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Good Partnership between University of Madeira and Carnegie Mellon University

Good Partnership between University of Madeira and Carnegie Mellon University

Parceria proveitosa On October 27th, 2009, in Madeira, Portugal, more than 120 professors, and managers from companies like Nokia and Microsoft attended the Service Design Conference. During the opening remarks of the event, Francisco Fernandes, regional secretary of Education and Culture, commented about the partnership between the two Universities, He says “it is being very good.”

Read the Portuguese article online, from Jornal de Madeira.

IPN receives Carnegie Mellon workshop

IPN receives Carnegie Mellon workshop

The UTEN PORTUGAL, together with Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Partnership, and Carnegie Mellon University, promotes the workshop “Experiencing Technology Transfer: collaborating with Carnegie Mellon” from November 8th to 10th at Instituto Pedro Nunes, in Coimbra, Portugal.

Read the Portuguese article in PDF, from Diário As beiras.

Madeira hosts second meeting of the International Association of Service Design Network

Madeira hosts second meeting of the International Association of ‘Service Design Network’

Parceria proveitosa The second meeting of the International Association of ‘Service Design Network’ is taking place since yesterday in Funchal, Portugal. It is promoted by University of Madeira in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, and Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Partnership. The conference brings together about two hundred experts in Service Design, from around the world.

Read the Portuguese article in PDF, from Diário de Notícias da Madeira Online, Jornal da Madeira.

Professors rise concerns to government

Professors rise concerns to government

A partnership between University of Madeira in Portugal (UMa) and Carnegie Mellon University in the United States of America, is being helpful, especially in the area of Design, where several designers are participating in a Master program, which already goes to its third year.

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

Experts from Carnegie Mellon University in Coimbra

Experts from Carnegie Mellon University in Coimbra

Experts from Carnegie Mellon University will participate in the Technology Transfer Workshop, which will be held between November 8th to 10th, at Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). The workshop is organized by UTEN Portugal and Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Partnership.

Read the Portuguese article in PDF , from Diário de Coimbra.

Losing America’s Secret Weapon

Losing America’s Secret Weapon

Ada Yonath

The awards demonstrate a simple truth: The United States has been the big winner in an open, global scientific enterprise with America and its universities at the center. Yet we are jeopardizing that very system through shortsighted immigration restrictions that make it needlessly difficult for the most talented and ambitious scientists to come here and remain. […] All five of those born outside the U.S. now hold American citizenship. The only non-American–Ada Yonath of Israel–did her postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT. Read more from Forbes

When markets do not work

Oliver Williamson The name chosen for the prize in Economic Science in memory of Alfred Nobel, The Nobel Prize in Economics, surprised almost everyone. Oliver Williamson, started his career as a student at MIT, Stanford, then went through and finished a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the news of being the Nobel Price winner, just 15 days after turning into 77 years.

Read the article in PDF, in Portuguese.

Priberam Informática celebrates 20 years

Priberam Informática celebrates 20 years

Priberam Informática Priberam, an expert in software development for computational treatment of Portuguese language, legal information tools
and search engines technology, is celebrating during October, its twentieth anniversary with a change of its image, in order to mark visually the digital, technology and information concepts that define it.

The company has been participating in the collaborative program between Carnegie Mellon University and the Portuguese Government for a long time.

Read the article in PDF, in Portuguese.

Carnegie Mellon wants to remain in Portugal

 

Jared Cohon, presidente of the Carnegie Mellon University In an interview with Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University, he says that the involvement of industry in the program is essential. At a time when the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Program enters in the second half of its five years of activity, the president of the North American University went to Portugal to make a balance of what was done and a forecast of what remains to be done.

Read the articles in PDF, in Portuguese, from Diario Economico 1 and Diario Economico 2.