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Contents 1 Mission 2 Advisory Board 3 Associations 4 Facilities 5 Postgrad Activities

Mission

LASIGE's main scientific domain is Informatics (Computer Science and Engineering), and main sub-domains addressed have been Distributed Systems, Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia, Information Management, Security and Dependability. LASIGE as a group has a flat organisation, being essentially research-line centred.

LaSIGE pursues a few strategic objectives as its mission: pursuing mid/long-term research objectives, structured by key set of research lines; addressing top state-of-the-art themes, aligned with current trends of international research (e.g., EU, US); promoting interdisciplinarity.

Advisory Board

• Eng. José Alegria, Performance and Security Engineering Director, Portugal Telecom SA – PT
• Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP Yahoo Research for Europe and Latin America – ES
• Prof. Kent Fuchs, Provost, Cornell University – US
• Prof. Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto – PT
• Prof. Brian Randell, Emeritus Professor, Univ. of Newcastle – UK

Associations

– LaSIGE is a partner of Instituto de Telecomunicações Laboratório Associado (IT-LA, http://www.it.pt/). The association is expected to bring mutual benefits brought by the extended coverage of ICT sujects, e.g. in national and international partnerships, networks and projects. The complementarities between IT and LaSIGE bring an added critical mass in interdisplinary research in ICT (Press Release, Nota de Imprensa).

– LaSIGE is also a founding member of INTERAC, an informal research units network, yielding a loosely-coupled virtual critical mass of over 170 PhDs, whose mission is to improve capacity of intervention and become a of stimulating forum for multidisciplinarity in selected areas of computer science and engineering. Founding research units: CCTC (http://cctc.uminho.pt/); CISUC (http://www.cisuc.uc.pt/); IEETA (http://www.ieeta.pt/); LaSIGE (http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/).

Facilities

The permanent or long-term research staff, members of FCUL faculty, are hosted in offices of the FCUL (Faculty of Sciences) Department of Informatics (DI). Besides, LASIGE maintains its own physical space also inside the DI premises. These are used to host post-docs or invited scientists, research associates, graduate and under-graduate students, and laboratory activities.

LASIGE is hosted in the C6 building and operates in three large open-space office rooms, plus an open-space laboratory. The offices can host a total of 36 researchers in individualized office slots, one of the rooms also hosts the unit’s administrative staff. LASIGE has its own workstations, servers and printers to provide working facilities for researchers. LASIGE possesses currently an extensive set of laboratorial machines, amongst which: a 25+ computer farm for distributed systems experiments; a restricted and isolated network for security experiments; a cluster of high-performance servers for information integration experiments; an audio-video studio for HCI experiments. LASIGE is also currently a member of several worldwide computational experiments, such as PlanetLab, EmuLab, or Leurré. Internet connectivity is assured through the Informatics Department - FCUL - FCCN networking infrastructures.

Laboratorial equipment is organized in a number of thematic workbenches.

Postgrad Activities

LASIGE members have a strong involvement in the postgrad courses organized by DI-FCUL, namely:

• Doutoramento em Informática;
• Doutoramento em Informática CMU-FCUL;
• Mestrado em BioInformática;
• Mestrado em Engenharia Informática;
• Mestrado em Gestão de Informação;
• Mestrado em Informática;
• Mestrado em Informática BioMédica;
• Mestrado em Segurança Informática CMU-FCUL;
• Curso de Especialização em Informática.