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Gallery of the Uncommon

Yeah, we knew that researchers at LIAAD wrote papers, but we did not know they wrote about “science for young children”. They were caught in the act - we went through their shelves and what did we find?

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Gallery of the Uncommon

Gallery of the Uncommon

Princesses, fairies and… artificial intelligence

This gallery of the uncommon will be short, short like a children’s story.
Some people think researchers are somewhat esoteric beings who live in their own  world and think only of publishing papers, beings who speak their own language with their peers.
Now BIP know that this idea is nothing more than baseless stereotype. Yes, because any researcher worth his salt always has a fairy tale, with princes and princesses, close by. This book is their true "bible".

The picture above was taken at INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD). Surprised? So how do you think the fairy turned the pumpkin into a carriage? She used artificial intelligence, naturally! And how did the prince decide which foot belonged in the glass slipper? Decision Support systems, obviously!

And what about the Seven Dwarfs? Data Mining! And Pinocchio? Pattern Recognition! And the magic bean tree? Decision trees! And what about the...
Yeah, we knew that researchers at LIAAD wrote papers, but we did not know they wrote about “science for young children”. They were caught in the act - we went through their shelves and what did we find?