News: In the Media

Williamson wins Nobel for study of transaction costs

This professor studied economics and management to the highest level of education in the English-speaking countries. At 77, Oliver Eaton Williamson, renowned North American author and expert in the economics of transaction costs, saw his work honored with the Prize in Economic Sciences, better known as the Nobel Prize in economics. University professor and philosopher of economic science, Williamson studied management at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955, took an MBA at Stanford University in 1960 and his Ph.D. three years later at Carnegie Mellon University. This doctorate is the highest level in education in English-speaking countries.

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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.

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

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“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.

Professors rise concerns to government

Read the Portuguese article in PDF, from Jornal da Madeira.