The University of Minho is the national institution with the most requests for “patent families”, according to the “Barómetro Inventa 2023 – Patentes Made in Portugal”. The university’s 69 registrations include medical, biotechnological, autonomous driving, manufacturing, production and construction innovations, among others. The results reinforce the role of UMinho and […]
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The University of Minho has three scientists among the most cited in the world by other researchers – António Vicente and José António Teixeira, from the Centre for Biological Engineering (CEB), and Rui L. Reis, from the 3B’s Group. This was confirmed today by the Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list, […]
Is it possible to innovate even further with a non-alcoholic beer? Researchers from EEUM’s Centre of Biological Engineering in partnership with the Super Bock Group and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto have proved that it is. This partnership is at the origin of the search for […]
The University of Minho has 65 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group, of which 37 are from the School of Engineering. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]
The multiple situations in which the transactional system does not ensure isolation to databases, thus compromising their efficiency, were the starting point for the research dedicated to the design and implementation of isolation in the query engine, preparing it for hybrid workloads. Databases that support structures like banking or commerce […]
The headquarters of the Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI) – the largest in the country, with more than 500 scientists from 13 R&D centres in seven academies and led by Paulo Novais, from UMinho’s School of Engineering – was inaugurated on October 19 at the Guimarães Business and Innovation […]
Marisa Ferreira, an engineer who graduated from UMinho’s School of Engineering, was awarded the Engineer of the Year prize at the Contruir 2023 Awards, an initiative that honours the best in engineering, architecture and construction in Portugal. Born in São João da Madeira and currently working with the company Afaconsult, […]
The secretary of the Resilience Engineering Association, Pedro Ferreira, and the presidents of the Portuguese and Brazilian Ergonomics associations, Teresa Cotrim and Lucy Mara Baú respectively, will open the 1st Luso-Brazilian Seminar on Resilience Engineering this Thursday. The initiative took place on 28 September, online, and featured a dozen guest […]
The University of Minho’s School of Engineering is coordinating a European project worth around five million euros that is looking for natural-based technological solutions to protect critical infrastructures. The initiative involves five European cities, including Aveiro, and aims to minimise the effects of climate change. The project is called NBSINFRA […]
Luís Filipe Cunha, Ricardo Campos and Alípio Jorge won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’23), with the article “Event Extraction for Portuguese: A QA-driven Approach using ACE-2005”. EPIA’23 took place between 5th and 8th September 2023 in the Azores, on the island […]
The pertinence of runtime security is rapidly engaging companies and institutions worldwide, that are becoming more aware of their vulnerabilities and consequences of attacks, in the age of digital transformation affecting workflows across industries. With the different skillsets and expertise of the FISHY Consortium partners, the impact of the novelty […]
In our daily lives, we barely notice the structures that support sectors like commerce, banking, or others, as well as high transactional data loads. In general, we only become aware of them during disruptions, which end up influencing the normal functioning of said services. In order to improve the performance […]