Arlindo Oliveira featured in radio program on Artificial Intelligence
Arlindo Oliveira — INESC-D researcher, President of INESC and Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico — participated in a radio program for the Portuguese radio network Rádio Renascença where he spoke on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and one of its newest outputs, ChatGPT. An AI-based chatbot…
CMU Portugal Program announced 2023/2024 call for PhD scholarships
The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal), supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), will have an OPEN CALL between February 15 and March 31, 2023, under the “Affiliated Ph.D. Programs”. This initiative is addressed to students who wish to study at a Portuguese University with a research period at Carnegie…
The February 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The February 2023 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! You can read it here. 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…
Ana Paiva elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Ana Paiva has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). A researcher within the INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (as well as the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at…
INESC Brussels HUB Winter Meeting 2023: at the forefront of innovation
The 2023 INESC Brussels HUB Winter Meeting took place over the past two days, 30 and 31 January 2023, at Instituto Superior Técnico. Co-organized with Science Business (a network that strives to bridge industry, research and policy nationally and at the EU level), the 2023…
Nuno Lopes receives HiPEAC Tech Transfer Award 2022
Nuno Lopes is one of the winners of the 2022 HiPEAC Tech Transfer Awards. Lopes — a Researcher at the High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) Research Area — was awarded this distinction for Alive2, an automatic compiler verification tool. On winning the award,…
The January 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The January 2023 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! You can read it here. 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…
EV4EU’s new website is up: more on the massification of electric vehicles
The EV4EU project (“Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe”) — a 4-year venture funded by the European Union in 9 million euros through Horizon Europe and coordinated by INESC-ID — has a brand new website! Detailing how EV4EU will implement user-centric Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)…
INESC-ID Early Stage Researcher Talks: by students, for students
Yesterday, 11 January 2022, saw the first session of the INESC-ID Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Talks. Designed specifically to provide students, as well as early-stage postdocs, with an exclusive space that is their own, where they can present, chat and discuss any topic of their…
iv4XR: Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems
iv4XR (Intelligent Verification/Validation for Extended Reality Based Systems), a Horizon 2020-funded European project, finished its run on 31 December 2022 with some very exciting outputs. Coordinated by Rui Prada — INESC-ID Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at Instituto Superior…
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.”