Américo Azevedo and António Lucas Soares are the new coordinators of the Enterprise Systems Engineering Center (EESC) at INESC TEC. Researchers ensure the positions that once belonged to Jorge Pinho de Sousa and Luis Carneiro, now INESC TEC Administrator.

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The INESC TEC General Council shall elect a new management, which takes the name of the Board of Directors (CA) INESC TEC. CA, replacing the previous direction, is composed of the President and eight Directors, establishing a model of governance pioneer among the laboratories of the country Associates.
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Raul Vidal, professor of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), will receive the Person of the Year award in Software Engineering on the 29th of June, at 14:30 in the auditorium of PT Innovation in Aveiro. The ceremony takes place at the International Conference “Trends 2015: Quality in Software Development and Services” organized by INOVA-Ria.
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Within the Music Tech Fest Scandinavia in 2015, which took place on 29 and 30 May in Sweden.

A project developed by Horácio Tomé Marques, student of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), the Doctoral Program in Digital Media, UT Austin Portugal was one of the winners of this year’s MusicBricks Incubation Awards, delivered last May in Sweden during the Music Tech Fest Encandinavia 2015.
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According to António Cruz Serra, president of the University of Lisbon, the lack of engineers in Portugal and in Europe is due to lack of computer engineering courses, which can not work around because of the strict rules for hiring teachers and budgetary constraints.
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As part of its 105th anniversary celebrations, U.Porto will distinguish jubille and retired teachers who have provided and will be able to continue to make a special contribution to the University. The names of the seven teachers and researchers who will be awarded the title of Honorary Professorat the University of Porto this year are already known.

José Luís Figueiredo focused on teaching catalysis throughout his career, as a professor at the Faculty of Engineering. In addition to being distinguished by the “Stimulus to Excellence” award given by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and by the Ferreira da Silva 2014 Award given by the Portuguese Chemical Society, several awards at international level. It is following this work that he will be recognized as a researcher at the Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials of the Associated Laboratory LSRE-LCM, in the area of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Carbon Materials.

Joaquim Silva Gomes is recognized for his work as a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering, where he taught in the area of ​​Solid Mechanics, Impact and Experimental Mechanics for over 40 years and for his involvement in the creation of INEGI (Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering), which he chaired for more than 12 years. The professor will have the task of contributing to the consolidation of research in DEMec’s Experimental Mechanics and with the extension of the collaboration with the Eduardo Mondlane University, in Mozambique.

Also full professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Artur Pimenta Alves will be distinguished for the work he developed with the SIFO project “Integrated Services Network for Fiber Optics”, referred to as the basis of INESC TEC. He was director of INESC Porto for nine years and, in 2008, he took over as Director of the Production Center of RTP Porto. To continue its work in this area, U.Porto highlights the development of a national cluster in the area of ​​media.

Raimundo Delgado, after having dedicated 42 years of his life to the Faculty of Engineering, where he was responsible for several disciplines in the field of Structures in Civil Engineering, will continue to develop and seek process improvements for the dissemination of Civil Engineering. U.Porto now recognizes its work as President of the Council of Representatives of FEUP, Director of the PhD in Civil Engineering, President of the Construction Institute and Director of the Laboratory of Seismic and Structural Engineering.

Pedro Guedes de Oliveira also dedicated a large part of his life to the Faculty of Engineering. Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), his career has also been extended to scientific research and interface institutes. Pedro Guedes de Oliveira has been President of INESC since its foundation, a position he held for seven years. It is based on this professional path that he will be distinguished as Professor Emeritus, and thus be able to contribute to the promotion of the electronics nucleus and his research activities.

With a degree in Electrotechnical Engineering from FEUP in 1972, Fernando Nunes Ferreir began his teaching activity that same year. In addition to having served two terms as Student Ombudsman at U.Porto, in his academic career, the management positions he held within the faculty also stand out, where he was president of the Department of Computer Electrotechnical Engineering (DEEC / FEUP), Director of the Computing Center and Member of the Informatics Engineering Department Council. U.Porto entrusts you with the task of developing the monitoring processes of the academic community.

Finally, Isabel Pires de Lima holds a PhD in Portuguese Literature from the Faculty of Letters, where she is a full professor and researcher. In addition to her professional activity, she dedicated herself to politics, having been Minister of Culture of the XVII Constitutional Government and deputy of the Assembly of the Republic between 1999 and 2008. As Professor Emeritus, she will be in charge of promoting, both nationally and internationally, activities of the Portuguese Culture Study Center.

The seven new Honorary Professors from U.Porto will receive their title on March 22, at the Salão Nobre da Ritoria, during the commemorative ceremony of the University of Porto Day.

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The course of Informatics and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) started in the academic year 1994/95. The course started in the form of a Degree (LEIC) from 1994/95 until 2005/06 and went on to become an Integrated Master (MIEIC) from 2006/07. In 2014, 20 years of this course will be completed and, to celebrate it, with the collaboration of the Department of Informatics Engineering at FEUP (DEI), the 20 years of Informatics and Computing Engineering at FEUP are being organized.

The days will take place on the 7th and 8th of November 2014, the week in which an exhibition will also be inaugurated in order to showcase some historical aspects of the course. On the 7th and on the morning of the 8th of November, a series of lectures and panel discussions will take place on pedagogical, curricular, professional and research aspects of the course of Informatics and Computing Engineering at FEUP. The aim is thus to ensure that Computer Engineers trained at FEUP continue to acquire the required skills, with a view to rapid and effective integration into the world of work, as well as constant updating throughout their professional lives.

For this reflection it is expected the participation of prominent personalities in the university and business world in the area of ​​Computer Engineering, former students and professors of the course.

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The project has been under development for some time, but it now knows its final and independent form. In addition to a news repository, it is an intelligent network of connections between personalities.

SAPO launches today, November 28, the online platform Time Machine. The name leaves no room for great doubts: it is a tool that allows you to go back a few years to find out what happened at the time. The content is filled with news and the form is defined through the connections between the personalities that dominated the media attention at the defined time.

There are 25 years of Portugal portrayed through 7 million news, most of which belong to the Lusa agency that made the news archive available for the project.

The concept was developed in a partnership between SAPO Labs and the Engineering College of the University of Porto (FEUP). The project was presented more significantly in the 7th edition of SAPO Codebits, with TeK presenting a preliminary phase of the idea.

During the last year, the project evolved in several areas, as explained to Tek by the person responsible for SAPO Labs, Benjamim Júnior. One of the points that has evolved is related to the entry of new journalistic partners in addition to Lusa, which allows access to information in real time. A great effort was also made to optimize the tool so that it works both on tablets and on less capable computer browsers.

Another new feature is the possibility for each user to define a personal page where they can have a more direct access to the information of the personalities who tell them the most.

Project in the area of ​​journalism, research tool, interactive tool or historical social network. Any of the definitions can describe the Time Machine that was already available in another format through the page “Mundo Visto Daqui”.

Benjamim Júnior prefers to talk about a democratization of information. “The Time Machine is a sophisticated tool for information professionals and for all people”. One of the goals of the online platform is to be able to turn files into something that is not boring, because “it takes courage to send ourselves to some files”, confessed.

The users can search for an event by data or by the person who marked that time. Benjamim Júnior highlights an event – the death of Ayrton Senna in May 1994. When a research falls on personalities, a network of links is presented with other elements that share media references at the time and that may even be related to the news. In the case of the death of the Formula 1 driver it is the names related to motorsport that appear in the “web”.

“This type of information conveys an emotional connection, it brings back memories. The name Time Machine is emotional ”, reveals the coordinator of SAPO Labs in conversation with TeK.

The entire research process is done automatically and generated by computers. Behind the Time Machine, there are many other aggregated projects that can continue to evolve from here.

Currently SAPO Labs is also developing ideas in terms of video classification, treatment and analysis of social networks and projects in the educational area.

Américo Azevedo and António Lucas Soares are the new coordinators of the Center for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) of INESC TEC. The researchers start to secure the positions that previously belonged to Jorge Pinho de Sousa and Luís Carneiro, now an Administrator at INESC TEC.

Américo Azevedo, associate professor in the Department of Engineering and Industrial Management at the Engineering College of the University of Porto (FEUP), concluded in 2000 his doctorate in the area of ​​collaborative planning systems. He was and is still currently in charge of several national and European research projects, including Adventure, VFF – Virtual Factory Framework, CORENET or oAPPS4aME, among others. He has been a collaborator with INESC TEC since 1993.

António Lucas Soares, associate professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering at FEUP, teaches Information Systems and Information and Knowledge Management. In addition, he is director of the Master’s in Information Science at the University of Porto (FEUP / FLUP). Some of the projects he has been involved in at INESC TEC, where he has been collaborating since 1993, include H-Know, cogniNet, and oRCED, among others.

Asked about the new challenge of leading the CESE, they said that they are “aware of the enormous challenge that lies ahead”. However, the knowledge and experience they have of the CESE’s environment, in particular the high experience and commitment of the entire team, simultaneously provides them with “comfort and confidence in the design and implementation of the Center’s strategy for the next three years”.

The coming times seem “challenging because of the many projects that are now starting, but also because of the countless opportunities that the target sectors of the CESE promise to provide. The aim is for an CESE to capitalize its interdisciplinary identity and culture in strategic collaborative bets with other INESC TEC centers and with international reference entities. Scientific excellence and the recognition of the business community will be the motivation for all initiatives that should result in innovative systems and services for the Company, the central object of the CESE’s scientific and technological intervention, ” affirm the new coordinators.

The INESC TEC researchers mentioned in the body of the news are linked to INESC TEC and FEUP.

INESC TEC, February 2016