Several LASIGE members were involved in the organization of the third edition of "Girls in ICT@ Ciências.ULisboa", that took place at May 6th, 2017.
The "Girls in ICT Day" - World Day for Young Women in Information and Communication Technologies, is an initiative of the International Telecommunication Union, that visa to raise awareness to young women about career opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
The Biomedical Text Mining Workshop organised by LASIGE researchers, André Lamurias, Luis F. Campos and Francisco M. Couto, took place at Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, in the first day of the 6th Bioinformatics Open Days (BOD'17) symposium, that ocurred from February 22nd to 24th.
The Talk@ DI of last February 7th, presented by Chen Wang, vice diretor at Future Media Convergence Institute (FMCI), Xinhua Net, China, was dedicated to the subject "Sensing a Live Audience", with particular interest to LASIGE's Human Computer Interaction research area.
The invitation to provide a talk, made by Teresa Chambel , encompassed a visit by Chen Wang to the Informatics Department of FCUL dedicated to present the latest work in progress at FMCI.
Nuno Neves was invited to a brainstorm session about the Impact of Telco/TI/Contents convergence and the Digital Transformation in 2020, in an event associated to the 1st anniversary cellebration of Altice Labs. The session, that occured at February 16th, 2017, addressed the society impact in 2020 related to ethics, policies, privacy and security.
The 10th edition of the International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2017) will be exclusively organized by Vasco Vasconcelos, and will take place at Uppsala, Sweden, April 29th.
PLACES is affiliated with the international Conferente ETAPS 2017, and offers a forum where researchers from different fields can exchange new ideas on key challenges to modern and future programming– where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern.
The LASIGE | ULisboa team, composed by Miguel Rodriques, Miguel Falé and Francisco Couto was awarded at the 4th edition of the BioASQ Challenge - A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering, that took place in 2016. The challenges include tasks relevant to hierarchical text classification, machine learning, information retrieval, QA from texts and structured data, multi-document summarization and many other areas.
The portuguese Centro Nacional de Cibersegurança (National Center of Cybersecurity), invited Nuno Neves to participate in a round table about ransomware in an event fully dedicated to the subject, that took place at CNCS headquarters at January 27th, 2017. The panel was composed by members from academia, corporate and specialized press.
Webpage of the event: https://www.cncs.gov.pt/atividades/cibertemas/ransomware/
The work develloped by LASIGE researchers Tiago Guerreiro, Luís Carriço and Diogo Marques, in collaboration with researchers from the University of British Columbia, about the intrusions of Facebook accounts by nearby people, received high media attention. The research was accepted for publication (see the article here) in the conference of human factors in computer systems, ACM CHI, the most relevant in the area of human-machine interaction, worldwide.
The competitive IBM Faculty award, was granted to Alysson Bessani. This prize is awarded to Professors from the best Universities around the world, who are suggested by IBM Research investigators and then assessed internally at the company.
The forthcoming Dagstuhl Seminar (17051), dedicated to the topic Theory and Applications of Behavioural Types, will be co-organised by Vasco Vasconcelos. The organising team it's completed by Simon Gay from the University of Glasgow (GB), Philip Wadler from the University of Edinburgh (GB) and Nobuko Yoshida from the Imperial College London (GB).
LASIGE is supported by FCT, project UID/CEC/00408/2019
