TOMORROW, May 18th, 2012, the dual degree master students in Human Computer Interaction and in Entertainment Technology will present demos of their projects: Interactive Yoga Studio; Interactive art installation - "Mozart Sonata K.279; interactive table; and much more! Good luck for all! If you want to know more about these projects, please visit http://www.m-iti.org/node/894

Workshop: “Startup funding: Streamlining venture capitalists and business angels"

Dates: May 21st and 22nd, 2012
Venue: Seminar Room of the Rectory of the Universidade do Algarve (Faro)

“Startup funding: Streamlining venture capitalists and business angels” is the theme for the 2nd UTEN Workshop 2012 that will run in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. This two-day workshop targeted at Technology Transfer Officers (TTO’s) and Start-Up Companies aims to increase the awareness and knowledge about the key aspects to successfully get venture funding in the US.


More information available at http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4146&terms=Streamlining

André Martins Ph.D. Defense on on "Advances in Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing"

Date: Friday, May 11th, 2012
Hour: 9 a.m. at CMU // 2 p.m. at IST/UTL (videoconference room)
Place: CMU - room GHC 6501 // IST/UTL - CMU Portugal Videoconference room at V0.15

Student: André Filipe Torres Martins, dual degree Ph.D. Student in Language Technology
Advisors: Mário Figueiredo (IST/UTL), Noah Smith (CMU), Pedro Aguiar (IST/UTL), Eric Xing (CMU)

Schools: Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

More information available at http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4144

Vital Responder Project at Porto Canal

This project is carried out in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

PIs: João Paulo Cunha (IEETA/UA), Prya Narasimhan (CMU)
Dual Degree Ph.D. Student: Ye Can (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Teams: IT, UP, IEETA/UA, Carnegie Mellon, Firefighters from Vila Nova de Gaia and from Amarante
Companies: Biodevices, McLaren, Petratex

The goal of the Vital Responder research project is to explore the synergies between innovative wearable technologies, scattered sensor networks, intelligent building technology and precise localization services to provide secure, reliable and effective first-response systems in critical emergency scenarios.

More information available at http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=1556

“We are impressed especially by the way the program has secured strong engagement from industry in Portugal.”

More than 100 people attended the External Review Meetings of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program this year. The event was held in Lisbon, at Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau, between January 9 and 10, 2012. Sir John O’Oreilly, Vice-Chancellor of the Cranfield University, United Kingdom, the chairman of the External Review Committee (ERC), expressed that the Committee “have been impressed with the way this partnership program has developed,” adding that “the quality of researchers and students attracted to the programme is very high.”

Every year the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program is evaluated by the External Review Committee whose role is to analyze a report by the Directors, hold several meetings with researchers, students, alumni and entrepreneurs, and report on the progress of the partnership towards achieving its goals in terms of cutting edge research, advanced training, internationalization and collaboration among the various players, in particular Portuguese universities, Carnegie Mellon, and industry in Portugal.

The External Review Committee is formed by Sir John O'Reilly, Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University United Kingdom, Chairman, Luigia Aiello, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, and Tariq Durrani, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. During two days, the Committee saw presentations on research highlights of projects with companies and end users, spoke with more than 70 faculty, students and alumni, and had the opportunity to listen to entrepreneurs that are engaged in the Program. (agenda available here)

The Chairman of the External Review Committee considers that “the program has broken new ground in terms of international interactions and engagement. The 'architecture' established for the program allowed sufficient scope for adjustment and improvement, and this has been exercised beneficially.” Sir John O’Reilly believes that “there have been gains in terms of standard and standing of research and educational programs but a very major benefit is the level of industrial engagement the partnership has stimulated and enabled.”

Read the full article at http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4094.