In the early morning of November 23rd, a landslide occurred in the parish of Palmeira de Faro, Esposende, Braga district, killing a 22-year-old couple. In this context, the ANEPC – National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection requested support from the University of Minho for technical rescue work and was […]
Monthly Archives: December 2022
The University of Minho, the Agency for Administrative Modernization (AMA) and the United Nations University – Operational Unit in Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) presented on the 20th, the results of the Index of Internet Presence of Municipalities (IPIC). The public session took place at 17h00, in the Paço Gallery – Rectory […]
On December 19 and 20, Jorge Carvalho Pais, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, in the field of Civil Engineering, took his Habilitation exams. The professor of the School of Engineering was unanimously approved by the members of the jury. The exams took place in the Hall of Acts […]
Fábio Rafael Santos de Freitas, Pedro Domingues, Lino Costa, André M. Carvalho, researchers of the ALGORITMI Centre are the authors of the article “Development of a predictive model of performance indicators in integrated management systems supported in artificial neural networks”, winner of the Best Article Award of the magazine Qualidade […]
EARLY – PhagE towARds initiaL amYloide-beta was one of the three big winners of the Financing Contest for Proof of Concept – iProof . This project, led by Ivone Martins, researcher at CEB, developed a tool based on bacteriophages (bacterial viruses), for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, with high therapeutic […]
The investiture of the management team of CTAC – Center for Territory, Environment and Construction took place on December 6th, in the meeting room of this research center of the School of Engineering. José Luís Barroso de Aguiar, Associate Professor with Habilition of the Department of Civil Engineering of the […]
Edgar Xavier Carvalho Pinto, 3rd year student of the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, and Catarina de Abreu Felgueiras were two of the fifteen UMinho students competing for the 3rd edition of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2022. The students from the School of Engineering presented on December […]
António Gomes Correia, retired Professor from EEUM and Professor Emeritus from UMinho, was awarded the title of Honorary President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG) in the evocative session of the 50th Anniversary of SPG, and integrated in the commemoration programme of the 75th anniversary of the Laboratório Nacional de […]
Beatriz da Silva Simões and Beatriz Silva de Freitas, Master’s students in Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering were awarded merit scholarships by the E-REDES Top Women Scholarship Programme. This E-REDES initiative aims to attract young women finalists of master’s degrees in the areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, by awarding […]
“Endowing Intelligent Vehicles with the Ability to Learn User’s Habits and Preferences with Machine Learning Methods”, by ALGORITMI researchers Carlos Fernandes, Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira, Paulo Barbosa, Pedro Guimarães, Sérgio Monteiro, Weronika Wojtak, and also CMAT researcher Wolfram Erlhagen, was published in the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering […]
The study by Paulo Sérgio Almeida, INESC TEC researcher and professor at the University of Minho, focuses on Bloom Filters, a very popular probabilistic data structure in the design of databases, distributed systems, and communication networks. The study, which demonstrates the versatility of partitioned Bloom Filters, was accepted for publication […]
Paulo Novais, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was awarded the “Career Recognition Award” by the Ibero-American Society of Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), for his scientific contributions to artificial intelligence and to the development of the community in this area. The distinction was awarded during the […]