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Telecommunications and Multimedia, Applied Photonics, High-assurance Software and Advanced Computing Systems – these are the four domains that INESC TEC researchers will explore within the scope of the five projects that were approved through the Call for Exploratory Projects promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
02nd October 2024
Encryption, malicious software, data privacy, web and mobile security, secure access control and authentication – these were some of the topics discussed at the 14th edition of the ACM Conference on data and application security and privacy. Organised by INESC TEC and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), this was the first time that the Conference took place in a country other than the United States of America.
27th June 2024
Future 6G networks should make data privacy a top priority. INESC TEC is part of PRIVATEER, a European project that aims to create a robust and decentralised AI-based security analysis for 6G networks. "Privacy" is the key word.
13th June 2023
A group of INESC TEC researchers was acknowledged due to their research work on the management of permissions on mobile devices. The team developed a set of techniques to automate the response to requests for permissions by smartphone applications, with a reliability of 90%. This work received the award for best scientific paper at the ACM CODASPY conference, which took place in the United States of America.
08th July 2022
INESC TEC will contribute to the development of perception algorithms, computing and architectures based on artificial intelligence, within the scope of the project THEIA - Automated Perception Driving, a partnership between the University of Porto and Bosch - which aims to make autonomous vehicles safer through a better perception of the outside environment.
07th June 2022
INESC TEC researchers developed Biolens, a web application that allows the classification of biological species through the submission of photographs. Currently, the platform is able to recognise a significant subset of the Portuguese species of dragonflies, butterflies and moths.
03rd June 2022
Ricardo Queirós, researcher at INESC TEC, and professor at the School of Media Arts and Design of the Polytechnic of Porto (ESMAD-P.Porto), is one of the authors of the book Gamificação Aplicada às Organizações e ao Ensino, along with Mário Pinto, also a professor at ESMAD-P.Porto and a researcher at uniMAD.
24th March 2022
INESC TEC's Centre for Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) participates in two projects funded by the EU programme Erasmus+, whose objective is to develop new tools that support the teaching of computer science, thus contributing to improve programming knowledge.
24th May 2021
The paper "A Framework for On-Demand Reporting of Cryptocurrency Ownership and Provenance" co-authored by António Pinto, a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) and by Pedro Pinto, a researcher at the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) of INESC TEC, received the Best Application Paper Award at the International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'20).
21st October 2020
Ricardo Queirós, researcher at the Centre for Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), and lecturer at the School of Media Arts and Design of the Polytechnic of Porto (IPP-ESMAD), was one of the organisers of ICPEC.
23rd September 2020
With the increasing use of I.T. by military units and command structures, cyber-threats and possible issues affecting the defence resources of the EU Member-States are becoming a reality that ought to be addressed, since a cyber-attack can compromise the security and integrity of countries, and even lead to the loss of human lives.
23rd September 2020
Ricardo Queirós, researcher at the Centre for Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), and lecturer at the School of Media Arts and Design of the Polytechnic of Porto (IPP-ESMAD), published, in August this year, a new book entitled Desenvolvimento Avançado para Web – do front-end ao back-end.
22nd September 2020