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INESC TEC technology in the skies
The European project DAPHNE, in the area of optical fibre communication systems for civil aircraft, which involved INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), has reached a conclusion in February.
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Director at INESC TEC wins IEEE excellence award
Last March, Vladimiro Miranda, director of INESC Porto (the entity coordinating the INESC TEC Associate Laboratory), was elected to receive the IEEE Power & Energy Society Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award.
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INESC TEC publishes record number of scientific papers
INESC TEC, which brings together close to 700 researchers, of which 230 have PhDs, continues to maintain a high level of excellence in the science and technology produced by its researchers. Proof of that is the exponential increase in the publication of scientific papers.
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INESC TEC joins network of excellence of European laboratories
Following the establishment of the Laboratory of Microgeneration and Electric Vehicles, INESC TEC will be joining the DERlab - European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories, an association that gathers the most important laboratories and research institutes in the areas of distributed energy resources. INESC TEC is the first Portuguese institution to be part of this network.
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INESC TEC concludes project in the music area
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has concluded in March the project MIReS - Music Information ReSearch. The aim with this project was to create a roadmap for research on Music Information Retrieval (MIR).
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INESC TEC develops solution to manage road networks
INESC TEC has recently started working on project SARA – System to Manage Assets in Road Networks, a joint research initiative that benefits from the expertise of two INESC TEC Units – the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) and the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM). The aim is to create an innovative solution to efficiently manage road network assets.
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INESC TEC tests broadband radio solution for remote locations
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has recently tested a solution that provides two-way broadband access based on long-range point-to-point WiFi connections.
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CISTER/INESC TEC starts European project on embedded systems
The Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER), an Associate Unit of INESC TEC, has recently started working on a European Artemis project in the area of embedded systems. The aim of the project is to address the technical and application challenges associated with the cooperation between different types of systems.
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INESC TEC highlighted in the Balkans
Nuno Fidalgo, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has recently travelled to Sarajevo, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, to provide consulting services on Load Research, in cooperation with the Regulatory and Energy Assistance Project (REAP), an initiative sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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INESC TEC provides services to startup Grabmark
The lack of tools to support collaborative studies was the motivation to create Grabmark, a platform for students to share and exchange study material. After winning a place in IdeaMove, a competition of business ideas promoted by the TEC-Empreende project, the new start-up has received the support of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit (UITT) at INESC TEC to develop and implement the business project.
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INESC TEC creates an app that promotes intelligent refuse collection
How is it possible to make refuse collection more efficient and economical? Three researchers from INESC TEC’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) are trying to provide an answer to that question with the CleanMyCity.
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INESC TEC researchers integrate restricted group of Portuguese authors in renowned journal
José Nuno Oliveira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), published a paper in the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering last March.
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INESC TEC integrates European project on smart grids
INESC TEC has recently integrated the team of the European project ELECTRA – European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities. This is an integrated research project (IRP) on smart grids where the main goal is to strengthen the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids. The project duration is 48 months.
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New research group at INESC TEC
The name is BRAIN (Biomedical Research And INnovation) and this is the most recent research group at INESC TEC, in the form of a Unit in incubation. BRAIN is led by João Paulo Cunha and conducts research in two fundamental areas of Biomedical Engineering: Neuroengineering and QSelf and Wereable Systems.
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INESC TEC paper with the highest number of downloads for the second year in a row
The paper “Operations research in healthcare: a survey” had the highest number of views in 2011 and in 2012 in the journal International Transactions in Operational Research.
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INESC TEC researcher receives Full Scholarship
Ana Rita Ribeiro, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE), was selected to receive a ThorLabs Full Scholarship to participate in the 6th International Graduate Summer School – Biophotonics '13, which will take place between 8 and 15 June in Sweden.
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Member of the SAB confirms the scientific quality at UGEI
James Spohrer, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (the entity that evaluates INESC TEC’s activity) visited INESC TEC’s Industrial Engineering and Management Unit (UGEI), where he evaluated, quite satisfactorily, the performance and evolution of the Unit.
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INESC TEC organises the first international conference on HDR imaging
INESC TEC organised and hosted the HDRi 2013: First International Conference and SME Workshop on HDR Imaging, an event dedicated exclusively to imaging techniques used to generate, edit and display High Dynamic Range images. For two days, researchers and practitioners from several countries discussed issues associated with techniques to capture and process HDR, as well as the most recent developments and the future of this revolutionary technology that is now emerging.
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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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