On 22 November, the University of Minho and the University of Vigo (Galicia) held a Research Forum to showcase their projects in 11 scientific areas and deepen cooperation. The initiative took place in the Zulmira Simões auditorium of the UMinho School of Medicine, on the Gualtar campus in Braga. The […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The XII edition of the Symposium of the Group of Energy and Power Electronics (GEPE) took place last June 29th, in hybrid format (online and in the Azurém campus of the University of Minho). The program of this edition included the presentation of the Power and Energy Electronics Group and […]
HasLab – INESC TEC UMinho researchers have developed a study that aims to show the feasibility and usefulness of variational quantum circuits in terms of reinforcement learning, using quantum circuits in the central processing unit responsible for automatic decision-making. This is one of the first research papers to prove the […]
Last May 15 there was a story published in The Register, a global online news publication covering the worlds of technology and enterprise software, which reaches about 40 million readers worldwide, mentioning a paper presented by Sandro Pinto and Cristiano Rodrigues, researchers from the ALGORITMI Center at Black Hat Asia […]
José Nuno Oliveira, researcher coordinator of the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) of INESC TEC and professor at the Department of Informatics of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, is together with Ana Neri (INESC TEC) and in collaboration with Rui Barbosa, Staff Researcher at the International Iberian […]
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 […]
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 […]
The University of Minho has 57 scientists in the group of the 2% most influential in the world over the last year, 35 of which belong to the School of Engineering, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]
ISIC 2022 took place on September 6-9, in Guimarães. This international conference was rebranded in 2019 by the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG), launched in Guimarães, Portugal, during the 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics in 2016. ISIC 2022 is the third international ISIC conference, following the first conference […]