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INESC Porto strengthened by ISEP prepares to export robotic technology
INESC Port and ISEP (Higher Engineering Institute in Porto) formalised the merger of their robotics groups - The Robotics and Intelligent Systems Unit (ROBIS) and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (LSA) on 16th February 2011. Close to 50 collaborators will become part of the new Robotics Unit at INESC Porto which aims to take on a more international dimension and look to rapidly expanding markets. This is a strategic move from the group which is now the largest robotics unit in the north of Portugal. Highlights from the ceremony of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding include the exhibition of robotics equipment with TriMARES, the underwater surveillance robot that will be exported to Brazil, as the centre piece.
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INESC Porto project ShoeID is the key to the success of the Kyaia Group
The Portuguese Footwear Group Kyaia is one of the winners of the European RETA awards (Retail Technologies Awards) from the EHI Retail Institute. The Group was awarded the Best Enterprise Solution prize for their project ShoeID which was developed in conjunction with INESC Porto. The award acknowledges the improvements made by the Kyaia Group using RFID technology (Radio Frequency Identification) throughout the logistics chain of their international brand FLY London.
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INESC Porto at the forefront of renal transplantations
In April INESC Porto began project KEP to look for new models to enhance the kidney transplantation process. The aim of this project is to research and develop new methods to facilitate and improve the decisions associated with kidney transplants that involve live donors.
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INESC Porto supports the adoption of the Digital Local Agenda in European Regions
INESC Porto is supporting the adoption and implementation of the Digital Local Agenda (DLA) in Europe. The DLA aims to improve living conditions for citizens through eInclusion strategies for local populations using ICT and with the support of civil servants in order to improve infrastructures, eGovernance and eInclusion.
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INESC Porto IT System will Assess Breast Cancer Interventions
The latest challenge for the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) at INESC Porto is to create a leading system to compare the aesthetic results of breast cancer conservative treatment.
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INESC Porto LA provides tools to aid network reconfiguration in Brazil
The Power Systems Unit (USE) and the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) at INESC Porto LA will be taking part in project SIMULESP (Simulador Especialista de Tempo Real Para Apoio A Decisão) in collaboration with Eletropaulo (São Paulo, Brazil).
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INESC Porto helps Greek electricity company prepare application for European Funding
With the help of INESC Porto’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG), the Power Systems Unit (USE) coordinated and prepared a proposal for the European Programme NER300, on behalf of the Public Power Corporation (PPC), the largest Greek electricity company.
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INESC Porto presents results for European project ANEMOS.plus
The Power Systems Unit (USE) at INESC Porto has presented the results of the European project ANEMOS.plus in a workshop organised by the Portuguese Electricity Grid (REN). The workshop took place on 23rd March with close to 70 participants from the professional electrical sector and academia.
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INESC Porto Researcher supports training in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nuno Fidalgo, from the Power Systems Unit (USE) at INESC Porto, visited Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina to give lectures for an advanced training course in “Load Research Training”. This is part of an initiative sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the Regulatory and Energy Assistance Project (REAP).
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Russian Academy of Sciences visits INESC Porto
INESC Porto was host to a delegation from the Chernogolovka campus of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the aim of establishing a collaboration protocol between the two institutions.
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Inter-Unit Collaboration at INESC Porto
Following the pioneering pre-LAI (Inter-unit Line of Action) on Optimisation (OIL), a second pre-LAI at INESC Porto is being planned that will be dedicated to Signal Processing and Machine Learning (SPML).
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INESC Porto Researchers Cross Borders
Ricardo Sousa, Hélder Oliveira, researchers at INESC Porto's Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) and Leonel Carvalho from the Power Systems Unit (USE), will be spending the next few months in Brazil and Italy. Hélder Oliveira will be hosted by the scientific technological university the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, Ricardo Sousa will be hosted by the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil and Leonel Carvalho will be hosted by the the Federal University of Itajubá in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Russian team wins hand geometric points detection competition organised by INESC Porto
The Moscow Continuous Skeleton Team (MCST) were the winners of the first edition of the Hand Geometric Points Detection Competition (HGC2011), organised by INESC Porto. The competition registered 15 participants from nine different countries.
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INESC Porto LA is now on facebook and twitter
INESC Porto LA now has a facebook page. You can check it out at: INESC Porto LA on facebook.
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Researcher from LIAAD and CRACS winner at CONET/EWSN 2011 Master and PhD Thesis Awards
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, a researcher from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) and collaborator at the Center for Research in Advanced Computer Systems (CRACS), won the award for the Best PhD Academic Work - CONET/EWSN 2011 with his dissertation on “Learning from Ubiquitous Data Streams: Clustering Data and Data Sources”. He defended the dissertation in October 2010 at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP) and his dissertation supervisors were João Gama (LIAAD and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto - FEP) and Luís Lopes (CRACS and FCUP).
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LIAAD organises 10th edition of the International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) is organising the International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA2011) which will take place in Porto from 29th to 31st October. The leading topics include intelligent data analysis, intelligent support for modelling and analysing complex, dynamical systems.
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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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