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Nuno Cruz, Ricardo André and Luís Seca

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"I know that INESC Porto offers great competencies and facilities in OFS; this means that we can develop the best sensor configurations and interrogation techniques for the sensing platforms...", Mohammad Zibaii

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"The relaxed atmosphere, spirit of mutual aid and the exchange of scientific knowledge between colleagues at INESC Porto are all positive factors for me, but it was the projects I have been involved in that have really contributed to my scientific development...", Lucian Ciobanu

Gallery of the Uncommon

Following the analysis of the aesthetics of breasts, the researchers at INESC Porto have turned their attention to the pelvic region. The project is called BioPelvic and consists of a vaginometer which is not to be confused with any other mileage meter. This is a phallic device with sensors and yes ladies, there is a wireless version.

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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More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

Researcher from LIAAD and CRACS winner at CONET/EWSN 2011 Master and PhD Thesis Awards

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).

The CONET/EWSN 2011 awards aim to acknowledge academic work in the area of Cooperating Objects and assessed Masters and PhD dissertations completed at European universities between December 2009 and November 2010.

There are two awards for each academic level – the best academic work and the best industrial work. Pedro Pereira Rodrigues’ dissertation was acknowledged within the academic category.

This contest was established in 2009 and is promoted by the leading network Cooperating Objects (CONET) in association with the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN).

Read the award-winning dissertation here.

For more information: Cooperating Objects.