Teresa Chambel was invited Keynote Speaker at WebMedia 2016, a symposium that took place on November 8-11th, 2016, in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.

Nuno Neves will participate as primary chair of the "Security and Privacy" track at the upcoming conference CloudCom 2016 - The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, one of the most selective IEEE conference on the Cloud area, that will occur next month from December 12th to 15th, 2016, at Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

Teresa Chambel is editor of the Special Issue on "Immersive Media Experiences" of the Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal by Springer, October 2016.

The European Space Agency (ESA) published the billion-star map, develloped by Márcia Barros. The map is the first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.

The work that lead to the map, "A pipeline to produce a scientifically accurate visualisation of the Milky Way" by Márcia Barros, Francisco M. Couto, Hélder Savietto, Carlos Barata, Miguel Domingos, Alberto Krone-Martins, and André Moitinho, was recently presented at INFórum 2016.