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INESC TEC researchers awarded in Fraunhöfer competition

Nuno Moniz, from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), and João Monteiro, from the Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), both INESC TEC researchers, were two of the winners of the Fraunhöfer Portugal Challenge 2017. This competition awards research works that demonstrate practicality and promote cooperation between the industry and the scientific community, in two categories (Master’s and PhDs).

31st October 2017

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INESC TEC inaugurates the most advanced virtual reality laboratory of the Iberian Peninsula

On the 18th of September, INESC TEC inaugurated the MASSIVE Virtual Reality Laboratory, the most advanced of the Iberian Peninsula in this field.

02nd October 2017

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Project RELECT of INESC TEC gathers data to study environmental radioactivity

Within the scope of the work developed by INESC TEC in the field of environmental radioactivity, with an emphasis on geoscientific applications like monitoring radon gas, the RELECT (Radioactivity and Electric field monitoring campaign at Hyytiälä) campaign took place in the SMEAR II station, in Finland, between the 12th and 16 th of June, with funding by project ENVRIplus.

18th July 2017

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A session to discuss data management strategy for Portugal and Spain

Discussing data management strategy for Portugal and Spain. This was the main goal of the initiative promoted under the 9th plenum of RDA – Research Data Alliance, in Barcelona, centred on the subject «Data Infrastructures for Open Science».

30th May 2017

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STRONGMAR Winter School

Project STRONGMAR, which started on the early 2016, had now its second edition of the Winter School programme, called Winter School on Underwater Sensing Science.

24th April 2017

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Project CE4Blind improves quality of life of the visually impaired

INESC TEC, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States, and ACAPO (the Portuguese Association for the Visually Impaired), has developed a mobile digital platform capable of improving the quality of life of the visually impaired in a non-invasive manner.

06th December 2016

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US Navy funds INESC TEC project

INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) has submitted an application to the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) of the United States of America, where the goal is to study new algorithms to monitor multiple objects in extreme light conditions. The application has now been approved.

05th December 2016

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INESC TEC researchers receive 100 thousand euros from the Google Innovation Fund

Google's Digital News Initiative (DNI) innovation fund, which aims to support and encourage innovation in digital journalism over the next three years, has offered around € 100,000 to fund two projects by researchers at INESC TE’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), developed jointly by the University of Porto.

02nd December 2016

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INESC TEC and APDL celebrate 20 years of partnership

INESC TEC and the APDL (Port Authority for the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo, SA) signed an addendum to their cooperation protocol during the Business2Sea, formerly called the Sea Fair. This year the initiative took place at the Alfândega do Porto Congress Centre on November 16.

30th November 2016

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INESC TEC in COST Action on atmospheric electricity

INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) is involved in a COST Action on atmospheric electricity, a multi-disciplinary subject that deals with the electric field of the Earth's atmosphere and how this influences the Earth and biological systems. The COST Action kicked off on 4 October and is expected to last four years.

27th October 2016

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INESC TEC organises conference on Computing, Communication and Aesthetics

The call for papers is now open for the conference xCoAx - Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X, an event organised by INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), which will take place in July 2017 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. The deadline for submission of papers is 29 January 2017.

25th October 2016

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Office of Naval Research Global visits INESC TEC

On 25 August, INESC TEC welcomed a delegation from the US Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG). The goal with this visit was to showcase INESC TEC’s work in the sea component.

12th October 2016

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