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The minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Mariano Gago, has signed the order on INESC Porto LA’s status as Associate Laboratory to renew the statute for 10 more years, which will correspond to the funding scheme of five years plus a further five years. Within the order, the new LA model incorporates INESC Porto and the Associate Units.
20th June 2011
INESC Porto’s seven Central Units, four Associate Units and one Privileged Partner make a total of 569 collaborators, of which 193 have PhDs. These current dimensions give shape to the Associate Laboratory (LA) plan that INESC Porto aims to implement over the next five years and has submitted for recognition to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). With Associate Laboratory status since 2002, INESC Porto adopted a new organisational model in 2007 with the main objective of broadening the scope of the institution as an Associate Laboratory. The challenge revolves around the growing network that allows for scientific consolidation with new groups that maintain their administrative autonomy and therefore will open new doors to large-scale projects that are more demanding and multidisciplinary. The mission is being accomplished.
14th March 2011
In this year, so notoriously marked by the economic crisis, INESC Porto has increased its budget from 10 to 12.5 million Euros. However, this is actually one of the most conservative budgets so far: close to 90% of the predicted income has been contractually guaranteed since the beginning of the year. With his feet firmly on the ground the INESC Porto President admits that despite INESC Porto having practically doubled in size over the last five years, “this does not mean an obsession with records”. José Manuel Mendonça explains that a group effort from all of the collaborators will be necessary to maintain this sustainable growth and he recognises that guaranteeing a high level of quality while growing so rapidly will be an enormous challenge.
10th February 2011
Ricardo Queirós a researcher from The Center for Research in Advanced Computer Systems (CRACS) and doctorate student at the Faculty of Science, University of Porto (FCUP) received the award for the best poster in the 9th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2010).
25th January 2011
Álvaro Figueira, researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), published a book on one of the mostly used e-learning systems in the world, currently used by the University of Porto and most of its faculties – the Moodle.
26th February 2010
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) and the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) organised the 12th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS09), simultaneously with the 20th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, which took place at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), between 2 and 5 October 2009.
26th December 2009
The Center for Research in Advanced Computer Systems (CRACS) welcomed, on 9 April, Hitoshi Oi, professor at the University of Aizu, in Japan, to participate in a seminar on the performance analysis of multi-core Netburst architectures.
29th May 2009
In the context of the UT-Austin|Portugal Programme, the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) organised the Spring School in Advanced Computing TACC @ UP 2009, together with UT Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which took place in the city of Porto on 28 and 29 May.
28th May 2009
Inês Dutra, researcher from the Center for Research in Advanced Computer Systems (CRACS), was interviewed by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in the context of the eResearch2020 project, regarding her participation in EELA (E-science grid facility for Latin America and Europe).
28th May 2009
Fernando Silva, Ricardo Rocha and Vítor Santos Costa, researchers from the Center for Research in Advanced Computer Systems (CRACS), visited the Carnegie Mellon University, in the United States, in the first week of May.
28th May 2009
Inês Dutra, researcher from the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), visited the city of Bogotá (Columbia), in February, in order to participate in the first conference of the EELA-2 project (E-science grid facility for Latin America and Europe).
06th April 2009
Paulo Moura, researcher from the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) will participate as guest speaker in ICLP'09 - 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, which will take place in Pasadena, California (USA), from 14 to 17 July 2009.
06th April 2009