates in the most varied areas of science, and also, allows an interaction between researchers, companies and the visiting public. We were present in another edition with the exhibition of…
Ana Paiva Elected EurAI Fellow
We are proud to announce that our researcher Ana Paiva, from the research group Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters (GAIPS), was elected EurAI Fellow by the EurAI Fellows committee 2019. The EurAi Fellows program was created by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1999,…
Best thesis in France – Thomas Durieux
The doctoral thesis «From Runtime Failures to Patches: Study of Patch Generation in Production» of our researcher Thomas Durieux was distinguished with the 2nd place of best thesis in France last week. The researcher Thomas is supervised by the Rui Maranhão, from the research group…
Socio-Cognitive Systems Journal
The INESC-ID researcher Rui Prada is one of the members of the Socio-Cognitive Systems Journal board editorial. This new journal will be officially launched early in 2020 but they are already accepting submissions in their website. Also, an editorial talking about the topic will be…
‘IoT Board for Agriculture Applications’ at Keep in Touch 2019
INESC-ID has been present in Keep in Touch 2019 with the ‘IoT Board for Agriculture Applications’ demo, presented by the researcher João Tagaio. The Internet of Things (IoT) allows the connection of different devices to the internet. Therefore, is possible to obtain a series of…
AAMAS 2019 – Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
Fernando Pedro, a former student from GAIPS won the Victor Lesser distinguished dissertation award with the these ‘Reputation Dynamics and the Self-organization of Cooperation’, at AAMAS 2019. Moreover, six members of GAIPS Team, led by the researcher Ana Paiva, presented their work at the international…
QualiChain: Blockchain for education and employment qualifications
INESC-ID is one of the ten partners of Qualichain, a European project focused on the assessment of the implications at technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural levels of Blockchain technology for verifying education and employment qualifications. Also, QualiChain specifies in the “impact – in terms…
Upcoming Events
OLISSIPO Workshop: “How to design a graphical abstract” with Dr. Rita Félix (CNC-UC)
On April 19, the OLISSIPO project will host an 8-hour workshop titled “How to design a graphical abstract” with Dr. Rita Félix, a science communicator, illustrator and designer from CNC Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (Coimbra, Portugal). Registration is free and seating is limited.
Registration Deadline: April 5 | Register here (free but mandatory)
Date & Time: April 19, 09h00-18h00 ( 8-hours)
Where: INESC-ID, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa | Room 9 (Auditorium), Ground Floor
Summary: “How to design a graphical abstract” Workshop aims to explain what a graphical abstract is, and give you design tools and tips on how to create a better, clear and engaging graphical abstract. This workshop is tailored to give you tools and improve your graphical abstract, without having to learn how to use a new software program (like Adobe Illustrator). Bring your graphical abstract, share it with the class, work on it and take home a new version.
Short Bio: Rita Félix is a science communicator, illustrator and designer, with life sciences research experience. Currently working as the Institutional Communication Manager and Designer at CNC-UC. She completed her PhD in Neuroscience in 2020, in the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. After that, she enrolled in a Digital Illustration Specialization Course to further develop her visualization and design skills. Worked as a Scientific Graphic Designer at Science Crunchers, a science communication company, where she developed multiple graphical abstracts, article figures, infographics, diagrams, illustrations, visual identity, logos and webdesign for companies, scientific institutions and Horizon 2020 consortia. More information at https://ritallfelix.wixsite.com/portfolio .
INESC-ID talk: “Rise of the AI-Empowered End User Software Engineer” by Ed Ayers and Andy Gordon (Cogna)
On April 19, INESC-ID will host a talk by Ed Ayers and Andy Gordon from the startup Cogna. The talk is titled “Rise of the AI-Empowered End User Software Engineer” and is organised by INESC-ID researcher Nuno Lopes.
Date & Time: April 19, 15h00 -16h00
Where: INESC-ID, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa | Room 9 (Auditorium), Ground Floor
Summary:
“What if natural language really is the new programming language? Inspired by the transformation of professional software engineering by generative AI, let’s take the next step: empowering end users. We can boost their productivity with hyper-customized software generated from natural language. This challenge needs research right across software engineering: requirements, architecture, coding, testing, verification, repair, and maintenance. We will survey current progress and open research questions in this exciting new area of programming language research.”
(Photo: Cogna website)