News: In the Media

Óbidos is chosen to be the research platform for MIT Portugal

Approximately 20 teachers and researchers responsible for the coordination of research projects through the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Portugal program with several Portuguese universities, met in Óbidos, on October 2nd. This was the first meeting conducted under the protocol signed between the municipality of Óbidos and the Foundation for Science and Technology to establish a platform there for the research and sharing the work of three partnerships established between the Portuguese government and U.S. universities MIT (Cambridge), Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and the University of Texas (Austin).

Read the article online, in Portuguese, from Caldas Gazette.

GPS system gives the advantage for cars to ‘talk’ to each other

Is the so-named system that will allow cars to produce information collected by GPS and, via WiFi (wireless network), distribute it to other cars that are nearby. Driving will never be the same, especially in terms of security. The Drive In is being developed by the Telecommunications Institute in Porto, in partnership with the North American University of Carnegie Mellon.

Read the article online, in Portuguese, from Expresso.pt.

Institute Pedro Nunes will host the workshop on Carnegie Mellon’s technology transfer model link with industry, between November 8th to 10th, 2021.

Read the Portuguese article, from Bit online.

International Workshop on Technology Transfer

Read the Portuguese article online, from Ciência Hoje Online, Ciência PT Online.

“Portugal is winning an innovation culture”

Interview to João Barros, National Director of the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Program Partnership between north-american university, portuguese universities and industry is creating new solutions in information and communication technologies (ICT)

Read the Portuguese article in PDF, Jornal de Notícias.

Major business development in Europe provides advice to Portugal

“We must not ignore the opportunities created by this crisis.” Say David Gill, executive director of St. John’s Innovation Center, who was present as guest speaker at the workshop sponsored by the University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN) Portugal, in Aveiro, Portugal, from October 18th to 20th. The organizing committee has as a collaborators the University of Texas at Austin, MIT-Portugal, Carnegie Mellon | Portugal, University of Cambridge, and the Fraunhofer Institute.

Read the Portuguese article in PDF, from Diário Económico.

Among the various research projects, and technologies already applied to these devices, the one submitted by one of the departments of Carnegie Mellon University, can be closer to help in the solution of this problem. The solution involves applying a layer of latex isolated to on the screen, where there are predefined forms (can be buttons, sets of pixels, etc.), that can inflat or deflat in order to create relief.

Read the article online, in Portuguese, from PC de Bolso.

Conference leverages tourism

The Hotel CS in Madeira hosted the closing ceremony of the Service Design Conference 2009, an initiative that brought to Funchal, 120 experts from around the world, students, and professionals from major business groups such as Nokia or Microsoft. The conference is brought by the partnership established between University of Madeira (Department of Mathematics and Engineering), in Portugal, and Carnegie Mellon University, in the United States.

Read the Portuguese article online, from Jornal da Madeira Online.

Service Design brings experts to Madeira

Read the article in Portuguese, from Diário de Notícias da Madeira.pt