Leonel Sousa appointed to the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee
Leonel Sousa, researcher at INESC-ID and professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, was appointed to the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee, and is among the 8 nominees who will be part of the committee responsible for the oversight of the program. “After an excellent experience,…
ILU: A technology to help improve Urban Mobility
INESC-ID is developing a project in partnership with National Civil Engineering Laboratory, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon Municipality), and the major public carriers in the Lisbon metropolitan area with the aim of aligning urban mobility plans with the emerging traffic dynamics. The ILU project (Integrative…
INESC-ID researchers awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper
A joint team of researchers including INESC-ID researchers Vasco Manquinho and Pedro Orvalho will receive an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for their work on a new analysis engine for the popular Alloy modeling language. The paper “AlloyMax: Bringing Maximum Satisfaction…
CIMPLE: Countering Creative Information Manipulation with Explainable AI
What’s the role that Artificial Intelligence can play in fighting misinformation? CIMPLE project aims to research and develop innovative social and knowledge driven creative AI explanations, and testing it in the domain of detection and tracking of manipulated information, while taking into account social, psychological,…
INESC-ID researchers are among the best scientists in the world in the field of Computer Science
5 INESC-ID researchers are among the world’s top computer scientists, according to the 7th edition of Top Scientists Ranking for Computer Science & Electronics, released by Guide2Research. Once again, the highest number of Portuguese scientists is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico. Among the 24 Portuguese…
SparCity: the new collaborative project to create a supercomputing framework
SparCity, a new EuroHPC Joint Undertaking project, was launched. The project aims to build a sustainable exascale ecosystem and increasing Europe’s competitiveness. The project involves six player organisations in the area of high-performance computing from Portugal, Germany, Norway and Turkey. Recently funded by the European…
INESC-ID researcher Luis M. Correia honored with the 2021 EurAAP Propagation Award
The EurAAP (European Association on Antennas and Propagation) recognised Luis M. Correia with the 2021 EurAAP Propagation Award “for leadership in the field of propagation for wireless and mobile communications” Luis M. Correia specific area of work involves the development of models for the propagation…
EPEEC Partners BSC and INESC-ID Improve Multi-Device Performance of OmpSs2@OpenACC
In the context of the EPEEC project, a research team from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC) has developed in close collaboration with a team from INESC-ID a new programming tool that significantly eases the development of programs running on multi-GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) systems. By…
Project to detect COVID-19 from coughs and speech
What if it was possible to detect whether someone has COVID-19 or not, just from the sounds of their coughing or talking? It sounds like science fiction, but it may soon come true. This is the goal of the project “Detecção de COVID-19 a partir…
Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19 chest X-ray diagnosis
The DeepPathCOVIDx project will allow to develop of a solution that will assist healthcare professionals in the analysis of chest X-ray images. A team of researchers from Técnico and INESC-ID, in collaboration with Hospital da Luz Learning Health, is developing a solution consisting of AI…