This past week, Vasco Vasconcelos, LASIGE member and director, won the ETAPS Test of Time Award with the paper “Language Primitives and Type Discipline for Structured Communication-Based Programming”, co-authored with Kohei Honda and Makoto Kubo. The ETAPS...
PixelsCamp, the largest hackathon in Portugal, was held between last Thursday to Saturday. During the event, teams had 48 hours to come up with a new idea and implement it. The event sponsors awarded prizes to the top 10 ideas presented in 90 second pitches. Salazar,...
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), with the support of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), presents every year the “University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Prizes”, which aims to reward scientific research activity and encourage the...
LASIGE researchers Tiago Guerreiro and André Rodrigues were part of the team that won the 1st place in the ACM/IEEE HRI 2019 Video Competition. This competition took place in Daegu, South Kore, this week. LASIGE participated with the video “Exploring...
Nuno Neves was elected as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT) for the period 2019-2020. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization, and the TCFC provides a forum for the exchange of ideas...
On the 28th of February, Google held the qualifying round globally through the internet. The best score from Portugal was obtained by Caracóis Hipercondríacos, a team that features two LASIGE junior researchers: Robin Vassantlal and Nuno Burnay. The team achieved 1st...
