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In November INESC Porto took part in the project meeting for NSRF (The National Strategic Reference Framework) Living Usability Lab – LUL (Living Usability Lab for Next Generation Networks). Other project partners include Microsoft, and the University of Aveiro in Portugal. The project, which is active in the field of live usability testing, focuses on the development of technologies and services to support healthy, productive and active senior citizens.
25th January 2011
The Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) of INESC Porto is participating the project ImTV - OnDemand Immersive-TV for Communities of Media Producers and Consumers, recently approved by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the UTAustin-Portugal programme.
12th November 2010
Fabien Gouyon, researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), was invited to edit a special issue of the Computer Music Journal of MIT Press, together with Álvaro Barbosa of CITAR - Research Center for Science and Technology in Art, and Xavier Serra of the Music Technology Group of the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
12th November 2010
Cândido Duarte, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and Vítor Grade Tavares, professor at FEUP, both researchers at INESC Porto’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit, won, together with Daniel Oliveira (MSc student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP), the competition “Design Contest - TSMC 90nm LP MS/RF”. The results were announced on 21 October. The winners will have the opportunity to fabricate an integrated circuit for Radio Frequency (worth 7500 Euros) free of charge.
26th February 2010
The Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) area of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is currently organising, together with the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), the second edition of the international workshop "U-NET: User-provided Networking". The workshop will take place on 6 December 2010, in Miami, United States of America.
26th February 2010
Samuel van Ransbeeck, grant holder at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has designed a software for the Outhouse installation, awarded with first place at the Future Places Festival, which took place in Porto, between 13 and 17 October. This software was developed in the context of the KINETIC Project, led by INESC Porto (Carlos Guedes and Fabien Gouyon) together with the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin, YDreams and Casa da Música.
26th December 2009
INESC Porto participated in the Innovation Lounge, an initiative that took place simultaneously with the Communication Congress ’09, on 18 and 19 November, at the Congress Centre in Lisbon (CCL). Organized by the Portuguese Communications Development Association (APDC), this event aimed at the discussion of the Next Generation Networks (NGN).
22nd December 2009
The area "Wireless and Mobile Networks" (WiMobNet) of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) had seven of its projects approved recently, which will result in a 970 thousand Euro funding for INESC Porto.
20th December 2009
INESC Porto has recently started working on a new European project whose aim is to introduce the most advanced optical fibre communication network technologies in future aviation fleets. The kick-off meeting of the DAPHNE project took place at the AIRBUS head office in Hamburg, Germany, in September this year.
30th September 2009
The Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM) is currently developing the Skate Ensemble, together with the Junior University programme. Promoted by Casa da Música’s Educational Service, this project aims at the creation of sounds and graphic images through the acrobatic movements of skaters, habitués at the Casa da Música outside space.
01st September 2009
The Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM) has participated in the VISNET Network of Excellence (Networked audiovisual media technologies), whose activities took place in two phases, with a total duration of five years. The activities were concluded in June 2009.
01st September 2009
Waldir Júnior, researcher at the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) of the Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM) has recently presented an article at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2009), which took place in Kos, Greece.
01st September 2009