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CMU Portugal Program Connects
Enabling Innovation in Companies
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“CMU Portugal Program: Enabling Innovation in Companies” is the theme of the two events with companies that the CMU Portugal Program will hold on November 6 and 7 , at Porto Business School (PBS) and at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (CLSBE) , respectively. Companies that have actively participated in the CMU Portugal Program, such as CGI, OutSystems, Geolink, Wavecom, among others, have already confirmed their presence.

The main goal of these events is to leverage and strengthen the participation of companies in the different initiatives offered by the CMU Portugal Program , funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Since 2006, the year of its inception, more than 90 companies have been benefiting from the international ecosystem of education, research and innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) created by the Program. The Program brings together faculty members, researchers, doctoral and master students, business executives, startup managers, and senior staff of innovation and entrepreneurship support organisations, from both sides of the Atlantic (Portugal and United States). (Information about the impact of the partnership is available here.)

One of the highlights of these events will be the presentation of opportunities for companies on the 2 nd call for Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs) , which will remain open until December 16, 2014. ERIs are multidisciplinary innovation projects, and require the active involvement of one or more companies. The proposals must have at least two partner Portuguese research institutions, belonging to distinct higher education institutions, their institutes and research centers, from different Portuguese Universities, Carnegie Mellon University, and at least one company.

In the first call the overall level of industry participation and commitment was especially significant. More than 50 companies participated in the consortia, some in multiple proposals, with more than 60 participations. The level of commitment totaled over 3 million Euros in the 21 proposals, and over 1 million Euros in the six proposals recommended for funding. Companies like Embraer, Microsoft, and Novartis, among others, are deeply involved in these Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives .

The Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives are projects in science, engineering, management and policy that integrate activities in research, innovation, advanced education and training of human resources, with industry collaboration and emphasis on the commercialization of technology for real world impact.

November 6, 2014

Venue: Porto Business School, Porto (restaurant)

Hour: 08:30am to 10:20am

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November 7, 2014 (please register here)

Venue: Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Lisboa (room 529, 2º floor)

Hour: 12:30 to 14:20pm

12:30 Networking Light Lunch

12:45 Welcome Words

Francisco Veloso, Dean, Católica Lisbon

13:00 CMU Portugal Program: Highlights and Opportunities

João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

13:20 Enabling Innovation in Companies

OutSystems

CGI

14:20 Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

In order to prepare the logistics for the event, please register here.

After these CMU Portugal Program Connects sessions, the national director of the CMU Portugal Program will be available to meet with companies individually, to clarify and better explain the opportunities and possible outcomes of companies’ participation in the Program initiatives. If you are interested in participating in these meetings, please use the same form as before.

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Please forward this announcement to any interested parties, and feel free to contact us if you think that we can be of any help, using the email inquiries@cmuportugal.org.

CMU Portugal Program: From Graduate Education to Innovation Challenges

Date: October 25, 2014
Place: Lisbon
Registration form: http://tinyurl.com/CMUPortugal-Oct25-Event

Every year the CMU Portugal Program organises an event to welcome the newly enrolled students and the students that are arriving in Portugal for the first time, open also to all the students and alumni that are in Portugal at the time. This year, the event is scheduled for October 25 in Lisbon, 2014.

The CMU Portugal Program is an international community of more than 550 young and senior researchers from all over the world, that together seek to place Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation in key focused areas of ICT, by means of cutting edge research, world-class graduate education and a close connection with the Portuguese industry.

Agenda

10:20 – 10:30 – Meeting Point at Praça da Figueira (statue of King D. João I)

10:36 – 10:50 – Tram from Praça da Figueira to Castelo de S. Jorge (route; Miradouro Sta. Luzia)

11:00 – 12:30 – Student Reception

Venue: Castelo de São Jorge

Welcome Words

João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program

New Students Introductions

Student Matters

Sara Brandão, Executive Director, CMU Portugal Program

[12:45 – 13:00 – Walk from Castelo de São Jorge to Museu de Artes Decorativas Portuguesas (Largo das Portas do Sol, 2)]

13:00 Networking Lunch

Venue: Museu de Artes Decorativas Portuguesas (Lisbon)

Workshop “CMU Portugal Program: From Graduate Education to Innovation Challenges”

14:20 Welcome Words

14:40 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Opportunities

João Claro , National Director, CMU Portugal Program

15:00 CMU Portugal Student Lightning Talks

Paulo Casanova , Dual Degree Doctoral Student in CS (Universidade de Coimbra e CMU) and Consultant at Novabase

João Semedo , Dual Degree Doctoral Student in ECE (IST-UL, CMU, Champalimaud)

15:30 Proper Attribution Avoiding Plagiarism

Luís Caires , Scientific Director, CMU Portugal Program

15:50 Keynote Speech “Making of a Spinoff”

Bruno Cabral , CTO of Sentilant and Faculty Member and Researcher at Universidade de Coimbra

16:15 Roundtable “CMU Portugal: From Graduate Education to Innovation Challenges”

João Claro , National Director, CMU Portugal Program (moderator)

Carla Costa , TCE Alumna, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University

Miguel Duarte , MSE Alum and President, Portuguese CMU Alumni Chapter

17:20 Closing Remarks

CMU Portugal Alumni Chapter Event at Feedzai
Date: October 9, 2014
Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Feedzai SA (Edifício Atlantis, Av. João II, Lote 1.06.2.2, 1990-095 Lisboa, Portugal)

url: http://goo.gl/aDIyde

The CMU community will meet in Portugal to learn more about startup and entrepreneurship experience in Portugal and the challenges of reaching out to international markets.

Featured speaker:

Pedro Bizarro, Chief Science Officer at Feedzai, who is a recognized researcher in Complex Event Processing (CEP) and a founding member of the Event Processing Technical Society. An expert and frequent speaker in the CEP space, Pedro has lectured at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Coimbra.

MATEUS DOC VIII: Infinity – Multidisciplinary Debate Amongst Researchers
Call for proposals

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: July 30, 2014
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2014
Full paper submission: September 10, 2014
Notification of acceptance for participating in Mateus DOC: September 17, 2014
Meeting at Mateus (Vila Real): October 17-19, 2014
url: http://www.iicm.pt/en/
e-mail: info@iicm.pt

The Mateus DOC program aims at stimulating interdisciplinary debate among young researchers: doctorates and post-docs. Following previous editions of “Mateus DOC”, the Instituto Internacional Casa de Mateus (IICM) is now focussing on the issue of “Infinity”. The purpose is to gather a group of around 12 researchers willing to cross disciplinary boundaries, together discussing common issues and problems in this important topic, bridging different perspectives from several areas of knowledge, during a weekend in the “Casa de Mateus”.

 

Speaker: Professor Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Date: July 1, 2014 (Tuesday) Time: 14h30 Venue: Auditorium, CISTER, ISEP (Rua Alfredo Allen, 535, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal)

Abstract:

In this talk, we address some fundamental issues related to the modelling and optimization of power and performance of next generation of integrated systems while taking a cyber-physical approach. As such, the focus of the design methodology is not only on establishing a reliable communication infrastructure between the computational elements, but also on including time, communication, and feedback-based control as intrinsic components of the programming model; this goal allows us generalize the classical computational paradigm such that more direct interaction between the cyber-system and physical world becomes possible.

Starting from these overarching ideas, we argue that the complex requirements for high-performance and low-power design, as well as reliable and safe operation of future integrated systems call for a truly multidisciplinary approach which brings together concepts and techniques from real-time computing and signal processing, multiprocessor architecture and OS design, as well as distributed and self-organized control.

 

Short bio

Radu Marculescu is a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1998.

He has received the Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated circuits and Systems in 2012, the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems in 2011 and 2005, as well as several best paper awards in major conferences in the area of design automation and multi-core design.

Currently, Dr. Marculescu is the Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation and an Associate Editor of Elsevier Journal of Nano Communication Networks. In the past, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computers, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, ACM Trans. on Embedded Computing Systems, and IEEE Trans. on VLSI.

He has been involved in organizing several international symposia, conferences, workshops, and tutorials, as well as guest editor of special issues in archival journals and magazines. His research focuses on design methodologies and software tools for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and biological systems. Radu Marculescu is an IEEE Fellow.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop
Date: June 20, 2013
Place: Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisbon, Portugal
Organized by: Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, funded by FCT
Registration Form: http://tinyurl.com/k649lco

Open Call for the Pitch Coaching Session: https://cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4660

This half-day event (13:00 – 18:00) will combine a Pitch Coaching Session with Case Studies on “Multiple Paths for Technology Commercialization,” and will finish with a roundtable about “The Life of IP.” The goal of the event is to join our community to discuss different potential commercialization pathways, to provide an overview of different types of support for knowledge transfer in Portugal and at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as to provide an overview of the IP lifecycle.
Agenda
12:30 – 13:00 Registration

13:00 – 14:00 ICT Networking Lunch
[Number of participants is limited]

14:00 – 14:15 Reception and Welcome Session
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

14:15 – 15:15 Pitch Coaching Session “Product Idea”
(Call for students and faculty members; 5’ pitch + 5’ discussion)

15:15 – 16:15 Case Studies “Multiple Paths for Technology Commercialization
Moderator: João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

Speakers:
Susana Sargento, co-founder, Veniam
Hugo Gamboa, CEO, Plux
Reed McManigle, Manager for Business Development and Licensing, CTTEC, CMU
Paulo Marques, Chief Technology Office, Feedzai
Pedro Araújo, CEO, ACSystems

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee-Break & Networking

16:45 – 17:45 Roundtable “The Life of IP”
Moderator: José Maria Maurício, Member of the Directive Council, INPI
Speakers:
Maria Oliveira, Director, Universidade do Porto Innovation (UPIN)
Reed McManigle, Manager for Business Development and Licensing, CTTEC, CMU
Luis Joaquim, Manager of Product Development Area, Critical Software

17:45 – 18:00 Closing Session
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program

If you have questions, please send an email to: event@cmuportugal.org .

Research Workshop on “Embraer in Europe”: A new Research Framework through Carnegie Mellon Portugal
Organized in the scope of the Technology, Management and Policy Graduate Consortium

Date: June 25, 2014
Hour: 14:00 – 21:00
url: http://in3.dem.ist.utl.pt/tmp2014/index.asp
Registration: http://in3.dem.ist.utl.pt/tmp2014/participants_registration.asp

This Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) looks at the increasing complexity and uncertainty of technological advances and related value chains and business configurations in modern aeronautics. It is motivated by the recent installation of two new Embraer plants in Évora, Portugal. It has the ultimate goal of securing their role as centers of excellence in aeronautics, with unique characteristics within the Embraer Group and worldwide. Evora’s plants are a singular case: although being fully owned by Embraer a Junes OEM, both plants work as first tier suppliers of the Mother-Company, Embraer S.A., in Brazil.

This requires the full integration of their activities within the needs of Embraer S.A. while also keeping a competitive edge with respect to other suppliers in Embraer’s supply chains. Nowadays, ICT is crucial across industries in addressing supply chains issues between manufacturers and their suppliers.

ICT systems are essential to anticipating problems and opportunities in the supply chain management, supporting decision-making at four levels:

i) identification, capacitation and qualification of new technology based suppliers (for specialized products and services);

ii) monitoring suppliers performance in order to pro-actively address risky situations or opportunities, such as variations in production pace;

iii) monitoring the industry and

iv) assessing network effects that endanger or synergize the supply chain.

Thus, this project focuses on managing large data sets and ICT-based logistic platforms among OEMs and suppliers. In addition, it will focus on the creation, integration and development of new technology based firms in the value chain of the aeronautics sector that can serve as key economic agents to foster and facilitate technological innovations. The emphasis will be on value-added platforms to facilitate the necessary technological advances including opportunities for new employment and skills development and their impact on regional development.

Chairperson: Manuel Heitor and Joana Mendonça, IN+/IST, Lisbon, PT

• Presentation of new Research Framework and Project, 2014-2017:
o João Pedro Taborda, Embraer
o Joana Mendonça, IN+/IST, Lisbon
o Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh
o Ana Barros, INESC TEC, Porto
o Manuel Freitas, IDMEC, Lisbon
o João Pedro Mortágua, CEIIA
o Ricardo Reis, Embraer Portugal
• Discussants:
o Andrew Weaver, MIT Sloan, Cambridge
o Andre Furtado, UNICAMP, Campinas
o Alfreen Siddiqi, MIT, Cambridge
o Roberto Sbragia, Univ. São Paulo
o Sebastian Pfotenhauer, MIT, Cambridge

19:00 A “Beer in Lisbon” @ Park, Calçado do Combro, Lisboa (Metro: Baixa-Chiado)

20:00 Dinner @ “O Século”, Rua do Século

2nd Internacional Conference on Physiological Computing Systems – PhyCS 2015
Date: 11-13 February, 2015
Venue: ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France
Url: http://www.phycs.org/

Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is opening new boundaries in the field of human-computer interaction into what can be defined as Physiological Computing. PhyCS is the annual meeting of the physiological interaction and computing community, and serves as the main international forum for engineers, computer scientists and health professionals, interested in outstanding research and development that bridges the gap between physiological data handling and human-computer interaction. This event is supported by CMU Portugal Program.

Conference Areas
1. Devices
2. Methodologies and Methods
3. Human Factors
4. Applications

Conference Co-chairs
Hugo Plácido da Silva, IT- Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Pierre Chauvet, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France

Program Co-chairs
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Dennis Majoe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote Speaker
Sergi Jorda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Upcoming Deadlines
Regular Paper Submission: September 9, 2014
Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 25, 2014
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: December 10, 2014

2014 Edition of LARSyS Summer School Coming In July
Date: 8 to 11 July, 2014
Venue: Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL)
Url: http://omni.isr.ist.utl.pt/LARSySSummerSchool2014.html

The 2014 edition of the LARSyS Summer School will take place between 8 and 11 July, at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in Lisbon, Portugal, and will be focusing on the theme “Multi-agent systems: distributed decision-making, signal processing and optimization.”

With João Xavier, assistant professor at IST, as the scientific chair, the program of the LARSyS Summer School contains both general and more focused lectures, and covers hot research topics in distributed multi-agent systems from signal processing, control, and optimization.

José M. F. Moura, director of the CMU Portugal Program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), will be doing a presentation titled “Data Science: Rethinking DSP,” while Dragana Bajović, Dušan Jakovetić and João Mota, alumni of the dual degree Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering are doing presentations on “Distributed Inference in Wireless Sensor Networks,” “Distributed Optimization in Multi-agent Systems,” and “Communication-Efficient Algorithms for Distributed Optimization,” respectively.

The Summer School is organized by LARSyS, an Associate Laboratory that gathers six R&D units from four Portuguese Universities (Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade dos Açores and Universidade da Madeira).

Registration is free, but seats are limited. To register, please send e-mail to Ana Mateus (ana.mateus@ist.utl.pt).