In order to support the emergence of new high-impact initiatives within Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), CMU Portugal established a line of funding for Early Bird Projects. The projects must aim at stimulating and promoting Portuguese innovation in ICT and/or enabling technologies in application sectors. The analysis of the societal, policy and managerial implications of ICT-enabled scientific and technological breakthroughs naturally also fits within the scope of these exploratory projects.Â
2014 Early Bird Projects
Ten proposals were approved for funding,Â
with a total budget of approximately €300,000.00 eurosÂ
Name of the EBP | Portuguese PI | CMU PI | Organizations |
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AMOS: Algorithms for Massive Online courSes | Mikolas Janota (INESC ID) | Edmund Clarke | – |
A Serious Game for Speech Therapy with Visual Bio-feedback | Sofia Maia Cavaco (FCTUNL) | Maxine Eskenazi | Hospital Garcia da Orta |
BRIDGE – Ringing multimedia Information for cancer Discovery in Gastroenterology Environment | Miguel Tavares Coimbra (IT) | Jelena Kovacevic | IPO – Porto |
TRATAHI – Bringing Down Language Barriers on the Internet through Human-in-the-Loop Joint Transcription and Translation | Ramón Astudillo (INESC ID) | Bhiksha Raj | Unbabel |
Compliant Robotics Hands with Integrated Soft MEMS Skin (for Medical Prosthesis and Industrial Robotics Applications) | Mahmoud Tavakoli (ISR – UC) | Carmel Majidi | – |
MT4M – Machine Translation For Microblogs | Isabel Trancoso (INESC ID) | Alan W. Black and Chris Dyer | Unbabel, Universidade de Macau |
RSLingo4Privacy – Tools to improve consistency between privacy policies and current practices | Alberto Manuel Silva (INESC ID) | Travis Breaux | – |
Self-Adaptating NoSQL Stores | LuÃs Eduardo Rodrigues (INESC ID) | David Garlan | Silicongate |
Statistically Enhanced Mixed-Signal and Analog Design | José Machado da Silva (INESC TEC) | Shawn Blanton | – |
Studying the long-term acceptance of personal health informatics tools | Evangelos Karapanos (M-ITI) | Jodi Forlizzi | – |