Offside
Limelight

Luís Fernandes, Pedro Carvalho and Luís Guardão

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

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

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...

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.

Biptoon

More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

UTM with project approved by the European Commission

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.

CONVERGENCE’s aim is to develop a content-centric innovative approach to complement and improve the current internet architecture. This approach is based on the concept of Virtual Digital Item (VDI), which intends to be an extension of the concept of Digital Item and of the specifications associated to the MPEG-21 standard of the Moving Pictures Expert Group.

The consortium of the CONVERGENCE project is set up by 12 partners from six European countries, and led by the Consorzio Nazionale InterUniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT). Other than INESC Porto, Portugal is represented in this consortium by the company WIPRO.