Pedro Moás é um jovem portuense que frequenta o Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação da Faculdade de Engenharia da U.Porto (FEUP). No ano letivo de 2017/18, terminou o seu primeiro ano de curso com a média final de 19,05 valores, facto que o levou a ser distinguido pela U.Porto com um Prémio Incentivo 2019, juntamente com os outros 21 alunos que mais se notabilizaram nas várias faculdades da U.Porto. É o próprio que enumera os fatores que explicam o seu sucesso no ano de estreia.
Para além do esforço pessoal que este prémio lhe reconhece, atribui também parte do mérito ao trabalho dos docentes da FEUP, que “sempre se mostraram disponíveis para esclarecer a matéria, dentro e fora de aulas, quer por e-mail, quer durante o horário de atendimento” e ao primeiro momento de contacto com a faculdade, ou seja, a semana de integração de novos alunos, que considera ter sido “bastante positiva” no sentido de “introduzir os estudantes ao ambiente da faculdade”. A nível pessoal, confessa que outro aspeto que o beneficiou grandemente foi a sensação de “maior autonomia” em relação ao ensino secundário, que experimentou na Universidade.
Há, porém, um aspeto que Pedro desejava ver melhorado na U.Porto – o sistema SIGARRA. “Precisa de ver melhorada a sua organização”, afirma Pedro Moás. “Ao longo deste ano, tenho visto vários alunos a salientar este aspeto, que pode prejudicar os estudantes que ainda não estão habituados a esta estrutura, por vezes confusa.”
No 108.º aniversário da instituição, o futuro engenheiro deseja o melhor para a U.Porto e que esta “continue a incentivar os novos alunos com iniciativas como esta.”

Pedro Saleiro, DEI ALUMNI, is 32 years old and left Porto for Chicago. Goal? Teach equity to artificial intelligence. To this, he joined Rayid Ghani, a former Obama analyst and data expert. More information here.

The National Robotics Festival arrives at the Gondomar Multipurpose Pavilion from April 26-28. In addition to about 500 participants, national and international, about 5,000 visitors are expected to attend robotic competitions and the exhibition of projects developed by various robotics clubs at the national level. More information, click here.

António Baia Reis, a professor from the Department of Computer Engineering and student of the Doctoral Program in Digital Media of the Oporto Engineering Faculty  (FEUP), will present, on May 2, at 14:30, at the Madeira Press Museum, ‘Bailinha – o Mestre Calafate’, a 360° video documentary that uses innovative technologies called ‘immersive’. More information, click  here.

There are 22 students from OPorto University and stand out for the unique quality of their academic career. On University Day 2019, this merit was recognized with the delivery of the Incentive Award, aimed at the best students of the 1st year of each U.Porto college in  2017/2018 school year. For more information, click here.

Manuel Coutinho is a native of Aveiro and is 20 years old. Almost two years after the start of the Integrated Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the U.Porto Engineering Faculty (FEUP), and overcoming the existential doubts typical of academic meninez (“what am I doing here? Can I do it?”), Manuel already faces his progress at the university with a more adult vision. “Colleagues become friends, teachers to acquaintances,” not least because, he adds, “the spirit of help and sharing was greater than he had ever experienced,” and the pace of work became easier to tame. There is, therefore, no reason to regret the choice you made at the end of high school. More information, click here.

There are several challenges facing a student at the time of the transition to university life. The adaptation to a new city or to a house that still becomes strange, the small or large responsibilities, the frenetic pace of the first half. Mário Mesquita, a student of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering at Oporto Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), received this new phase in his life with open arms. “I feel like I’ve grown a lot with all the new challenges that have come up, both academically and personally,” he says. More information, click here.

OPorto University is developing a tool using artificial intelligence to help journalists, media and other online platforms detect and reduce hate speech on the Internet.

More information at https://www.dn.pt/lusa/interior/fake-news-universidade-do-porto-cria-ferramenta-para-detect-discurso-de-odio–10579734.html

Miguel Ramalho is the winner of the fouth IBM Q Award: the IBM Q Teach Me Quantum Challenge.

More information at https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/01/ibmq-teach-quantum-winners/