
INESC-ID celebrates Técnico’s 111th birthday with an afternoon of technology outreach
Today — 23 May 2022 — Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) celebrates its 111th birthday while hosting Dia do Técnico, its annual Open Day.
INESC-ID took part in Dia do Técnico by hosting games and activities on conservation biology, augmented reality and telecommunications with the collaboration of researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI).
With visits from students and families of all ages, Dia do Técnico is a great opportunity for varied publics to get a flavour of the research and teaching taking place at IST, with INESC-ID joining the party with a flare of technology outreach.
Upcoming Events
Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada: “Agregação” (Habilitation) in Computer Science and Engineering

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, will present a course unit report and a seminar in order to be awarded his Agregação (Habilitation) in Computer Science and Engineering on 28th and 29th June 2022.
Rui Prada will present the course unit report titled Specialisation in Games at 08:30am on 28th June 2022 (available on Zoom), followed by the seminar Human–Agent Interaction – Building Socially Intelligent Agents in
Games at 08:30am on 29th June 2022 (available on Zoom).
More details are available here.
ESSIR 2022: 13th European Summer School in Information Retrieval

This year’s edition of ESSIR, a 5-day teaching event on Information Retrieval (IR) and related research topics, will take place between 18-23 July 2022. The event is organized by NOVA LINCS (FCT UNL), INESC ID and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the support of the CMU Portugal Program and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
The event will also incorporate the new edition of the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA), which will provide a forum for early researchers to present their research in a friendly environment, while among senior researchers.
The summer school is addressed to students, Master’s students, Ph.D. Researchers, Industry and Academia practitioners. No deep previous knowledge of IR or ML is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic computer science and mathematics background.
The Summer School will be held at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
The early registration deadline is June the 15th 2022, and the application form is available online.
EPIA’22: EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established European conference. The 21st edition of the EPIA conference will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico by 2022.
As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
The purpose of this conference is to promote research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines.
For further details please visit the EPIA’22 website.