17 May 2012

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

09 May 2012

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