Categoria: Highlights
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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…
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DEI TALKS | “Analyzing and Modeling Intelligent Systems Users’ Behavior in Digital Society” by Prof. Humberto Marques-Neto
“Information systems are ever-increasingly intelligent and present in the daily lives of people and companies, facilitating and modifying the performance of various activities. In addition to handling each system’s intrinsic data, data from its users’ interactions can contribute to identifying, modeling, and analyzing people’s behavior patterns. The data analysis from the usage of web systems…
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PhD Defense in Informatics (MAP-i): ”Artificial Intelligence Methods for Automated Difficulty and Power Balance in Games”
Candidate Simão Paulo Rato Alves Reis Date, Time and Place January 11, 14:00, Sala de Atos FEUP President of the Jury Carlos Miguel Ferraz Baquero-Moreno, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia, University of Porto Members João Alberto Fabro, PhD, Associate Professor, Departamento Acadêmico de Informática, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brasil; Rui…
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M.EIC students distinguished with an E-REDES Merit Scholarship
The 2nd edition of the E-REDES Top Women Scholarship brought us good news with five students from the Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering being awarded one of the 30 scholarships. Ana Matilde Guedes Perez da Silva Barra, Catarina Oliveira Pires, Eunice Juliana Freitas Amorim, Margarida Assis Ferreira and Mariana Mirra Monteiro, the distinguished students, in addition to the merit scholarship worth 2000€ will have…