“Treme-treme” recognized as a Best Practice by ObservIST 2022
Treme-treme — an educational game that engages children aged 7 to 9 years-old with seismic risk — has been recognized as one of twenty best practices by the 7th edition of ObservIST (which aims to identify and disseminate best practices at Instituto Superior Técnico). Developed…
Ana Sara Costa receives Doctoral Dissertation Award
Ana Sara Costa, an early career researcher who finished her PhD in Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico in 2020 (supervised by Professor José Figueira from CEG-IST and Professor José Borbinha from INESC-ID) has recently received the Doctoral Dissertation award at the 26th International…
Tell me what your proteome is and I’ll tell you what you are: the proteomic maps of 949 human cancer cell lines
Emanuel Gonçalves — INESC-ID Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability (ARSR) computational biology researcher — has published a groundbreaking study in the journal Cancer Cell (published online 14 July 2022). In the article Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines, the last study resulting from…
Isabel Trancoso featured in “90 Segundos de Ciência” radio program
Isabel Trancoso has been featured in 90 Segundos de Ciência, a popular science radio program broadcast by Antena 1 and co-produced by the radio station, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA) and Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH NOVA). In…
The July 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The July 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! Containing recent news from our researchers and their projects, open positions and some extra bits of content, our monthly newsletter is a great one-stop spot for great content on computer science and…
INESC-ID researcher Francisco C. Santos elected vice-president of FCT
Francisco C. Santos — INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS) researcher and Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has been elected as the new vice-president of FCT, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology…
Rui Prada completes his Habilitation in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada — INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has today successfully completed his Habilitation (Agregação) in Computer Science and Engineering….
HATE COVID-19.PT: Detecting hate speech in social media
A few weeks ago, the team that brought the FCT-funded HATE COVID-19.PT project to life met at INESC-ID. Since May 2021, HATE COVID-19.PT has developed methods for semi-automatically creating a large-scale Portuguese annotated corpus covering online hate speech, while exploring how the information in that…
Two robots walk into a bar: the AGENTS project is featured in Público
Automatic generation of humor for social robots (AGENTS) — an FCT- and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Portugal-funded project — has been featured in the Portuguese newspaper Público. Based at INESC-ID and ISCTE and coordinated by Ana Paiva, researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People…
Inês Lynce featured in Artificial Intelligence podcast
Inês Lynce — President of INESC-ID, as well as researcher within the Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability (ARSR) Research Area, Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and co-director of the CMU Portugal Program — has been featured in Gato de Schrödinger (“Schrödinger’s cat”), Exame Informática‘s…
