Categoria: Events
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PhD Defense in Informatics Engineering: ”Enhancing Research Data Lifecycle: Solving Observation-centric and Reproducibility Challenge”
Candidate Artur Jorge da Silva Rocha Date, Time and Place May 17, 14:30, Sala de Atos FEUP President of the Jury Pedro Nuno Ferreira da Rosa da Cruz Diniz, PhD, Full Professor, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Members José Luís Brinquete Borbinha, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade…
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Creativity Talks | “ ‘Design thinking’ and its relationship to other disciplinary approaches” by Prof. Nathan Crilly
Efforts to promote creativity often centre on encouraging people to engage in ‘design thinking’. Although this term has many different meanings, many of these meanings centre on the idea that even non-designers should behave more like designers. That is, people should treat whatever they are influencing as though it is something they are designing, whether…
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SEMINÁRIO | “Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: The (lack of) security of Machine Learning models” by João Vitorino
There are several technological and ethical challenges that undermine the trustworthiness of Machine Learning. One of the main challenges is the lack of robustness, which is an essential property to ensure that ML models are used in a secure way. Improving robustness is no easy task because the models are inherently susceptible to adversarial examples:…
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DEI TALKS | “A Survey of Tasks Derived from or Related to Natural Language Inference” by Prof. Martin Víta
“Natural language inference (recognizing textual entailment task in the past) belongs to the most prominent tasks in current NLP, it is a keystone of natural language understanding. NLI can be stated as a classification task whether a given hypothesis can be inferred from a given premise. In this talk, we are going introduce a large variety…
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Creativity Talks | “Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination: The Creative Act of Value Sensitive Design” by Batya Friedman
The thirteenth session of the Creativity Talks, the first of 2024, will have as keynote speaker the distinguished University of Washington Professor Batya Friedman, a value sensitive design (VSD) pioneer, an approach that takes human values into account when designing technical systems. She will demonstrate how her work in this area has resulted in robust theoretical…
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Presentation of DEI’s Master Programmes
The Department of Informatics Engineering will promote a session aimed to introduce the master programmes hosted by this department. The session will be held on Wednesday afternoon, February 14, in FEUP Auditorium. It will be an opportunity for undergraduate students to find out details about these masters, their areas of study, employability and the prospects…
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DEI TALKS | “Architectures for building Extraordinary Software” with Joseph Yoder, Graziela Simone Tonin, Neil Harrison and Filipe Correia
When building complex systems, it can be all too easy to primarily focus on features and overlook software qualities, specifically those related to the architecture. Pressure to adapt to and shape the market requires organizations to add new features, accommodate new interactions, and have new teams work on adapting the software. Some believe that by…
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DEI TALKS | “Let’s discuss about Models and Languages for embedded systems in Industry 4.0” by Prof. Julio Medina
“This talk proposes to have a conversation about the trends in conceptual modelling languages used for the design and analysis of real-time and embedded systems in the context of the ever changing industrial environments but never changing business demands”. “Let’s discuss about Models and Languages for embedded systems in Industry 4.0” will be presented February…
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Talk a Bit is back for its 12th edition
*Talk a Bit is back on stage at the FEUP Auditorium next Saturday, February 3. The theme of this 12th edition, “Today’s Choices, Tomorrow’s World“, will highlight the profound impact of contemporary technological decisions on the future. The programme will feature insightful talks and discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its role in health, smart…
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PhD Defense in Informatics Engineering : ”Highly reconfigurable smart component system”
Candidate Luís Carlos de Sousa Moreira Neto Date, Time and Place January 31, 14:15, Sala de Atos FEUP President of the Jury Carlos Miguel Ferraz Baquero-Moreno, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto. Members Julio Luis Medina Pasaje, PhD, Associate Professor, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y Electrónica, Facultad de…