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“Companies that create the digital. Companies that the digital recreated” – this is the theme that will gather about two hundred people in the Almeida Garret Library in Porto on 23 October at 10:30 AM. The challenges posed by the digital revolutionised several industries at a global level, namely the media industry, producing new types of consumers and new business models to generate revenues. The questions arising from these changes are multiple: how do traditional Portuguese companies reinvent themselves while facing the challenges posed by the digitalisation? What is the strategy of Portugal for the digitalisation in the Portuguese industry?

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Five technological solutions – three used in agriculture and two used in forest – representing an investment of around EUR 7.4 million, will be exhibited in the largest agricultural fair in Portugal, the Agroglobal 2018. It will take place in Valada do Ribatejo (Santarém) between 5 and 7 September in the exhibition space of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) in the Agro Inov Pavilion (Technology Pavilion).

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Leonel Carvalho and Vladimiro Miranda once again won the competition organised by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's most prestigious and largest professional organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and technology. This is the third time that the researchers of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) have won this competition organised by the IEEE, having won all the editions so far (in 2014, 2017 and 2018), also being the only Portuguese­ researchers to win the award. In order to solve the problems proposed in 2018 by the “Modern Heuristic Optimization” competition, both researchers were accompanied by three more researchers – Armando Leite da Silva, Carolina Marcelino and Elizabeth Wanner.

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After three years, with the collaboration of 11 international partners and EUR 4 million funded by the European Commission, transmission speeds that achieved 10 Gbps (when the normal is 1 Gbps) were demonstrated for the first time at a global level. All thanks to some devices called resonant tunneling diode (RTDs), which are new wireless transceiver technologies that resembles small, low-cost and energy-efficient chips that allow the ultra-fast data transmission integrated with the optical fibre network.

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Margarida Carvalho is the first Portuguese woman awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award, a distinction that recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations in the operational research (OR) field. This is the first time that a Portuguese researcher wins this award that assesses the uniqueness and novelty of the thesis, the relevance for the OR field, the range and depth of the results, the inputs in the research areas and the quality of the corresponding publications.