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The pleasure of the 10 million
10 million Euros: if we didn’t have a right hemisphere of a brain, would we smile this much, and with such satisfaction?
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INESC Porto revolutionises security with collaborative surveillance robot
INESC Porto is part of a 1.2 million Euro consortium for the development of the first ‘intelligent’ surveillance robot – the ROBVIGIL. A pioneer project in the world, this robot is characterised by mobility, autonomy and by its ability to cooperate with other robots and security operationals through tele and videoconference, thus working as a support to human activity. Gifted with sensors, the robot is also capable of assuring tasks that are potentially dangerous for humans, thus setting itself apart from the solutions currently available on the market. The ROBVIGIL project has a two-year duration and the first experimental units will be on the market in 2012.
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Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of INESC in Porto
BIP is associating to the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of INESC in the city of Porto. As such, the “Special” section will, over the next months, visit each R&D Unit and group integrating the institute. More than “looking to the past”, the intention is to allow people to know INESC Porto LA’s current moment, the year in which INESC celebrates its 25th Anniversary in Porto, as well as the new goals and challenges that the next quarter of a century will bring.
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INESC Porto selected by UPORTO to welcome the European Universities Association
INESC Porto welcomed, on 23 March, an evaluation panel of the European Universities Association (EUA), in the context of the evaluation of the University of Porto.
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USE and USIG develop project for Greece
INESC Porto signed a consulting contract with the Public Power Corporation, the largest electrical power company in Greece, producing and distributing electricity for the entire country. The purpose is to define the architecture of the system that controls electric power grids in several Greek islands.
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UTM coordinates European project on user-provided networking
The area Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) had a new proposal approved for a STREP (Strategic Target Research Project) approved within the 5th call of the 7th Framework Programme (objective 1.1 - Network of the Future).
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UOSE researcher organizes CERN Master Class
Ariel Guerreiro, researcher at UOSE, was responsible for the participation of the University of Porto in the second edition of the CERN Master Class (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), which took place on 27 February at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Porto.
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UESP starts training for DINAMIC project
The Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) promoted, within the DINAMIC project, a 56-hour training that started in March and ended in April.
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Portuguese robotics in Brazilian waters
INESC Porto, through the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group (ROBIS), will participate in an ambitious project in Brazil, in a partnership with the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI).
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Power in Brasil: USE cooperates with UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro)
The Power Systems Unit (USE) will cooperate in a project in Brazil where the aim is to study the potential of distributed generation from alternative sources and its impact on the business of power distribution in AMPLA’s area of concession. This is a Brazilian company of the power sector controlled by the Spanish group ENDESA, which holds a vast area of concession in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
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USIG stars working on e-Care innovative project
The Information and Computer Graphics Systems (USIG) is participating in the European project "User-friendly ICT Tools to Enhance Self-Management and Effective Treatment of Depression in the EU (ICT4DEPRESSION)", within the 7th Framework programme, which kicked off on 25 January, in Amsterdam. This is a strongly innovative project since it is one of the first in the world to apply the concept of e-Health and e-Care in the context of mental illnesses.
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USE develops project for the islands of Cape Verde in Africa
The Power Systems Unit (USE) will start working on a project for MARTIFER RENEWABLES, involving the elaboration of several studies to assess the impact of the integration of electricity generated from wind power and solar photovoltaic resources for the islands of Cape Verde.
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UTM with project approved by the European Commission
The area of Multimedia of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) integrates the consortium of the CONVERGENCE project, which should start on the 1st semester of 2010. This project, recently approved by the European Commission (EC), was submitted to the 5th call of the 7th Framework-Programme in the context of the strategic goal "Future Internet Experimental Facility and Experimentally-driven Research". UTM’s funding for this project, which will be developed over the next two years, is 173 thousand Euros.
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UESP concludes project on demand forecasting for retail
The Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) has recently finished a project in the area of demand that can be applied in distribution and retail.
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PhD student from UOSE wins Student Award
Luís Fernandes, researcher at the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) and PhD student of the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), currently doing research work at the University of Toronto (Canada), presented an article at the conference Photonics West 2010, in San Francisco, awarded with one of the Student Awards.
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President of INESC Porto’s Scientific Advisory Board publishes new books
José Carlos Príncipe, President of INESC Porto’s Scientific Advisory Board and professor/researcher at the University of Florida (USA), recently published two books entitled Information Theoretic Learning and Kernel Adaptive Filtering.
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UOSE researcher represents Portugal in Sweden
Paulo Moreira, researcher at the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE), represented Portugal in a workshop that took place on 1 and 2 March, in Goteborg, in Sweden. The participation of the researcher in this workshop consisted of the presentation of the work “Optimization process of sol-gel organic-inorganic channel waveguide Bragg gratings patterned using a single photolithographic step”.
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Science perceived through the eyes of art
INESC Porto and the directors of the Master’s in Image Design of the University of Porto (FBAUP) opened, on 16 April, the exhibition «I Am Science», which can be visited until 30 April, Monday through Friday, from 10 to 12 am and from 3 to 5 pm.
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CRACS researcher is part of the Executive Committee for the Association for Logic Programming
Vítor Santos Costa, researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) of INESC Porto LA, was elected to be member of the Executive Committee for the Association for Logic Programming - ALP).
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LIADD, CRACS, UTM and USIG participate in online music recommendation project
The project of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF/QREN), Palco 3.0, from the company Palco Principal, in which both the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligent and Decision Support (LIAAD) and the Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), has recently launched a new online product.
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Limelight
Luís Fernandes, Pedro Carvalho and Luís Guardão
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Have your say
"I remember a few years ago a research colleague of mine saying with some indignation that the authors of scientific papers should receive royalties when they transfer copyrights to the publishers. The rationale behind it was simple...", Alípio Jorge
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Free Nonsense
"There are features that unite us, both Portuguese and Brazilian, and that are bigger than the language. And those are apparent in our way of being and in the way we live, in the refusal to live regulatory shapes and procedures that castrate the spontaneous.", José Celso Freire Júnior
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Gallery of the Uncommon
Seca is kind of a cool guy and he tucked his meal in his comforted stomach, but one thing he brought for sure from the Azores: the certainty that some people are cooler than him...
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Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls
In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC Porto offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.
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Biptoon
More scenes of how life goes merrily on...
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