The “Smart Inspector” Code V Was Invented in Coimbra
An innovative technology which allows to detect and correct timely some software security problems, was developed by one of the startups created within the CMU Portugal program: DOGNAEDIS.
Read the Portuguese article at Fibra Online (September 16, 2011).
Third Annual Carnegie Mellon Portugal Conference
Leonor Parreira, Secretary of State for Science, attended the opening session of the Conference. Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was proud of the results that were achieved by the partnership in just five years. The president of CMU took the theme of the conference to stress the importance of having a strong link between academia and companies: “We live in a time of global crisis. At Carnegie Mellon University we are aware of the difficulties, but we believe that the link between academia and industry or the increasing creation of startups by our researchers is one way to get around. ”
Read the Portuguese articles at Ciência PT (October 11, 2011), Super Indústria Online (October 11, 2011).
Five years after being launched, the program is showing positive results, according to companies, universities and students. The Ministry of Education and Science will evaluate the partnership. Clothing that measures vital signs of cardiac patients. Taxis avoiding traffic, and free from those loud calls from the analog radio. A smart city in Paredes and also an advanced system translating simultaneously both spoken and written language for foreign language students. These are just some of the visible results of the projects that have been or are still being developed under the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)-Portugal program, which involves nine universities in Portugal, as well as associated laboratories, institutes and over 80 companies.
Priya Narasimhan Leads One of the Intel Science Research Centers
P riya Narasimhan will take the lead of one of the Intel Science Research Centers, working in incorporated systems. The other center works on cloud computing and will be under the supervision of Gregory Ganger, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Priya is also a professor at CMU and also works as a researcher with João Paulo Cunha, in Vital Responder – a project developed under the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Read the Portuguese article at Fibra (September 1, 2011), Fibra Online (August 16, 2011).
Making Computers See Like Humans Lead Portuguese Scientists to the USA
To make computers “see like humans”, recognizing the relationships between objects is the challenge of two young Portuguese scientists in the United States. José Jerónimo Rodrigues and Ricardo Cabral, who are doctoral students of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, are now completing their internships at the Industrial Light & Magic and the Qualcomm, respectively.
Read the Portuguese article at Diário de Notícias Online (August 28, 2011), Diário de Notícias da Madeira, Jornal da Madeira Online, BIT Online, Sapo Online, Lusa, Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, Correio da Manhã, Jornal da Madeira Online, Ciência Hoje (August 29, 2011), Correio do Minho (August 30, 2011), Diário de Aveiro (August 30, 2011), Universia (August 31, 2011).
Project Develops a Specific Type of Intelligent Surveillance
Francisco Melo, researcher at INESC ID, explains the goals of the “MAIS+S: Multiagent System for Intelligent Surveillance” project. This is one of the twenty two research projects developed under the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, which is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Read the Portuguese article at Ciência Hoje Online (August 12, 2011), Diário dos Açores (August 21, 2011), Mundo Português (August 31, 2011).
Francisco Rocha, alumnus of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, and Miguel Correia, researcher at the Universidade de Lisboa, presented a paper titled “Lucy in the Sky without Diamonds: Stealing Confidential Data in the Cloud”, at the First International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Computing Environments (DCDV 2011), in conjunction with the 41 st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011). This paper results from Francisco Rocha thesis, titled “Privacy in Cloud Computing”, developed in the scope of the Master program in Information Technology – Information Security. After finishing his professional master program, Rocha continued to work with Miguel Correia, his advisor during the course, and to pursue research in the cloud computing area.
Read the Portuguese article at Exame Informática (August 1 st , 2011).
First Edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning School
The main objective of LxMLS2011 was to promote learning about techniques and contents related to the complexity and dynamism of information networks. During five days this event gathered national and international speakers and researchers, representing several universities and institutions, who spoke about their areas of work and research, and coordinated workshops and laboratories in different areas.
Read the Portuguese article at CiênciaPT Online (July 17, 2011), Ciência Hoje (July 16, 2011), HiperSuper Online (July 20, 2011).
Porto City has the Biggest Testbed in Vehicular Networks
The Drive-In project, carried out in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, equipped almost 500 with a device developed by several Portuguese universities, companies, and the Carnegie Mellon University. This is the largest testbed in vehicular networks that give to the researchers the opportunity to study several issues, namely: traffic efficiency and security in the city of Porto. The reporter from the Portuguese newspaper Público spoke with Michel Ferreira, researcher from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, with Peter Steenkiste, from Carnegie Mellon, and with the dual degree Ph.D. student Rui Meireles.
Read the Portuguese article at Público Online (July 17, 2011), Boas Notícias (July 19, 2011).
