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Wine production and technology go hand in hand to assert Portugal’s wine producing status
Portugal has a high potential to produce quality wines, especially due to its climate and geological conditions, wine variety and tradition in the sector. But if it is certain that the natural conditions have contributed to strengthen the country’s position as the 12th largest wine producer in the world [1], it is also true that combining technology and these innate factors is key to strengthen this status. Whether in controlling the quality of the wines, managing their commercialisation or classifying wine slots, INESC TEC has been working successfully with national institutions in order to optimise some factors associated with wines and vineyards. An example of a project in this domain is one that revolutionised the concept of wine slot, with an impact on the world’s oldest vineyard site, World Heritage – the WineSlot.
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INESC TEC puts Portuguese media on the European map
INESC TEC, together with the TICE.PT – Tecnologias da Informação Comunicação e Electrónica (Centre for Information and Communication Technology and Electronics) and ADDICT – Agência para o Desenvolvimento das Indústrias Criativas (Agency for the Development of Creative Industries), created the platform “NEM Portugal,” which mirrors the European NEM (New European Media). The goal with the platform is to give voice to new media and to boost the export of Portuguese cultural products.
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German HBM acquires spin-off FiberSensing
The German company Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH (HBM), a world reference in testing and measurement equipment, has acquired FiberSensing – Sistemas Avançados de Monitorização S.A., an INESC TEC spin-off. According to the CEO and co-founder of FiberSensing, Luís Ferreira, this is “a fantastic opportunity for us to expand the use of optical fibre monitoring technology at an unprecedented level”.
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INESC TEC with nine European projects approved as part of the H2020 Programme
INESC TEC had nine projects approved as part of the Horizon 2020 – the Framework-Programme for Research & Innovation in the European Union. Four of those project proposals have been submitted by the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), two by the Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), and one by the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CROB).
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HASLab / INESC TEC explores deduplication technique for solving problems in the 'cloud'
The paper “A survey and classification of deduplication storage systems”, written by the researchers from INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), João Paulo and José Pereira, presents an innovative approach for the concept of deduplication and its use in cloud services. The work was recently published in the international journal with the highest impact factor in the field of computer science, ACM Computing Surveys.
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INESC TEC project leads to Music Technology roadmap and festival
Completed last year at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), European Project MIReS - Music Information ReSearch focused on the future impact that research in music technology on industry and academia. And the project has already left a mark – in addition to a roadmap of research in the area, the project originated the Music Tech Fest, which next year will be expanded to eight countries and welcome hundreds of participants.
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INESC TEC concludes project on optical beam dynamics in nonlinear structures
The Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and the Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) at INESC TEC have recently completed the project “Steering of light in nonlinear waveguides with resonant interactions” (Steering). Essentially theoretical, the project has contributed to the development of devices for optical signal processing and optical communications systems.
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INESC TEC launches project on probabilistic forecasting in special scheme
In September, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) started working on a project with REN (Portuguese Electricity Networks) to develop a probabilistic forecasting tool for power generation in special scheme.
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INESC TEC optimises transportation of food products
INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is currently working on a project called FRESHPACK where the goal is to optimise the Ship-Pack (transportation unit between warehouses and stores), which transports fresh products for Sonae MC, the food retailer of the Sonae Group.
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INESC TEC coordinates European project on Service Design and Innovation
INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) will be the coordinator of the European project Service Design for Innovation (SDIN) – Marie Curie Innovative Training Network. Starting in January of next year, the goal with the project is to create an advanced training and research programme in the area of service design and innovation.
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INESC TEC participates in project in the area of aeronautics
The Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) at INESC TEC is participating in the Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) “Innovation Dynamics in Aeronautics and Embraer in Évora: Towards a Distributed Platform for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, New Employment and Skills Development”. This ERI will analyse the increasing complexity and uncertainty of technological advances, supply chains and business settings in the aeronautics industry.
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INESC TEC develops immersive tools and contents for education and vocational training
The Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and the Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) at INESC TEC have recently concluded project CNG (New Generation Contents), whose main result was to develop a prototype for an interactive game that could be used by both teachers and students to help them teach and learn mathematics.
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Kinematix creates wearable technology for the O&P sector
Kinematix, an INESC TEC/FEUP spin-off, today announced ORTHOMONiTOR, a wearable sensing device that can be embedded in orthotics and prosthetics to measure wear-time compliance and provide evidence of clinical efficacy. Combining sensor technologies, wireless communication and user-friendly apps & reporting, the aim of ORTHOMONiTOR is to increase patient engagement and shorten treatment cycles.
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José Carlos Caldeira is president of the National Innovation Agency
José Carlos Caldeira, director of INESC TEC, was appointed by the Portuguese Government, through the Ministries of the Economy and Education and Science, to chair the Board of Directors of the National Innovation Agency, S.A. (Agência Nacional de Inovação – ANI).
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INESC TEC researcher is the new Director of FEUP
João Falcão e Cunha, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), is the new Director of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), the largest organic unit of the University of Porto.
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Director of INESC TEC on the editorial board of scientific journal
The director of INESC TEC, João Peças Lopes, was invited to join the editorial board of the new international publication Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks (SEGAN). The journal addresses theoretical and applied research in the areas of energy, including smart grids, from micro to super grids.
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INESC TEC researcher co-edits scientific journal on Operational Research
José Fernando Oliveira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), will be one of five co-editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) that includes scientific papers on Operational Research.
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FEUP/INESC TEC autonomous vessels win international competition
A team formed by researchers from INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CROB), and by professors and students of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), have participated in the 7th International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC), which included the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC), where the team won two of the most important rounds.
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INESC TEC receives award for paper on data mining techniques to predict malfunctions
The paper “Failure Prediction - an Application in the Railway Industry”, written by Pedro Mota Pereira, Rita Ribeiro and João Gama, researchers at INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), has received the Carl H. Smith Student Paper Award at the conference Discovery Science 2014.
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INESC TEC paper awarded in conference on ultrawide band technology and systems
The paper “An Energy Study on IR-UWB Transmitter Using Integration-and-Fire Modulation” received a best student paper at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand (ICUWB 2014). The paper was written by INESC TEC researchers Iman Kianpour, Bilal Hussain, Vítor Grade Tavares, Cândido Duarte (Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia – CTM), Hélio Mendonça (Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems – CROB) and invited researcher José Carlos Príncipe.
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INESC TEC organises European Conference on parallel and distributed computing
The Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) at INESC TEC has organised, together with the Department of Computer Science and the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto, the 20th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2014), which took place between 25 and 29 August. Tutorials, workshops, discussions and lectures on parallel and distributed computing gathered about 300 participants from 33 countries at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto.
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INESC TEC co-organises and participates in international forum on the electricity sector
The President of INESC TEC, José Manuel Mendonça, directors João Peças Lopes and Vladimiro Miranda, and the coordinator of the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), Manuel Matos, as well as the researcher Carlos Moreira, participated in LABORA 2014, an international forum that took place in Cascais on 16 October.
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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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