How Novabase Reinvented the “Made in Portugal”
There aren’t much enterprises capable to sell intellectual property to China to pack it and send it to India. But Novabase isn’t any enterprise. And it is also different in the way it invests in social responsibility and in the way it capitalizes the engineers that sends to Carnegie Mellon University.
Read the article in Portuguese at Diário de Notícias (June 10 th ,2011).
Interfaces Project: Academic Joint Venture Optimizes Software Security
CITI, from the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, LASIGE, from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, and Carnegie Mellon University, with the Portuguese company Outsystems, are involved in the Interfaces project.
Read the article in Portuguese at Semana Informática (June 10 th , 2011).
OutSystems and the INTERFACES project
The OutSystems is the industrial partner of the INTERFACES project, which aims the development of new techniques for enforcing security, integrity, and correctness requirements on distributed extensible web‐based applications by introducing novel, semantically rich notions of interface description languages, based on advanced type systems and logics. This project is developed in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Read the Portuguese article at Computer World (May 31, 2011).
The Biggest Project of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program: Drive-In
The Drive-In project is the biggest research project funded by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. This project promises to revolutionize the communication between vehicles on the roads.
Read the Portuguese article at Jornal de Notícias (March 11, 2011).
The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program now has more 12 research projects, in the area of information technologies and communication (ICT), which promise to strengthen ties between academia and business, promoting the development and creation of knowledge and the exportation of high technology.
Read the Portuguese article at Aicep Portugal Global (March 2 nd ) // Exame Informática Online (March 1 st, 2011 ) // Extravaganza Live Online (March 1 st , 2011), Diário de Notícias da Madeira (March 1 st , 2011), Diário dos Açores (March 1 st , 2011).
Drive-IN Project: Technologies for Road Safety
The project DRIVE -IN – Distributed Routing and Infotainment through Vehicular Inter-Networking has the largest vehicular networks testbed in Europe. This project, carried out in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, is developed by researchers from the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Universidade de Aveiro (UA), and Carnegie Mellon University.
Read the Portuguese article at Diário Económico (Feb 17, 2011).
Novabase Academy: The Six Best Trainees Will Visit Carnegie Mellon University
The Novabase Academy, annual program of recruitment of new graduates ongoing since 2006, has provided the integration of nearly 400 young people from different Portuguese universities. This year, these Academy will provide again a visit to Carnegie Mellon University to the six best trainees. During their visit, they will have the opportunity to meet with Novabase employees who are currently doing their Master of Software Engineering (scholarships Novabase CMU/MSE), in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program.
Read the Portuguese article at Human Online (Feb 15, 2011).
The Universidade de Coimbra has a New Rector
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João Gabriel Silva, one of the most enthusiastic members of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, is the new rector of the Universidade de Coimbra (UC). When he presented his project, titled “Universidade de Coimbra – A Place of Knowledge and Initiative”, to become the rector of this higher education institution, he argued that the Universidade de Coimbra must take a “leading role” in the development of Portugal, “transforming knowledge into something that is socially relevant.” |
While he was head of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC), João Gabriel Silva was the principal leader of the dual degree Professional Master in Software Engineering (MSE) between the Universidade de Coimbra and Carnegie Mellon. This professional master has been a great success in both academics and industry, causing many Portuguese companies to become actively involved in the Program. Currently, the FCTUC has 30 students who have graduated from the program, and entered into the workplace to implement their research with various companies such as Portugal Telecom (PT), Novabase, Critical Software, and others. Last year, during the Student Orientation Day in Coimbra, he praised the progress of the Program, and emphasized the commitment of the Universidade de Coimbra to the partnership.
João Gabriel Silva, born in 1957, in Pombal, Portugal, completed his graduation at Universidade de Coimbra in 1980, and ended his Ph.D. eight years later. He was director of FCTUC since 2009. In 1998 he was part of a team that won an award for the business ideas with the project “Critical Software – Information Technology for Critical Systems,” and this consequently led to the creation of the company with the same name “Critical Software”.
February 2011
Science 2010: The Biggest Science Meeting in Portugal
Read the Portuguese articles at Diário de Notícias (July 4 th ) // Diário de Notícias Online (July 4 th )
