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Retail sales can go up by 21%
The future of the retail industry will involve the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, which makes it possible to optimise the retail cycle management. It was based on this technology that the platform ‘CreativeRetail’ was created, and it not only improves customer satisfaction, but also increases sales between 4 and 21% in stores or store chains. The CreativeRetail was developed by Creativesystems, together with INESC TEC.
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INESC TEC adopts output evaluation model of the European Space Agency
In order to evaluate the technology readiness of its scientific outputs, as part of the FCT’s evaluation, which took place in late 2014, INESC TEC has adopted the model of the European Space Agency. This model uses a scale of TRL – Technology Readiness Levels, which define the maturity of technology developed within each R&D project, always aiming to transfer technology to the market.
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FCT rates INESC TEC as “Excellent”
After the second evaluation stage of R&D Units, conducted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), INESC TEC was rated as "Excellent", obtaining a score of 24 points (out of 25). As a result, INESC TEC will be receiving almost 2.6 million euros/year.
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INESC TEC: 30 years of accomplishments
In 2015, INESC will be celebrating 30 years of existence in Porto – three decades of knowledge production and technology transfer.
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INESC TEC is part of Raw Materials Consortium of European Institute of Innovation and Technology
INESC TEC was recently selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to join the Raw Materials consortium. INESC TEC is the sole Portuguese research centre to be part of this team. Three years after creating the Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) for the areas of climate change, renewable energy and ICT, Raw Materials are the new challenge of EIT, in which Portugal is represented by INESC TEC.
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INESC TEC integrates Portuguese consortium that will bring companies and European services closer
INES TEC is part of a new consortium, the Enterprise Europe Network – Portugal (EEN-Portugal), where the goal is to provide information and consulting services to companies in Europe. The idea is to promote business opportunities and cooperation, and participations in RDI projects, as well as provide access to new markets, with about 600 points of contact in over 50 countries.
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Project CARLoS originates first prototype of mobile manipulating robot
Between 11 and 12 November, INESC TEC hosted the first integration workshop on project CARLoS (CooperAtive Robot for Large Spaces manufacturing), where the goal is to develop a mobile manipulating robot for fit-out and coating applications, or to be used inside superstructure blocks in ships.
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INESC TEC creates tool that estimates the reliability of wind turbines
INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and Centre For Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI) are developing a tool to estimate the reliability of wind turbines using advanced statistical models. The goal is to identify the factors that influence reliability.
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INESC TEC helps Kyaia install prototype that manufactures shoes pair by pair
Did you know that you can now order a customised pair of shoes online and have it on your doorstep in 24 hours? Thanks to a partnership between technology-based companies and R&D institutions, including INESC TEC, the technology makes it possible to produce footwear units, and is now installed at Kyaia, in Guimarães. The new solution to produce customised footwear in 24 hours was developed as part of the HighSpeedShoeFactory (Model to Produce Customised Footwear) project, and changes the way the footwear industry operates.
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INESC TEC studies application of new immersive functionalities in different scenarios
INESC TEC’s Centre for Information and Computer Graphics Systems (CSIG) is currently developing a project as part of the 2014-2015 Innovation Plan, in partnership with and funded by PT Inovação e Sistemas.
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INESC TEC creates knowledge platform for the Galicia-North of Portugal Euroregion
INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics designed a webpage for the European group for cross-border cooperation between Galicia and the North of Portugal (GNP-AECT). Called Euroregion Information Office (GIE), the webpage contains information on the Euroregion.
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INESC TEC and S. João Hospital Centre sign collaboration protocol
On 29 December, INESC TEC signed a protocol with the S. João Hospital Centre (CHSJ) to promote cooperation in various areas: information systems (sustaining artificial intelligence and other techniques to support Business Intelligence), energy efficiency, logistics, and biomedical engineering.
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INESC TEC researchers develop Bragg network using innovative methods
Now that 20 years have passed since Francisco Araújo, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP), developed the first Bragg network in April 1994 (see Figure 1), the CAP researchers Paulo Marques (coordinator) and Daniel Alexandre fabricated the first Bragg network using a femtosecond laser (impulses lasting 200x10-15s, that is, one millionth of one billionth of a second), purchased recently as part of the BEST CASE (Figure 2) project.
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INESC TEC launches channel on YouTube
INESC TEC has created a new internal and external communication vehicle – the INESC TEC YouTube channel has already been launched.
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INESC TEC wins FCT’s Digital Inclusion and Literacy Award
Ramiro Gonçalves, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) and associate professor in IT at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, has won the Digital Inclusion and Literacy Award, promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), with the project “Barometer for Web accessibility in Portugal”.
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INESC TEC researcher joins editorial board of TRPRO
Jorge Freire de Sousa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), was invited to join the editorial board of the new journal Transportation Research Procedia (TRPRO).
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INESC TEC researcher is associate editor of journal on audio, speech, and language processing
Matthew Davies, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), was appointed associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Matthew Davies is now one of the members of the editorial board that will be coordinating the publication of this journal on audio, speech and language processing over the next three years.
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Thesis developed at INESC TEC receives Best Master Thesis Award
The thesis “Analysis of expressiveness of Portuguese Sign Language Speakers”, by Maria Inês Rodrigues, former collaborator at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), received the 2014 Best Master Thesis Award from the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP).
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INESC TEC researcher is finalist of Sonae Media Art Award
Rui Penha, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), is one of the five finalists of the first edition of the Sonae Media Art Award, which awards national artistic creations in the area of media art.
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INESC TEC researchers win Best Paper Award
The INESC TEC researchers Pedro Strecht (Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering - CESE), Carlos Soares (CESE) and João Moreira (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support – LIAAD) received a Best Paper Award for their paper "Merging Decision Trees: a case study in predicting student performance".
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INESC TEC paper receives “Best Student Paper Award”
The paper “oAdaBoost – An AdaBoost Variant for Ordinal Classification”, written by João Costa (former collaborator) and Jaime Cardoso, of INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), received a “Best Student Paper Award” at the 2015 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM).
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Carlos Moedas visits INESC TEC
On 12 December, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, was at INESC TEC as part of a visit to Research Units within the University of Porto. This was the first official visit since the commissioner took office.
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Workshop discusses network of suppliers for the aeronautics industry
INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) was one of the organisers and participants of the workshop “Fostering Global Supply Networks for the Aeronautics Industry in Portugal”, which took place on 16 January. In the session, the participants analysed several critical issues for the development of the aeronautics industry, such as the contribution of small technology-based companies to the aeronautics industry and the use of 3D metallic printing in this sector.
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INESC TEC organises executive programme on lean startup with Silicon Valley coach
Build, measure and learn – this is the combination of words that best describes the lean startup thought born at Silicon Valley, a worldwide renowned innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States, which hosts some of the largest and most dynamic IT companies and technology-based startups.
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Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls
In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.
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