2011 Annual Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Conference: “Universities, Companies and End Users: A Strong Coalition for Knowledge and Growth”
Date: October 3, 2011
Place: Auditório B, Reitoria da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Campus de Campolide, 1099-085 Lisboa)
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/6ytg3pb
PROGRAM
10:00-11:00 Reception and Morning Coffee with Poster and Demo Session
11:00-11:45 Opening Session
António Rendas, President, CRUP
João Barros, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
Jared Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University
Rogério Carapuça, Chairman, Novabase
Leonor Parreira, Secretary of State for Science
11:45-12:45 INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION IN TEST BEDS AND PLATFORMS
Creating the PT Security Lab at Portugal Telecom
José Alegria, Portugal Telecom Security Lab
Observit in the MAIS-S Project: Multi-agent Intelligent Surveillance
Bernardo Motta, CTO, Observit
Hey, Taxi! A Trip to the Future of Vehicular Mobility
Michel Ferreira, co-founder, Geolink
Feedzai: Partnering with world leading Universities: The value for startups
Nuno Sebastião, CEO, Feedzai
The Madeira Logica Service Design Lab
José Carlos Gonçalves, CEO, Logica
12:45 – 13:15 ELEVATOR SPEECH SESSION
[SHORT PRESENTATIONS BY GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI WITH INDUSTRY]
Next Generation Data Center Networks
Tiago Carvalho, Ph.D. Student in ECE
The IT patenting upsurge
Andreia Rafael, Ph.D. Student in TCE
6D pose Estimation of Textureless Shiny Objects for Binpicking
José Jerónimo Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student in ECE
DAZL: Density Aware Zone-based Packet Forwarding for Vehicular Networks
Rui Meireles, Ph.D. Student in CS
Better ASR through Improved Language Modeling
João Miranda, Ph.D. Student in LTI
Catarina Pereira, MHCI Alumni (Portugal Telecom)
Why Vehicular Networks over Cellular do Not Work
André Cardote, Ph.D. Student in ECE
Does Broadband in Schools Influence Home Internet Adoption?
Rodrigo Belo, Ph.D. Student in EPP
Local Firm and Employment Effects of Import Competition in Portugal
Ana Venâncio, Ph.D. Student in TCE
Portugal: what a surprise!
Filippo Cagnetti, Math Post-Doc
E-Vote
Marina Santana, MSE Alumni (Novabase)
Resilience and Trustworthy in a Cloud Environment
Carlos Silva, MSIT-IS Alumni (Portugal Telecom)
Message Diffusion in Social Networks
Vasco Pedro, EPP Researcher
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13:15-14:00 Light Lunch, Poster and Demo Session
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14:00 – 14:50 SESSION 1 INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES
Moderator: Nuno Nunes, Universidade da Madeira (UMa)
Designing Services for Sustainable Living
Lia PatrÃcio, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)
Robots that Interact with Humans
Rodrigo Ventura, Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL)
Users and the Development of Funding Mechanisms for Entrepreneurial Projects: The case of Crowd-funding
Pedro Oliveira, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)
Business Design at Novabase
Pedro Janeiro, Head of Business Design, Novabase
Applications of Language Technologies to Education
Isabel Trancoso, Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL, INESC-ID)
14:50 – 15:40 SESSION 2 SECURE AND DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS
Moderators: LuÃs Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
Freeing Programmers from the Shacklers of Sequentiality
Bruno Cabral, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC)
Agents of Change at Novabase: The Case of the Software Engineering Group
João Pina, Novabase (MSE alumni)
Certifying Distributed Software
Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
The Big Duck is Moving: Challenges on Building Adaptive Software
Marco Vieira, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC)
INTERFACES and OutSystems: A Perspective on Academia-Industry Research Collaboration
António Melo, VP Engineering, OutSystems
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15:40-16:00 Coffee-break, Poster and Demo Session
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16:00 – 17:00 SESSION 3: SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS
Moderator: Francisco Veloso, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Carnegie Mellon University
Smarter Grids
Luis Marcelino Ferreira, Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL)
Macroscopic Behavior of a Microscopically Heterogeneous System
Rita Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (alumni, Graduated in 2011 in Mathematics)
Self-Organizing Power Management for Photo-Voltaic Power Plants
Vitor Grade Tavares, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP, INESC Porto)
Trustworthy and Resilient Operations in a Network Environment
Marcelo Pasin, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
Beyond Eco-feedback: Combining Art & Technology to Reduce Energy Consumption
Valentina Nisi, Madeira ITI
Peer Influence in Cell Phone Networks
Pedro Ferreira, Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL, CMU)
17:00- 17:45 CLOSING PANEL – HOW TO LEVERAGE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS IN TIMES OF CHANGE
Marques dos Santos, Rector, Universidade do Porto
João Sentieiro, President, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Pradeep Khosla, Dean, School of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
José M.F. Moura, Director at CMU, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
About Lisbon: http://www.visitlisboa.com/Home_UK.aspx .
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If you are planning to attend this event we would like to recommend a hotel in the area:
Hotel Açores Lisboa
Av. Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, 3
1070 – 060 Lisboa
Single: 73€ / per night
Double: 82€ / per night
Breakfast is included.
All guests should make their own hotel reservations by September 28th using the following emails:
Vera Caseiro – vera.caseiro@bensaude.pt / Ana Rodrigues – ana.rodrigues@bensaude.pt
When making the reservation the guests should mention: Conferência Anual do Programa Carnegie Mellon Portugal
After September 28th, the availability and rates are subject to change.
Other hotels in the area of the Reitoria da Universidade Nova de Lisboa can be found here.
