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Conference and Research Workshop: “User Innovation – A Paradigm Shift”
Date: November 15-16 2012
Venue: Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Organization: Católica-Lisbon, IST/UTL, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, MIT Sloan and CMU Portugal

Scientific coordination:
Pedro Oliveira | Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Eric von Hippel | MIT Sloan School of Management
Ruth Stock-Homburg | Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Rui Baptista | Instituto Superior Técnico
November 15, 2012
18:00-20:00 – registration form here
O pening Conference “User Innovation – A Paradigm Shift”
Auditório Cardeal Medeiros, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Welcome remarks
Dean of Católica-Lisbon, Francisco Veloso

Keynote: User Innovation – A Paradigm Shift
Eric von Hippel, MIT-SLoan

Patients as Innovators , Pedro Oliveira, Católica-Lisbon
User Innovation in Portugal , Joana Mendonça, DGEEC-MEC

Commentators
– Jeroen de Jong, Erasmus University
– Ruth Stock-Homburg, TU Darmstadt
– Miguel Pina e Cunha, NOVA School of Business and Economics
– Paula Brito e Costa, Raríssimas
– Nuno Artur Silva, Produções Fictícias
– Guta Moura Guedes, Experimenta Design

Closing remarks
Secretary of State of Science, Leonor Parreira
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November 16, 2012
9:00-10:00
Culturgest-CGD, Lisbon
Keynote by Eric von Hippel at “Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon” http://www.svc2lx.com/2012/program/16
_______ November 16, 2012
10:30-18:00 [for more information please send an email to pierre.gein@ucp.pt]
Research Workshop “User Innovation – A Paradigm Shift”
Aud. Ernst & Young and Room 522A, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome coffee (Executive Lounge, 3rd floor)
10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and Introductions (Aud. Ernst & Young)
11:00 – 11:30 “Setting the stage” UI – A Paradigm Shift, Eric von Hippel (MIT-Sloan)

Research session 1: Measurement Issues and Large-Scale Surveys
• 11:30-11:50 What the Hell is Individual User Innovativeness? Definition, Conceptualization, and Scale Development
Ruth Stock-Homburg (TU Darmstadt), Pedro Oliveira (Católica-Lisbon), Eric von Hippel (MIT-Sloan)

• 11:50-12:10 Evidence from large scale surveys
Jeroen de Jong (Erasmus University)

• 12.10-12.30 User Innovation: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey in Portugal
Joana Mendonça (DGEEC-MEC), Catarina Afflalo (DGEEC-MEC), Ricardo Santos (DGEEC-MEC), Paul van der Boor (Católica-Lisbon, IST, Carnegie Mellon), Pedro Oliveira (Católica-Lisbon)

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Lunch: 12:30-14:00
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Research session 2: Users as Service Innovators
• 14:00-14:20 Innovation by Users in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Mobile Banking Services
Paul van der Boor (Católica-Lisbon, IST, Carnegie Mellon), Pedro Oliveira (Católica-Lisbon), Francisco Veloso (Católica-Lisbon)

• 14:20-14:40 Bridging User Innovation and Path Creation Theory
Hagen Habicht (HHL Leipzig)

• 14:40-15:00 Employees as User Innovators: An Empirical Investigation of an IMS
Leid Zejnilovic (Católica-Lisbon, IST, Carnegie Mellon), Pedro Oliveira (Católica-Lisbon), Francisco Veloso (Católica-Lisbon)

Coffee Break: 15:00 – 15:30

Research session 3: Innovation with Different Levels of User Involvement: Co-Creation, User Innovation, Crowdsourcing
• 15:30-15:50 Should Companies Always do What the Customer Wants? The Impact of B2B Service Co-Creation on Product Innovativeness
Ruth Stock-Homburg (TU Darmstadt), Sebastian Dreher (TU Darmstadt),

• 15:50-16:10 Leadership in Distributed Innovation
Andrei Villarroel (Católica-Lisbon), Paulo Lopes (Católica-Lisbon)

• 16:10-16:30 Co-creation and Platforms for Information Sharing: The Case of Patient-innovation.com
Catharina Van Delden (innosabi)

Coffee Break: 16:30 – 17:00

• 17:00-18:30 World Café
(topics to be defined by participants, e.g. How to connect UI with Marketing? How to capture and quantify UI in services? Etc)

20:30 Farewell Dinner

“Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation: Connect with Pittsburgh for a Regional Growth”
Date: October 31, 2012
Hour: 09:45 am – 11:15 am
Organization: Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
Venue: Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, (room 520-A, 2º floor)

Speakers:
	Suzi Pegg, Vice President, International, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), USA
	DeWitt Peart, Executive Vice President, Economic Development, Allegheny Conference on Community Development; President, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, an affiliate of the Allegheny Conference

AGENDA

09:30 Registration

09:45 Welcome to Católica – Lisbon
Francisco Veloso, Dean, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics

09:55 Topics of discussion:
Regional strengths and potential customers must serve as the backbone for entrepreneurship
Capital is scarce, worldwide. So how do you make a market without the capital needed?
How? By creating an environment of open innovation and connecting to regional stakeholders. Build/research what they want and need

Abstract: Pittsburgh’s story of reinvention has spread quickly across the world. Technologies being developed in Pittsburgh by world class universities and commercialized by entrepreneurs, have indeed helped to transform southwester Pennsylvania’s economy, but moore importantly they are solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The Pittsburgh Regional representatives are in Portugal to share the story of how growth in innovation and entrepreneurship go hand in hand as a key economic driver not just for the Pittsburgh Region but the United States and how this serves as an international business attraction magnet for the region as global companies with innovative technologies are seeking global growth through by soft landing in the Pittsburgh region.

ECE Back to Basics Colloquium: Marta Castilho Gomes on “How to get a PhD: A Reflection and Discussion of the Ph.D. Process”
Date: October 24, 2012
Hour: 13:00
Place: Room I-105, FEUP
Registration: http://www.fe.up.pt/ecebacktobasics

Marta Castilho Gomes has a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, by the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Marta Castilho Gomes was at Carnegie Mellon for three months, through the Faculty Exchange Program in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program. Marta Castilho Gomes stayed was in the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) group of the Chemical Engineering department, the research center CAPD – Center for Advanced Process Decision-making. CAPD is the largest research group in the United States in PSE, whose goals are to understand and aid complex design and operation issues faced by the industry as well as develop and advance modeling, solution methods and computer tools for PSE. The CAPD consortium has currently 22 members (chemical and petroleum industries and a number of engineering and software companies).

ABSTRACT
Although a Ph.D. thesis is a unique piece of research work, there is much in common in the PhD process independently of the area of study. In the nineties there was an explosion of literature directed at helping graduate students deal with their Ph.D. process. Based on my personal experience, in this talk I will reflect and discuss how this literature can be put into use, so that students fully understand the PhD process and are able to cope with the difficulties they may find, enabling a smooth progress towards obtaining the degree. The main reference is the book by E.M. Phillips and D.S. Pugh, “How to get a Ph.D.: A handbook for students and their supervisors”, Open University Press (1^st edition 1987; 5^th edition 2010).

Launching of the Dual Degree Program Between Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon
Date: October 23, 2012
Hour: 15:00
Place: Porto Business School, Portugal
Registrations: Helena Pinto: hpinto@pbs.up.pt

Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) have developed a dual degree program which allows participants the possibility to obtain, simultaneously, a Professional MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering awarded by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and The Magellan MBA diploma, awarded by Porto Business School. The program lasts 2 years: one year in Pittsburgh at CMU and the other in Portugal, Porto, at Porto Business School and FEUP, where the participants, besides their classes at The Magellan MBA, have to take two courses at FEUP to complete their MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Agenda

15h00 Welcome
Nuno de Sousa Pereira, Dean, Porto Business School
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Dean, Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto (FEUP)

15h10 Presentation of the MS Contents in ECE of the Dual Degree Program
Ed Schlesinger, Director, ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Director, ECE Department at FEUP

15h25 Presentation of the MBA Contents on the Dual Degree Program
Jorge Farinha, Vice-Dean, Porto Business School

15h40 Presentation
Alan Katz, Embassador, EUA in Portugal

16h00 Presentation
Carlos Oliveira, Secretary of State for Entrepreneurship*

16h15 Session: “Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Education”
Moderator : António Murta, CEO, Pathena
– Nuno Carvalho, Director, Cisco Portugal
– Diamantino Costa, Vice-President, Critical Software
– Carlos Melo Brito, Provost, Universidade do Porto for Entrepreneurship
– Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Director, ECE Department at FEUP

17h45Cocktail

*To be confirmed

Carnegie Mellon Portugal at the IST I’Day

From October 17-18, 2012, several Carnegie Mellon Portugal doctoral students will be at the IST International Day to speak about their experience in the program.The IST International Day has three main goals: – inform students of the different international programmes related to student mobility, joint Masters and Doctoral programmes, internships, etc.; – provide an opportunity for faculty, researchers and students to contact directly some of IST’s main international academic partners, thus strengthening IST’s culture of internationalisation; – foster a forum for community building and exchange of ideas amongst the IST international population as well as between the Portuguese and the international IST communities.

2012 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Student Orientation in Portugal
Date: October 12, 2012
Place: Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa – V0.15/Space 24 (CMU Portugal CLASSROOM), at the Civil Pavilion
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/95q4mbo

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program is organizing the Orientation Day for the newly enrolled students who are starting their academic year 2012/2013 in Portugal, and for all the students that want to be a part of the event. The goal of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal team is to give valuable information about the Program, and living and studying in Portugal. The students will have the opportunity to share their experiences and to meet faculty that will explain what inspire them to become entrepreneurial.
AGENDA
10:30 – 11:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

11:00 – 11:10 Welcome to Lisbon
Arlindo de Oliveira, President, Instituto Superior Técnico of the
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

11:10 – 11:25 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Overview
João Barros, National Director, ICTI@Portugal

11:25 – 11:40 New Students Introductions

11:40 – 11:55 Proper Attribution
Luís Caires, Scientific Director, ICTI@Portugal

11:55 – 12:20 Student Matters (residence card, visa requirements, other issues)
Sara Brandão, program manager, ICTI@Portugal
Lori Spears, associate director, ICTI@CMU

12:20 – 12:40 Expectations & Experience
Short presentations created by students about life in Portugal:
Susana Brandão, ECE Ph.D. Student
Leid Zejnilovic, TCE Ph.D. Student

12:40– 12:55 Alumni Chapter
Ricardo Oliveira, President, Portuguese CMU Alumni Chapter

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12:55 – 14:15 Light Lunch
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14:15 – 14:35 Technology Transfer at IST
Luis Caldas de Oliveira, Prof., Executive Board, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Relations and Technology Transfer, IST/UTL

14:35 – 14:55 Crowdfunding: Collaborative Way to Raise Funds for Ideas and Projects
Pedro Oliveira, faculty and founder of the Orange Bird

14:55 – 15:25 Closing Remarks
João Barros, National Director ICTI@Portugal

Talk about Privacy-Preserving Speech and Audio Processing
Date: September 28th, 14h
Place: Room 020, INESC-ID
Speaker: Bhiksha Raj Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Bhiksha Raj is an Associate Professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, with additional affiliations to the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Machine Learning departments. Dr. Raj obtained his Ph.D. from CMU in 2000 and was at Mistubishi Electric Research Laboratories from 2001-2008. Dr. Raj’s chief research interests lie in automatic speech recognition, computer audition, machine learning and data privacy. Dr. Raj’s latest research interests lie in the newly emerging field of privacy-preserving speech processing, in which his research group has made several contributions.

Abstract
The privacy of personal data has generally been considered inviolable. On the other hand, in nearly any interaction, whether it is with other people or with computerized systems, we reveal information about ourselves. Sometimes this is intended, for instance when we use a biometric system to authenticate ourselves, or when we explicitly provide personal information in some manner. Often, however, it is unintended; for instance a simple search performed on a server reveals information about our preferences. An interaction with a voice recognition system reveals information to the system about our gender, nationality (accent), and possibly emotional state and age. Regardless of whether the exposure of information is intentional or not, it could be misused, potentially setting us at financial, social and even physical risk. These concerns about exposure of information has spawned a large and growing body of research, addressing various issues about how information may be leaked, and how to protect it.

One area of concern are sound data, particularly voice. For instance, voice-authentication systems and voice-recognition systems are becoming increasingly popular and commonplace. However, in the process of using these services, a user exposes himself to potential abuse: as mentioned above the server, or an eavesdropper, may obtain unintended demographic information about the user by analyzing the voice and sell this information. It may edit recordings to create fake recordings the user never spoke. Other such issues can be listed. Merely encrypting the data for transmission does not protect the user, since the recepient (the server) must finally have access to the data in the clear (i.e. decrypted form) in order to perform its processing. In this talk, we will discuss solutions for privacy-preserving sound processing, which enable a user to employ sound- or voice-processing services without explosing themselves to risks such as the above.

We will describe the basics of privacy-preserving techniques for data processing, including homomorphic encryption, oblivious transfer, secret sharing, and secure-multiparty computation. We will describe how these can be employed to build secure “primitives” for computation, that enable users to perform basic steps of computation without revealing information. We will describe the privacy issues with respect to these operations. We will then briefly present schemes that employ these techniques for privacy-preserving signal processing and biometrics. We will then delve into uses for sound, and particularly voice processing, including authentication, classification and recognition, and discuss computational and accuracy issues. Finally we will present a newer class of methods based on exact matches built upon locality sensitive hashing and universal quantization, which enables several of the above privacy-preserving operations at a different operating point of privacy-accuracy tradeoff.

Robert F. Murphy Lecture at the Bioimaging 2012 about “Image-derived Models of Subcellular Organization over Time and Space”
Date: September 21, 2012
Place: INEB, Porto
Course Website : http://www.bioimaging2012.ineb.up.pt/index.html.

Robert F. Murphy is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, and Director (Department Head) of the Lane Center for Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Biology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award. He is Past-President of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, and is a member of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council and the NIH Council of Councils. He has published over 190 research papers in the areas of cell and computational biology.

Dr. Murphy’s career has centered on combining fluorescence-based cell measurement methods with quantitative and computational methods. In the mid 1990’s, his group pioneered the application of machine learning methods to high-resolution fluorescence microscope images depicting subcellular location patterns. His current research interests include image-derived models of cell organization and active machine learning approaches to experimental biology.

Eric Nyberg Seminar about Deeper QA: CMU, Watson, and the Open Advancement of Question Answering
Date: Thursday, July 19 th , 5pm
Venue: Amphitheater of the Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Speaker:
Eric Nyberg (Carnegie Mellon University)

Abstract:
This talk presents a synopsis of 10 years of research and development at Carnegie Mellon in the area of Question Answering systems, including CMU’s collaborations with IBM on the Watson system. Recent work in the open-source development of QA systems for different application domains will also be discussed.