“Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation: Connect with Pittsburgh for a Regional Growth”

 Date: October 31, 2012
Hour: 09:45 am – 11:15 am
Organization: Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
Venue: Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, (room 520-A, 2º floor)
Registration Form: http://tinyurl.com/czbrjyt [limited number of participants]
Agenda: http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4418

Speakers:
	Suzi Pegg, Vice President, International, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA), USA
	DeWitt Peart, Executive Vice President, Economic Development, Allegheny Conference on Community Development; President, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, an affiliate of the Allegheny Conference

Launching of the Dual Degree Program Between Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon

Date: October 23, 2012
Hour: 15:00
Place: Porto Business School, Portugal
Registrations: Helena Pinto: hpinto@pbs.up.pt
Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) have developed a dual degree program which allows participants the possibility to obtain, simultaneously, a Professional MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering awarded by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and The Magellan MBA diploma, awarded by Porto Business School. The program lasts 2 years: one year in Pittsburgh at CMU and the other in Portugal, Porto, at Porto Business School and FEUP, where the participants, besides their classes at The Magellan MBA, have to take two courses at FEUP to complete their MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Agenda available at: http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4424

Bhiksha Raj Talk about Privacy-Preserving Speech and Audio Processing

 

Date: September 28th, 14h
Place: Room 020, INESC-ID
Speaker: Bhiksha Raj Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Bhiksha Raj is an Associate Professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, with additional affiliations to the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Machine Learning departments. Dr. Raj obtained his Ph.D. from CMU in 2000 and was at Mistubishi Electric Research Laboratories from 2001-2008. Dr. Raj's chief research interests lie in automatic speech recognition, computer audition, machine learning and data privacy. Dr. Raj's latest research interests lie in the newly emerging field of privacy-preserving speech processing, in which his research group has made several contributions.

Congratulations to Rodrigo Belo!

Rodrigo Belo, dual degree Ph.D. student in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship, successfully passed his Ph.D. Thesis Defense titled "Broadband in Schools: Effects on Student Performance and Spillovers for Household Internet Adoption." The defense was held yesterday, August 9, at Carnegie Mellon. Rodrigo Belo became the fifth dual degree doctorate in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Advisors: Pedro Ferreira (IST/UTL) and Rahul Telang (CMU)

Rodrigo Belo's Profile: http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=2996

“These Robots Are Not Science Fiction”

Manuela Veloso, a well-known Portuguese researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), was recently interviewed by WIRED Magazine (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/worlds-most-wired-roboticist/) about her team’s challenges and wishes to build up the first robots that will “intermingle with the living, breathing masses.”

After pursuing research on automated planning algorithms for her Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science at CMU, Manuela Veloso became interested in actual intelligent robots, capable of the complete autonomy cycle: detect the state of the world, generate a plan to achieve goals, and actually execute planned actions - just like humans do.

Manuela Veloso within the CMU Portugal Program
In the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, Manuela Veloso has several roles: she is the Principal Investigator on a research project, serves as an advisor within the Program, and receives faculty exchange members at CMU. As a Principal Investigator at Carnegie Mellon of the MAIS+S project, she works in conjunction with the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL) with the research institutes: INESC ID and ISR, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Portuguese company Observit. The project addresses the problem of planning in decentralized multi-agent systems in the context of intelligent surveillance networks. Susana Brandão is the dual degree doctoral student in Electrical and Computer Engineering whom is advised by Veloso and João Paulo Costeira, a professor from the IST/UTL. Recently Manuela Veloso received at CMU Rodrigo Ventura an Assistant Professor at the IST/UTL.

Read the full article at http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4310 .