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On 5 September, INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) took part in a public session to conclude project Living Usability Lab (LUL). The session took place at the Microsoft headquarters at the Parque das Nações in Lisbon, Portugal. At this event the technological innovations of this project were presented and demonstrated firsthand. The aim with this project is to improve the quality of life of the senior population. The demonstration was attended by the scientific community and the press.
25th September 2012
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is organising the 13th Edition of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), which will take place between 8 and 12 October, at the Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória in Porto, Portugal.
24th September 2012
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is participating in a European health project where the aim is to provide clear data, in breast cancer cases, which will help both patients and doctors make informed decisions on the most suitable type of surgery according to each case (including conserving surgery or mastectomy).
21st September 2012
On 13 July, INESC TEC organised a workshop to mark the end of project SITMe (Integrated Services for Metropolitan Transport), which took place at INESC Porto’s (the coordinating entity of INESC TEC) Auditorium. This event followed an information session on the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) calls for transportation and mobility.
30th July 2012
Ana Sequeira, Hélder Castro and Jaime Dias, researchers at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), have promoted a seminar on Security on 13 July. The aim was to discuss work from different Units in this area and try to adjust them to the European Call on Security (FP7-SEC-2013-1).
30th July 2012
Cristina Oliveira and André Fernandes, researchers at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), were the great winners of the 1st PhD Students Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering (StudECE2012), which took place on 28 and 29 June.
30th July 2012
On 9 July, there was an Open Day dedicated to the “schoooools” project in which INESC TEC (Associate Laboratory coordinated by INESC Porto) is partner. The aim was to inform partners and the community interested in this area on the project’s progress.
30th July 2012
Gustavo Carneiro, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), is the most recent PhD holder at the Unit. On 10 July he defended his dissertation entitled "Transparent Metropolitan Vehicular Network — Design and Fast Prototyping Methodology", which describes a network architecture that allows public transport passengers to have WiFi access from their mobile devices.
30th July 2012
Combining skills is the path for excellence – the institution now integrates 12 R&D units and over 600 employees, including 200 PhD holders – has originated major challenges in terms of the efficient combination of expertise in the Associate Laboratory: could we use this diversity of skills to develop national and European multidisciplinary and added-value projects?
02nd July 2012
"Innovation at the Service of Companies" – this was the motto for the Open Day organised jointly by the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) and the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG), which took place on 21 June at INESC TEC. This event targeted companies in the sector of Information, Communication and Electronics Technologies operating in the global market.
29th June 2012
By the end of June INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) will be concluding the project Living Usability Lab (LUL) – Living Laboratory for the Use of Innovative Technologies in Next Generation Networks, a collaborative R&D project between academia and industry in Portugal. The project aimed to develop technologies that allow senior citizens to become more healthy and active.
29th June 2012
The Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) at INESC TEC was invited by Vodafone Portugal to participate in an event, the Wi-Fi Day@VFPT, which took place in 5 and 6 June in Lisbon.
29th June 2012