News: Event News

ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform
Date: October 20 – 22, 2015
Location: Lisbon, Portugal.
url: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/ICT2015

The European Commission, together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, will host the ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform event.

The ICT 2015 event will comprise a number of parallel activities:

• A policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme);
• An interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation;
• Many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, helping participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration;
• Funding opportunities: ICT 2015 will also be the place to gather information on the 2016 Work Programme of Horizon 2020.

Registrations will open by May 2015.

Innovation Evenings by ANI
Date: July 2 and July 9, 2015
Location: Porto and Lisbon, respectivelly
url: http://aninov.pt/fins-de-tarde-da-inovacao/

The Portuguese Agência Nacional de Inovação – ANI (National Agency for Innovation) will organize two late afternoon networking events for the innovation agents in Portugal, gathering all in an environment of sharing and informal discussion. This innitiative comes in the conclusion of the QREN program and the beginning of the new Portugal 2020 main topic will be the technological innovation in collaboration and its internationalization, as a driver of national competitiveness.

The events will take place in July 2 nd in Porto, at the Hotel Fénix Ipanema and in July 9 th in Lisbon, at Teatro Thalia. To register, please visit: http://aninov.pt/fins-de-tarde-da-inovacao/registo-fins-de-tarde-inovacao/

UTEN Portugal
2015 Global Startup: Call for Applications is now Open!
Deadline: July 5, 2015
url: http://utenportugal.org/global-startup-program/

The 2015 Global Startup Program, an initiative carried out in the scope of the UTEN Portugal, has as a call open until July 5, 2015. Since 2013, its purpose is to assist the success of Portuguese entrepreneurial endeavors in different phases of development:

1. Early stage startup ventures: typically based on a technology that is under development, no sales, and ambitions to move to the United States to obtain funding, development, and commercialization roadmaps.

2. More mature ventures , typically with sales in domestic markets, that desires to initiate the internationalization process in the United States and other international markets. In such cases, the IC² Institute team will work with company leaders to develop a commercialization plan and conduct business development activities with the goal of closing deals in the United States.

This program builds on the experience from the past edition of US Connect in 2011 and 2013 that has produced excellent results for Portuguese startups such as Bioalvo, Feedzai, Technophage, Innovapotek, Tecla Colorida, Tuizzi, Omniflow, Auditmark, Abyssal, and Celfinet, both in terms of business development, incubation, and closure of deals.

Companies selected to “Go Global” will receive executive coaching, mentoring and direct business development, sales and marketing assistance from a dedicated team of seasoned veterans who also leverage the Institute’s network of experts committed to assist Portuguese entrepreneurs and innovators in their commercial expansion overseas.

For more information on the application details, Terms of Reference and Model Pitch please visit the 2015 call page and the Global Startup Program flyer.

1 st Patient Innovation Awards
Date: July 13, 2015
Venue: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
url: http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7ed42017b5a721b88e1910afb&id=2d6c3fee79

The Patient Innovation platform has announced the winners of the 1st Innovation Awards competition. The platform’s Advisory Board, composed of six experts in the areas of technology and medicine, has chosen among 200 eligible candidacies, six winners in individual categories:

• In the category “ patients ”: Lisa Crites (USA) with the Shower Shirt, Louis Plante (Canada) with the Frequencer and Tal Golesworthy (UK) with the Exovasc;
• In the category “ caregivers ”: Debby Elnatan (Israel) with Upsee and Joaquina Teixeira (Portugal) with the helium balloons;
• In the category “ collaborators ”: Ivan Owen (USA) who has helped many patients get 3D-printed prosthetic hands;

Please register to attend the event: https://www.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt/patient-innovation-awards-ceremony

Patient Innovation is an international online platform and social network, launched in 2014, where patients and caregivers can share their innovative and user-generated health solutions. It is an outcome of the “The Role of ‘User Innovators’ in the Development of Telecom Products and Services” project and it is currently developed by the “TEIPL:Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Lab” ERI, offered by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Conference: IP Issues in ICT

Date: 18 June 2015 Venue: Room B032, at FEUP, Porto, Portugal Organized by: INESC TEC url: http://ipict2015.inesctec.pt Registration: http://ipict2015.inesctec.pt/registration

Intellectual Property (IP) is one of the foundations for building an innovative and competitive economy, and fundamental for any country investing in innovation, technology and research. Due to their nature, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) present specific challenges regarding intellectual property. The interplay between open and proprietary codes, as well as the diverse views on copyrights and software patents, requires both awareness and expertise in order to fully exploit the advantages of the IP rights system.

This is specifically designed for Academia, where renowned international IP experts will be discussing the importance of IP and patents in the area of ICT. This is one of the initiatives organised as part of INESC TEC’s 30th anniversary celebrations.

PROGRAM

9:00 am – Registration

9:30 am – Opening session
INESC TEC President

10:00 am – Computer implemented inventions – the current view of the European Patent Office
EPO patent examiner for Computer Implemented Inventions, Munich, Germany

11:00 am – Coffee break

11:30 am – IP strategy in IMEC: applied research in ICT and microelectronics
Kathleen De Belder, IP Business and Intelligence officer, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

12:30 pm – Lunch break

02:00 pm – Open source software issues: licenses, patents and defensive publications
Malcolm Bain, Partner, id law partners, Barcelona, Spain

03:00 pm – Industry trends in open innovation communities
Mirko Boehm, Director for Linux System Definition, Open Innovation Network, Berlin, Germany

04:00 pm – Closing session

Fostering Science & Innovation Ecosystems: Portugal – USA Partnerships

Date: May 28 – 29, 2015 Venue: Palácio Foz, Lisbon Streaming: http://live.fccn.pt/fct/fsie/ Transportation will be provided (partnerships members): form Email: ipartnerships.conference@utenportugal.org Invitation: https://cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=5910

On May 28-29, 2015, the International Partnerships – CMU Portugal, MIT Portugal and UT Austin Portugal -, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, will hold the 1st Joint Conference and Exhibition. The purpose of these events is to showcase the quality of the activities and outcomes of the partnerships to Portugal, the commitment and the high regard that the partnerships have in the US universities, and the strength and quality of the relationships that have been created.

Exhibition
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Highlighting the collaboration between Portuguese institutions and American universities.

8:30pm – 11:00pm Science Dinner and Poster Exhibition

Conference
Friday, May 29, 2015

8:30am – 9:00am Participants Registration

9:00am – 10:15am Opening Session

Chair: José M. Mendonça, Scientific Director, UTEN Portugal

CMU Portugal Program
João Claro, National Director
José M.F. Moura, Director at CMU

MIT Portugal Program
Paulo Ferrão, National Director
Bruce Tidor, Acting Director at MIT

UT Austin Portugal Program
Fernando Santana, National Director
Marco Bravo, Director at UT Austin

Fostering Science & Innovation Ecosystems: Portugal-USA Partnerships
Jimmy Hsia, Vice Provost for International Programs and Strategy, CMU
Bernd Widdig, Director of International Affairs, MIT
Juan Sanchez, Vice President for Research, UT Austin

António Cruz Serra, Rector of the Universidade de Lisboa, CRUP Representative
Maria Arménia Carrondo, President, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Leonor Parreira, Secretary of State for Science

10:15am – 10:50am Keynote

Full STEAM Ahead for Growth
The Seminal Role of ICT and the Knowledge Triangle of Research, Higher Education and Innovation
Sir John O’Reilly, FREng HonFIET, Chairman of NICC (Standards) Ltd., former Director-General for Knowledge and Innovation, UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

10:50am – 11:10am Coffee break with Poster Session

11:10am – 1:00pm

Panel A – Transforming Graduate Education in Portugal

Chair: António Rendas, Rector of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, CRUP Representative in the Board of Directors, UT Austin Portugal Program

Keynote: Jimmy Hsia, Vice Provost for International Programs and Strategy, CMU

Highlight talks
André Martins, Research Scientist, Priberam Labs
António Neves Silva, Project Manager – Innovation & Markets, Veolia
Paulo Vicente, Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova Lisboa; Founder/CEO Bagabaga Studios

Roundtable
Elsa Henriques, Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
Isabel Rocha, Professor, Universidade do Minho
Nuno Correia, Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Nuno Nunes, President, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI)

1:00pm – 2:10pm Networking Lunch with Poster Session

2:10pm – 4:00pm

Panel B – Investing in World-class Research

Chair: Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Rector of the Universidade do Porto, CRUP Representative in the Board of Directors, CMU Portugal Program

Keynote: Bruce Tidor, Acting Director at MIT, MIT Portugal Program

Highlight talks
Brian Korgel, Emerging Technologies
Maria Pereira, Head of Adhesive Technologies, Gecko Biomedical
Susana Sargento, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Veniam’Works

Roundtable
Adélia Sequeira, Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
Afreen Siddiqi, Research Scientist, MIT
Paula Vilarinho, Professor, Universidade de Aveiro
Peter Steenkiste, Professor, CMU

4:00pm – 4:20pm Coffee break with Poster Session

4:20pm – 6:20pm

Panel C – Enhancing Innovation for Social and Economic Impact

Chair: José Carlos Caldeira, President, Agência Nacional de Inovação

Keynote: Gregory Pogue, IC2 Institute, UT Austin

Highlight talks
Aurora Teixeira, UTEN Portugal, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto
Gonçalo Amorim, Building Global Innovators
Pedro Oliveira, Project Leader and Principal Investigator, Patient Innovation
Pedro Pinto, Founder and CEO, Take the Wind

Roundtable
Diamantino Lopes, Co-founder and CEO, Metablue
Jorge Salles Gomes, CEO, Brisa Inovação
Paulo Marques, Co-founder and CTO, Feedzai
Priya Narasimhan, Professor, CMU

6:20pm – 7:00pm Closing Session

James H. Garrett, Dean, CMU’s College of Engineering
Bernd Widdig, Director of International Affairs, MIT
Robert Peterson, Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin
Pedro Carneiro, Vice President, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

Organizing Committee
João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program
José M.F. Moura, Director at CMU, CMU Portugal Program
José M. Mendonça, Scientific Director, UTEN Portugal
Paulo Ferrão, National Director, MIT Portugal Program
Bruce Tidor, Acting Director at MIT, MIT Portugal Program
Fernando Santana, National Director, UT Austin Portugal Program
Marco Bravo, Director at UT Austin, UT Austin Portugal Program

Executive Directors of the International Partnerships
Luís Meneses Nazaré, UTEN Portugal
Miguel Carvalho, MIT Portugal Program
Pedro Madeira, UT Austin Portugal Program
Sara Brandão, CMU Portugal Program

Coordination of the Event
Alexandra Carvalho Vieira, Head of Communications and Events, CMU Portugal Program
Ana Lopes, Events Support, CMU Portugal Program
Silvia Castro, Communications Director, MIT Portugal Program

“Fostering Science & Innovation Ecosystems:
Portugal-USA Partnerships”
The agenda is online here!
Streaming: http://live.fccn.pt/fct/fsie/

Date: May 28-29, 2015
Venue: Palácio Foz, Lisboa, Portugal

Invitation

On May 28-29, 2015, the International Partnerships – CMU Portugal, MIT Portugal and UT Austin Portugal -, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, will hold the 1st Joint Conference and Exhibition on “Fostering Science & Innovation Ecosystems: Portugal-USA Partnerships”.

The events will take place at Palácio Foz, in Lisbon. The purpose of these events is to showcase the activities and outcomes of the partnerships to Portugal, the commitment of the USA universities, and the strength of the relationships that have been created regarding Education, Research and Innovation. (a preliminary agenda and additional information will be provided in the coming weeks)

We would be very honored to count with your participation in helping to build this environment for discussion and collaborative growth. Yours Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee of the 1st Joint Conference of the International Partnerships

Dava Newman, MIT Portugal Program

Fernando Santana, UT Austin Portugal Program

João Claro, CMU Portugal Program

José M. F. Moura, CMU Portugal Program

José M. Mendonça, UTEN Portugal Program

Marco Bravo, UT Austin Portugal Program

Paulo Ferrão, MIT Portugal Program

R.S.V.P. thought the registration form available at: http://goo.gl/ns4MD9

Email: ipartnerships.conference@utenportugal.org / Invitation here

Brave New World: Did the Future Arrive Too Early?
Date: June 12 th 2015
Location: Casa da Música, Porto
url: http://ffms.pt/admiravelmundonovo

Some of the greatest international technology experts will be at Casa da Música to debate the new trends in the field and what the current increasing technological advancement will bring us. “Brave New World: Did the Future Arrive Too Early?”, organized by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, is a day-long event, with discussion four panels under the themes “Digital Me”, “Intelligent Life”, “Economy 2.0” and “Digital Republic”.

The opening remarks will be delivered by Manuela Veloso , professor at Carnegie Mellon University and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. She is deeply involved in the CMU Portugal program, as a leader of an ERI project and advisor of several PhD students. Also among the long list of speakers are Evgeni Morozov , author and Slate columnist; Bruce Sterling , science-fiction author and Wired columnist; Ellen Jorgensen , Genspace director; Tyler Cohen , economist, professor and director of the Mercatus Center.

Agenda

8:00 Welcome Session

9:30 Opening Remarks

Manuela Veloso, Professor of Carnegie Mellon University

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Digital Me

David Brin, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Evgeni Morozo, Columnist for Slate

11:45 Intelligent Life

Ellen Jorgensen, Director for Genspace

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Economy 2.0

Tyler Cohen, Director for Mercatus Center

15:45 Digital Republic

Andrew Chadwick, Professor of University of London

Francisca Bria, Senior Project Lead of Nesta

Mário Campolargo, Director for “Net Futures” in DG CONNECT

17:00 Coffee Break

17:30 Jake Bowers Interviews Bruce Sterling

Jake Bowers, Professor of University of Illinois

Bruce Sterling, Columnist for Wired

18:15 Meeting Summary

Ana Lehmann, Professor of Católica-Lisbon School of Bussiness & Economics

18:30 Closing Remarks

Alexandre Soares dos Santos, Founder of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

19:00 Special Feature from “Governo Sombra” TV show

Carlos Vaz Marques, João Miguel Tavares, Ricardo Araújo Pereira and Pedro Mexia

CMU Portugal PhD Student at the Priberam Labs Seminars
Date: April 28, 2015 (13h00 – 14h00)
Location: Anfiteatro do Complexo Interdisciplinar, IST – Alameda, Lisbon
url: http://labs.priberam.com/Academia-Partnerships/Seminars.aspx

Wang Ling is a student of the dual Ph.D. program in Language Technologies between Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico, where he also received his master degree in 2009. His Ph.D. work focuses on Machine Translation in noisy domains, such as Twitter, and Deep Learning for NLP.

Abstract:

We present a neural network model that computes embeddings of words using recurrent network based on long short-term memories to read in characters. As an alternative to word lookup tables that require a set of parameters for every word type in the vocabulary, our models only require a look up table for characters and a fixed number of parameters for the compositional model, independent of the vocabulary size. As a consequence, our model uses fewer parameters and is also sensitive to lexical content, such as morphology, making it more adequate for tasks where morphological information is required. In part-of-speech tagging, we can perform competitively with state-of-the-art systems, without explicitly engineering lexical features, and using a relatively small number of parameters.