Event type: Lectures

“Federated Learning: Methods, Applications and Challenges” is the topic of the third session of the “AIDA Webinar Series”, an initiative promoted by the CMU Portugal project AIDA with CMU Portugal support. The Webinar will take place online on April 20 at 3pm (UTC +1) with Paula Silva (Research Assistant at INESC TEC) as speaker and Nuno Antunes (Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra) as moderator.

Webinar #3 Summary: The last few years have been strongly marked by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and telecommunications networks. As a result, several challenges arose in data science regarding how data can be accessed and stored. For example, sharing of telecommunication network data, for example, even at high aggregation levels, is highly restricted nowadays due to privacy legislation and regulations and other critical ethical concerns. It leads to scattering data across institutions, regions, and states, inhibiting the usage of AI methods that could otherwise take advantage of data at scale.

Registrations are open. 

The “AIDA Webinar Series I Improving 5G Risk Management” will count with a total of five (5) Webinars held every two months from December 2021 to September 2022, gathering leading experts from academia to industry involved with the project.

For more information about this initiative and about the previous Webinars available at the AIDA Website.

The CMU Portugal Program and the coordination of the Large Scale Collaborative project AIDA will host between December 2021 and September 2022 a series of webinars on the improvement of 5G risk management. 

The “AIDA Webinar Series I Improving 5G Risk Management” will count with a total of five (5) Webinars held every two months, gathering leading experts from academia to industry involved with the project. More about this Webinar series here. 

The first Webinar will take place on December 7, 2021, at 3pm (UTC) and will be hosted by Carlos Martins and Pedro Fidalgo from the project’s leading company Mobileum and moderated by José Orlando Pereira (Senior Researcher at INESC TEC and Professor at UMinho).

Registration to the Webinar #1 is free but mandatory here.

Webinar #1 Summary: 5G presents an opportunity for telecom operators to capture new revenue streams from industrial digitization. The network evolution has opened up an abundance of new business opportunities for communication service providers (CSPs) in verticals such as industrial automation, security, health care, and automotive. Expanding non-telecom value chains, and supporting new business models through shared infrastrucuture, multiple stakeholders, open interfaces increases the complexity of delivery chains, attack vectors and consequently exposure to risk and fraud.

This webinar aims to discuss risk management as a platform that is able to protect the 5G ecosystem in its multiple layers, and deploy an Integrated Risk Management strategy that manages high data volumes, real time visibility through local edges, ensuring  system-wide intrusion detection, tampering protection, confidentiality and data privacy, protecting the ecosystem and value chain.

For more information visit the AIDA Website.

Title: How can we teach computers  solve the Rubik’s Cube?
Date: Saturday 25th September at 11:00

Can we teach computers to solve riddles? Can computers solve the Rubik’s Cube better and faster than humans? How can we teach computers to think like humans?

On Saturday, 25th September, at 11:00, Inês Lynce, researcher and President of INESC-ID, and Full Professor at Técnico, will go live on Técnico facebook to answer these questions.

Please send your questions ahead of time to explicame@tecnico.ulisboa.pt or join us live on Facebook.

On Saturday, 25th September at 11:00, CMU Portugal National Co-Director Inês Lynce, President of INESC-ID and Full Professor at Técnico, will go live on Técnico facebook under Técnico’s initiative “Explica-me como se tivesse 5 anos” / “Explain it like I’m 5”, where scientists explain to small kids topics in their area of expertise.

MORE ABOUT THE INITIATIVE:

“Explain it like I’m 5 – are talks promoted by Técnico for small children and other curious people of all ages”. It is a way to open Técnico research to all and allow participants to ask scientists their questions, even at a distance. Older people can come as well, if the children let them. These talks take place on Saturdays live on Facebook in Portuguese.

On September 16th at 11am (Lisbon time), CMU Portugal Director at Carnegie Mellon University, José M. F. Moura will give a Distinguished Lecture at Instituto Superior Técnico (Alameda campus, in Lisbon) titled “Uma história que se tece detetando dados em discos rígidos”/ “A story that weaves itself by detecting data on hard drives”.

Abstract: Our digital life generates and consumes massive amounts of data. We take for granted the ever small hard disk drives that store the data and from which we read it back accurately – accurately, so we trust that we will read tomorrow exactly the same data that we recorded yesterday. But recording more and more in less challenges the recording and read back technologies. In the early 90’s, I was part of a team at Carnegie Mellon University that, with support from the US National Science Foundation, set to develop in ten years a hard disk drive that increased by two orders of magnitude (a factor of 100) the magnetic recording density – meaning that, in the same volume, we could store 100 times more data. My part of the deal was to come up with a detector, i.e., the contraption that read accurately those bits recorded in ever small magnetic domains. This became the PhD thesis of my then student Alek Kavcic. In 1997, CMU filed with the US Patent Office a provisional patent on the Kavcic-Moura design. Two patents eventually issued in the early 2000s. I will describe, in the historical context of the disk drive industry in the early 1990’s, the challenge of accurately recovering bits in high density recording, how we went about understanding the problem, developing the “optimal” solution, and then making it practical (to fit a tiny read head in a hard disk drive). By itself, this would appeal to the expert. But there is more to this 25 years saga. I will explain what I learned from the various interactions with industry and with CMU, from the main steps in the seven years litigation in US Federal courts, from the largest ever verdict in information technology (IT) (roughly, US$1.5Billion (thousand millions), and finally, in 2016, from the US$750M settlement between CMU and a chip designer, the largest intellectual property (IP) settlement ever. In 2016, 2.23Billion chips in over 60% of all computers sold worldwide were found to incorporate our patented technology, Today, it is estimated that this number is well over 4Billion.

Moderator: José M. N. Leitão, Retired Full Professor (IST/DEEC; IT).
Venue: Civil Engineering building, Congress Centre, Auditorium, floor 01.
Language: English

Live streaming link

More information at Técnico website.

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program has organized between April and June a series of webinars entitled “User Experience Design Talks @CMU Portugal”. This initiative is conducted under the Advanced Training Programs in User Experience Design of the CMU Portugal Program, which is planned to start in 2021.

The third and last talk of this series of Webinars will take place on June 1st, 3 pm (Lisbon)/ 10 am (Pittsburgh)  by Gierad Laput, Research and Engineering Manager at Apple.

Registration is free but mandatory: online form. All participants will receive the login credentials the day before the event.

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program will organize between April and June a series of webinars entitled “User Experience Design Talks @CMU Portugal”. This initiative is conducted under the Advanced Training Programs in User Experience Design of the CMU Portugal Program, which is planned to start in 2021.

The second talk will take place on May 18, 3 pm (Lisbon)/ 10 am (Pittsburgh) , by Lining Yao, Assistant Professor of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University, directing the Morphing Matter Lab.

Registration is free but mandatory: online form. All participants will receive the login credentials the day before the event.

Abstract

The talk starts with different morphing mechanisms in natural seeds and microorganisms, and ends with an ecological vision of the future empowered by morphing materials. Nature has engineered many morphing materials for the sake of survival. In particular, environmentally responsive materials combined with unique structures such as bi-layers and honeycombs serve as seed dispersal and burial mechanisms. Unlike many artificial robots, these natural adaptive and autonomous systems are completely electricity-free and biodegradable. Learning from nature, biodegradable morphing mechanisms are developed to save our planet’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. This talk will also reflect the designer’s role in such efforts to build, or rebuild, a harmonious relationship between technology and environment, humankind and nature.

Lining Yao is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, directing the Morphing Matter Lab. Morphing Matter lab develops materials, tools, and applications of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent morphing matter from nano to macro scales. Research often combines material science, computational fabrication and creative design practices. Lining and her lab work anti-disciplinarily, publishing and exhibiting across science, engineering, design and art. Lining gained her PhD at MIT Media Lab, where she combined biological and engineering approaches to develop physical materials with dynamic and tunable properties including shape, color, stiffness, texture and density. Beyond her teaching and research in the School of Computer Science, Lining holds courtesy appointments at Mechanical Engineering, as well as Material Sciences and Engineering. She is supervising undergraduate and graduate students across the College of Engineering and College of Art.

Next Talk:

Session 3: June 1st at 3 pm (Lisbon)/ 10 am (Pittsburgh)
“Context-Driven Implicit Interactions” by Gierad Laput, Research and Engineering Manager at Apple:
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