Two INESC-ID PhD students selected as “3 Minute Thesis” finalists
Two INESC-ID PhD students have been selected as part of the 12-strong group of finalist for the 3 Minutos de Tese (3 Minute Thesis) science communication competition. Catarina Botelho and Diogo Nunes — PhD students in the INESC-ID Human Language Technologies research area — will…
How to generate algorithms: Diogo Vaz featured in Público’s article series by PhD students
Diogo Vaz — a PhD student in the Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS) research area — has published a piece on his research work in the Portuguese newspaper Público (following Diogo Nunes’ recent piece in the same publication). As Diogo recounts, his “work intends…
Girls in ICT Day 2023: GIRLSTEAM @ Taguspark
The Instituto Superior Técnico Taguspark community recently celebrated Girls in ICT Day 2023 on 27 April with GIRLSTEAM 2023, a program of activities and demonstrations for more than 200 primary and secondary school students. Organized to encourage young women to train in STEAM disciplines (that…
In Memoriam: Daniel Charles Ferreira Porto
É com pesar que comunicamos o falecimento do nosso amigo, colega e investigador Daniel Charles Ferreira Porto. Após obter o seu mestrado pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Daniel terminou o doutoramento em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores pelo Instituto Superior Técnico e INESC-ID (na…
The April 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The April 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…
The 2022 INESC-ID Annual Report is out!
The 2022 INESC-ID Annual Report is out! Our newly re-designed report, published in Portuguese, features all the details and relevant data that tell the story of the innovative and forward-facing Information and Communications Technologies research environment that INESC-ID is. You can download our 2022 Annual…
Diogo Nunes featured in Público’s article series by PhD students
What can a computational analysis of the language of pain tell us about the lived experience of chronic pain? Diogo Nunes, a PhD student at INESC-ID’s Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area and Instituto Superior Técnico, tells us a great many things about his doctoral…
Mário Silva featured in “90 Segundos de Ciência” radio program
Mário Silva has been featured in 90 Segundos de Ciência, a popular science radio program broadcast by Antena 1 and co-produced by the radio station, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA) and Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH NOVA). In…
The 13th Lisbon Machine Learning School will take place at IST in July
The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2023) will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) as a 6-day event (14-20 July, 2023), scheduled to take place in-person. The school covers a range of machine learning topics, from theory to practice, that are important in…
Inês Lynce discusses AI and ChatGPT in “Comunicações” magazine
Inês Lynce — Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability researcher at INESC-ID, as well as President of its Board of Directors, and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico — discussed AI and one of its most recently notorious outputs, ChatGPT, in the recent issue of Comunicações…