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INESC TEC with strong presence in ICT 2015

INESC TEC with strong presence in ICT 2015

INESC TEC participated in the event ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform, which welcomed over 6 thousand participants, 130 speakers and 150 innovative projects from all over the world. The ICT 2015 took place between 20 and 22 October at the Lisbon Congress Centre (CCL). INESC TEC was present in this event at the booth of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) with project CE4BLIND, in an area dedicated to project CoherentPaaS, and in a networking session on health (“TEC4HEALTHCARE by INESC TEC”).

The technology CE4BLIND (Context Extraction for the blind using computer vision) was developed by INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) in conjunction with the Portuguese Association for the Visually Impaired (ACAPO) and the University of Texas (USA). The goal with this digital mobile platform is to increase the autonomy of the visually impaired. Researchers João Barroso, Hugo Paredes, Hugo Fernandes and Luís Fernandes demonstrated this technology at the event, in a space dedicated to Portuguese projects, the Portuguese Village, promoted by the FCT.  

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The “CoherentPaaS: A Coherent and Rich PaaS with a Common Programming Model, a European project fro INESC TEC’s High Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), was also demonstrated at the event. The “CoherentPaaS” provides a PaaS (Platform as a Service) with different databases for specific tasks, data and workloads. The HASLab researchers present in this event were Miguel Matos, Francisco Maia, Ricardo Vilaça, Francisco Neves and José Orlando Pereira.

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The ICT 2015 also featured a networking session on health titled “TEC4HEALTHCARE by INESC TEC” organised by INESC TEC’s Industry partnership Service (SAPE), represented by Cristina Machado Guimarães. This Networking session, where the number of participants exceeded the capacity of the room, was an opportunity to promote  partnerships and to strengthen consortia of national and European projects, as well as to disseminate the state of the art of the technology and research in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the area of health. The themes Computer-aided Diagnosis and Big Data Analytics were addressed in this session, whose participants included Luís Filipe Antunes (Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, CRACS), Artur Rocha (CSIG),  and Aurélio Campilho, coordinator of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER). The CEO of Kinematix, Paulo Ferreira dos Santos, also participated in this event with a presentation titled "Information on your toes". José Manuel Mendonça, Chairman of INESC TEC, closed the session.  

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The NEM Portugal platform, created by INESC TEC together with the cluster TICE.PT, with the support of ADDICT, was presented during the networking session of the New European Media (NEM), an initiative whose goal is to play a fundamental goal in the area of Interactive Contents & Media and Creative Industries. The platform was presented by Teresa Andrade, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM).

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The ICT 2015 is an initiative promoted by the European Commission, co-organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The session was opened by the European Commissary, Günther Oettinger, the President of the Portugese Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the Secretary of State for the Economy of Luxemburgo, Francine Closener, and Hans Olaf Henkel, member of the European Parliament. On 21 October, the European Comissary Carlos Moedas, who is in charge of Research, Science and Innovation, did a presentation on the potential of innovation in the digital era, together with the Minister for Education and Science, Nuno Crato.