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On 11 March, the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence (VCMI) group, which is part of INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), celebrated their 100th meeting. The group has 13 members conducting research on visual computing and artificial intelligence.
21st March 2013
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has recently published three papers in international journals.
01st March 2013
In February, INESC TEC joined the Steering Committee of the ns3 consortium, a collection of organisations cooperating to support and develop the ns-3 software. This is a simulator for communication networks and Internet systems that support teaching and research activities in these areas.
28th February 2013
On 23 January, INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) was in Bristol, UK, to participate in a meeting with the partners of European project DAPHNE, a project about optical fibre communication systems for civil aircrafts.
27th February 2013
On 25 January, INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) organised the seminar “Wireless Sensor Networks”. The aim was to identify and develop skills and synergies that can help converge individual efforts to benefit the Unit as a whole, and perfect the Unit’s critical mass, using that potential to provide complete solutions for a sustainable reality.
28th January 2013
Eight INESC TEC researchers were awarded by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), as part of the celebrations of the Faculty Day, which took place on 16 January. José Ruela, former manager of INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) was also honoured at the ceremony.
28th January 2013
The project Self-PVP: Self-Organizing Power Management for Photo-Voltaic Power Plants, which is being developed at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) as part of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal (CMU Portugal) Program, was featured at the inaugural symposium of the second stage of CMU Portugal, "Carnegie Mellon Portugal: An Entrepreneurial University-Industry Ecosystem in ICT", which took place on 21 January in Lisbon.
28th January 2013
Three project applications by INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) have recently been approved by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the areas of data transmission, localisation based on sensors and health.
25th January 2013
The WiFIX, a wireless mesh network solution developed by researchers at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), will be implemented and tested as part of the European project CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet). The aim with this project is to create a large-scale testbed called Community-Lab to support experimental research on wireless networks.
25th January 2013
In 2012, BIP featured several (good) news about researchers awarded for their work in different components. Literary awards, Best Papers Awards, winning projects and other distinctions, they all illustrate the research potential of this Associate Laboratory. The BIP team made a list of last year’s awards and we came up with a staggering number of 31 awards received by our collaborators. It is safe to say that excellence lives at INESC TEC!
24th January 2013
Tânia Calçada, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), has defended her PhD dissertation on 3 January, and was approved with honours.
22nd January 2013
Imagine that the TV is on and the kids are playing in certain room. To add to the noise caused by these two situations, the doorbell rings. Can this sound be detected by a robot? A group of researchers responsible for creating the HEARBO robot, among which is João Oliveira of INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), ensures that the answer is yes.
02nd January 2013