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LASIGE publishes findings on VR improving the navigation performance for blind people
The paper “How VR Systems Impact Virtual Navigation for Blind People”, co-authored by LASIGE’s researchers Manuel Piçarra and João Guerreiro, was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), a top-ranked journal (Q1). The paper will be presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2026), a […]
Luís Correia advocates a wide-ranging debate on ethics and the limits of AI
Luís Correia, LASIGE integrated member, commented on the Radio France International (RFI), on the potential dangers and threats posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the incident that took place in August 2026 in which ChatGPT managed to escape from the isolated system where it was being trained, accessed the internet and infiltrated another company to […]
Improving the detection of unseen cyberattacks in industrial systems
LASIGE’s PhD student Allan da S. Espindola and integrated members António Casimiro and Pedro M. Ferreira in collaboration with Altair O. Santin and Eduardo K. Viegas from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil, was published in the top 10% journal Future Generation Computer Systems. The paper entitled “Enhancing Intrusion Detection Generalization via Diversity-Driven […]
LASIGE participated in the ENSPM26
Vasco Vasconcelos, LASIGE integrated member, delivered a talk “A Connection between Types in Programming Languages and Grammars in Formal Languages”, in the ENSPM26 (National Conference of the Portuguese Mathematical Society), on 2–4 September 2026, Oeiras. Vasconcelos talked about decision types equivalences into grammars, as there is a close connection between types in programming languages and […]
Vasco Vasconcelos Serves as Program Chair at INForum 2026
Vasco Vasconcelos, an integrated researcher at LASIGE, is the Program Chair for INForum 2026 – Simpósio de Informática, alongside Ana Alonso, and the event will be held on September 3–4 in Setubal. The 16th edition of the annual national symposium brought together researchers, students, and industry professionals for a two-day lunch-to-lunch event covering various areas […]
International Conference on Computational Complexity brings together researchers in Lisbon
The Computational Complexity Conference 2026 (CCC’26) took place in Lisbon from 3 to 6 August at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The conference brought together researchers from various countries working at the forefront of computational complexity theory, a central area of theoretical computer science that seeks to understand the fundamental limits […]