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…
“Artificial Intelligence, Cooperation and Social Robotics” at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
Lisbon Academy of Sciences promoted another “Tardes na Academia“, on March 26th, at 5pm. On this IV Session, INESC-ID Researcher Francisco C. Santos invites Ana Paiva, also researcher at INESC-ID, for an afternoon on: “Artificial Intelligence, Cooperation and Social Robotics”. This initiative aims to engage…
Workshop “Computational Intelligence: some recent advances and applications”
The Workshop “Computational Intelligence: some recent advances and applications” took place on March 25th, from 9am to 5pm, at Abreu Faro Amphitheatre.
Upcoming Events
NII International Internship Programme Presentation and Q&A by Emmanuel Planas
On April 30, Emmanuel Planas, the acting director of the Global Liaison Office (GLO) and responsible for the internationalisation program at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, will give a presentation to introduce the NII and its internship program to INESC-ID students and IST’s Master’s in Computer Science students.
Date & Time: April 30, 14h00
Where: Sala Polivalente, Técnico – Taguspark
“The NII International Internship Program is an exchange activity with students from institutions with which NII has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement. This incentive program aims at giving interns the opportunity for professional and personal development by engaging in research activities under the guidance and supervision of NII researchers.
The NII Internship Program is open to Research Master’s and PhD students who are currently enrolled at one of the partner institutions that have signed an MOU agreement with NII.”
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.”