News: In the Media

Priya Narasimhan Leads Intel’s New Center at CMU

Priya Narasimhan and Gregory Ganger, professors at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), will lead the two new Intel Science Research Centers, located at the institution at the areas of ‘cloud computing’ and embedded systems. Each center involves several universities and will receive 15 million dollars over the next five years. Priya Narasimhan is involved in the Vital Responder project, carried out in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program.

Read the Portuguese article at Ciência Hoje Online (August 17, 2011), Fibra Online and Ciência PT Online (August 16, 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).

Fundraising: Carnegie Mellon Commends

The focus on the connection and engagement of alumni with the university, the investment in personal contacts or the monitoring of students and their development in the business world, were some of the recommendations made ​​by the three experts from Carnegie Mellon University who recently were in Portugal, invited by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Novabase. Christine Thebes, Michael Ransom and Lori Spears explained that in the US raising funds from former students is a common practice.

Read the Portuguese article at the Newspaper OJE and OJE Online (June 28, 2011).

Engagement of the Students is a Key Factor for Fundraising in Universities

In the United States, raising funds from former students is a common practice. Christine Thebes, Michael Ransom and Lori Spears participated in the workshop “Alumni Management and Fundraising in Higher Education”, on June 17 th . This event was organized by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program and Novabase, industrial partner of the partnership, and brought together more than 40 people – deans, vice presidents, directors.

Read the Portuguese article at CiênciaPT Online (June 26, 2011).

Technology Transfer in Motion

Experts from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) were recently at the Technology Transfer Unit (UATEC) of the Universidade de Aveiro to share some of the best practices associated with the negotiation and valuation of goods created in the academic context – new products, services and start-ups. Co-organized by the UTEN Portugal and the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, this two-day event allowed the participants to discuss different aspects related to start-ups created within the universities.

Read the Portuguese article at Semana Informática (June 24, 2011).

Universities. Race for donations has arrived to Portugal.
Three experts in fundraising from Carnegie Mellon University gave a workshop to explain how fundraising works in this private university. The newspaper “i” spoke with Christine Thebes, Michael Ransom and Lori Spears to know a few tricks about this activity that is usual in American higher education system but that in Portugal usually serves only to finance research. To create a strong connection with students is essential. The event was co-organized by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program and Novabase, industrial partner of this partnership.

Read the Portuguese article at Jornal I (June, 2011).

Music and cinema industries are desperate. With the rising presence of Internet in our day to day lives more people start to think that there is no sense in buying music or movie tickets when it’s possible to have that content for free, despite being illegal. Trying to understand or even solve this rising problem was Alexandre Mateus’ goal in his thesis. The former student of Instituto Superior Técnico is 31 years old.

Read the Portuguese article at Diário Económico – Universidades (June 21, 2011).