First Annual Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Conference

Welcome to the First Annual Carnegie Mellon Portugal Conference

The First Annual Carnegie Mellon Portugal Conference, entitled “Economy 3.0: Re-Boot and Re-Connect” is sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and will take place on June 22, 2009, at Palácio da Bolsa, Porto, Portugal.

The current financial crisis has casted some doubt on the existing economic model. Rather than re-booting the system, leaders around the world must re-connect and work towards the growth of global innovation networks, capable of providing robust and sustainable solutions for our common future.

In this context, information and communication technologies have no doubt an important role to play, not only because they remove both geographic and cultural barriers, but also because they are basic building blocks in the search for technical solutions that ensure a more intelligent use of the resources of our planet (e.g. smart grids, vehicular networks, precision agriculture, etc.) and of the talents of our people (workflow software, social networks, personalized contents, etc.). Any increase in competitive advantage is necessarily tied to our ability to lead this search in focused areas of technological innovation. The goal of this conference is to identify some of these areas, from basic research to applications, actively promoting the formation of industrial and academic consortia capable of meeting the challenges of Economy 3.0.

The program includes:

• keynote address by Prof. Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University
• presentation of a strategic document on the key focused areas of our program and announcement of the next open call for proposals
• research talks by CarnegieMellonPortugal faculty, researchers and MS/PhD students
• technical contributions by our industrial affiliates
• first results and demos by all teams of ongoing research projects
• welcome and closing addresses by senior government officials
• networking opportunities for students, faculty, researchers and industrial affiliates
  

Registration
Although conference admission is free of charge, we kindly ask you to fill a short registration form for planning purposes.
Students and Alumni should register and submit their poster topics until June 12, 2009. An online form is available here.
All other participants, please register until June 15, 2009. The form is available here.

More information in http://www.cmuportugal.org/conference2009/ .

Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Summer Academy

Dear Members of the CarnegieMellonPortugal Community:

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Summer Academy is a unique event organized by ICTI involving several workshops and talks covering many breakthrough and practical issues on the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Tailored for an industry audience with hands-on experience in key methods and techniques for service, software and game development, technology change and entrepreneurship. The workshops and talks will be offered by an international team of experts from the Carnegie Mellon faculty and also invited professors from world renown institutions in the ICT field.

Participants will have an opportunity to choose between the following 2,5 day workshops:
W1 - Embodied Futures
W2 - Interaction Design for non-Designers
W3 - Agile Software Engineering (1 day + 1 day)
W4 - Service Modeling
W5 - Innovation, Entrepreneurship and ICT Policy (1 day + 1 day)
W6 - Videogame Development
DC - Doctoral Consortium (1 day)

The workshops will take place on June 23-25 according to the following timetable:
June 23, from 9:00h to 18:00h
June 24, from 14:00h to 18:00h
June 25, from 9:00h to 18:00h

Participation is subject to registration, the fee includes all the material to be used in the workshops plus the meals and meetings presented in the timetable.

Event location
Hotel Ipanema Porto
Social venues
Welcome event - 22 June 2009 at Palácio da Bolsa (18.00h)
Closing Dinner - 25 June 2009 at Taylor’s Port Wine Cellars (19.30h)

More information in http://www.cmuportugal.org/summeracademy/.

JUNE 22, 2009 Carnegie Mellon | Portugal Conference

Dear Members of the CarnegieMellon|Portugal Community:

This year's main event for our partnership is the CarnegieMellon|Portugal Conference to be held on MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009 in Porto, Portugal. The chosen venue is the magnificient Palacio da Bolsa, right by the River Douro, in the heart of the World Heritage Site of Porto.

We expect the largest possible attendance by members of our community in Portugal and at Carnegie Mellon.

The main objectives of the event are to present current results to the general public and to set an ambitious research agenda for the future. The conference program shall include:

• presentation of a strategic document on the key focused areas of our program
• research talks by CarnegieMellon|Portugal faculty, researchers and MS/PhD students
• technical contributions by our industrial affiliates
• first results and demos by all teams of ongoing research projects
• welcome and closing addresses by senior government officials
• networking opportunities for students, faculty, researchers and industrial affiliates

In addition, we are organizing a Summer Academy for CarnegieMellon|Portugal students and industrial partners, to take place during the period of JUNE 23-25, 2009 at the University of Porto.

More detailed information on the program will be forthcoming. Please send your ideas and suggestions to jbarros@cmuportugal.org.

With best regards,

The Leadership Team of the CarnegieMellon|Portugal Program

Boa Páscoa!

We wish you Boa Páscoa / Happy Easter!

When we come back from the Easter break, there will be more more news and stories. Stay tuned!

Tartan Olympics!

Carnegie Mellon's Student Athletic Advisory Council is staging a "Tartan Olympics," open to all students. Form a team with your friends and email your contact info, your team's name and your preferred event to: cmusaac@gmail.com.

The Tartan Olympics is a multi-contest event engaging different student organizations(dorms, fraternities, sororities, clubs, honor societies, religious groups, music groups, random groups of friends).

Choose an event: Juggling, Rubik's Cube relay, singing/karaoke, DDR, kickball, ice-rink/sled riding, wall-ball, spelling bee, tug-of-war, eating competition, volleyball, pool/splash competition.

The winning student group of the Tartan Olympics will receive a prize of $500.

The Tartan Olympics will take place over the weekend of January 23-25. In addition to the competition, there will be various activities and social events around campus.