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“Companies that create the digital. Companies that the digital recreated” – this is the theme that will gather about two hundred people in the Almeida Garret Library in Porto on 23 October at 10:30 AM. The challenges posed by the digital revolutionised several industries at a global level, namely the media industry, producing new types of consumers and new business models to generate revenues. The questions arising from these changes are multiple: how do traditional Portuguese companies reinvent themselves while facing the challenges posed by the digitalisation? What is the strategy of Portugal for the digitalisation in the Portuguese industry?
Date 11th October 2018
Five technological solutions – three used in agriculture and two used in forest – representing an investment of around EUR 7.4 million, will be exhibited in the largest agricultural fair in Portugal, the Agroglobal 2018. It will take place in Valada do Ribatejo (Santarém) between 5 and 7 September in the exhibition space of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) in the Agro Inov Pavilion (Technology Pavilion).
Date 04th September 2018
Leonel Carvalho and Vladimiro Miranda once again won the competition organised by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's most prestigious and largest professional organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and technology. This is the third time that the researchers of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) have won this competition organised by the IEEE, having won all the editions so far (in 2014, 2017 and 2018), also being the only Portuguese researchers to win the award. In order to solve the problems proposed in 2018 by the “Modern Heuristic Optimization” competition, both researchers were accompanied by three more researchers – Armando Leite da Silva, Carolina Marcelino and Elizabeth Wanner.
Date 30th August 2018
After three years, with the collaboration of 11 international partners and EUR 4 million funded by the European Commission, transmission speeds that achieved 10 Gbps (when the normal is 1 Gbps) were demonstrated for the first time at a global level. All thanks to some devices called resonant tunneling diode (RTDs), which are new wireless transceiver technologies that resembles small, low-cost and energy-efficient chips that allow the ultra-fast data transmission integrated with the optical fibre network.
Date 26th July 2018
Margarida Carvalho is the first Portuguese woman awarded the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award, a distinction that recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations in the operational research (OR) field. This is the first time that a Portuguese researcher wins this award that assesses the uniqueness and novelty of the thesis, the relevance for the OR field, the range and depth of the results, the inputs in the research areas and the quality of the corresponding publications.
Date 23rd July 2018
The city of Porto will receive next Monday and Tuesday (9 and 10 July), 17 world experts on blockchains from academics to business experts from countries such as USA, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Switzerland, Austria and, of course, Portugal. In addition to the current situation of the existing solutions, the experts also will disclose new solutions in the field. The challenges of the blockchain technology that involves academia, industry and laboratories and research centres will also be on the agenda. The name of the conference is “Chain-in: The International Industrial & Academic Conference on Blockchain Technology” and it was organised by the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC).
Date 05th July 2018
The new Portuguese news aggregation platform is called “Conta-me histórias” and has just received EUR 10 thousand for the first place under the Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018. The award ceremony took place yesterday afternoon, 3 July , at the Science Summit 2018, in the plenary session "New frontiers of the digital age in Europe and in the world", which was attended by the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission, Carlos Moedas.
Date 04th July 2018
The European Union, especially the Mediterranean countries, have been facing a number of challenges with illegal border crossing. The need of enhancing the border security in order to control migrations and especially the fight against crime that occurs during these crossings, has caused the EU to fund the project SUNNY at almost EUR 10 million. The project, which involved 16 European entities, developed a smart sensors network that are carried on-board of unmanned aircraft. These aircraft, best known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAS (remote piloted aircraft systems), aims to monitor the border areas which, when it comes to SUNNY, are especially the areas related to the ocean environment.
Date 26th June 2018
This Wednesday, 27 June at 10:00 a.m., Lisbon will be the meeting point for dozens of European institutions related to the energy sector. From enterprises related to the industry, such as General Electric (GE), Águas do Tejo Atlântico, REN or SAP, to power distribution enterprises such as EDP Distribuição, or to institutions and enterprises related to research, namely the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) and the University of Comillas (Madrid). The goal is to present the best in the energy field in Europe. The debate will take place at EDP headquarters, in the number 12 Avenida 24 de julho.
Date 25th June 2018
There is one more technology with Portuguese signature granted in the USA. It’s called ACDC Cube and consists in a more compact and efficient electronic power converter. The technology was invented by a group of three Portuguese researchers: Diogo Varajão, former researcher of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) and current Head of Research and Development (R&D) of AddVolt, Luís Miguel Miranda senior researcher of INESC TEC and Rui Esteves Araújo, INESC TEC’s researcher and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).
Date 21st June 2018
The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) and EFACEC celebrate this year their 25 years of partnership. That is why tomorrow at 15:30 p.m., a letter of intentions between the two institutions will be signed for the next years in the auditorium of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), in Porto.
Date 21st June 2018
The Portuguese market is composed in more than 90% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), that despite having several technological solutions, they are not always able to reach the so-called manufacturing leaders in order to present the technological solutions they develop. It is precisely to bring together the Portuguese SMEs from the largest European energy companies that the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) and EDP Distribuição have launched a competition.
Date 22nd May 2018
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