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The European project LeanBigData (Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics), where INESC TEC was one of the partners, represented by the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and the Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG), was concluded last month with an excellent evaluation from the European Commission, which stated that the consortium has developed very good scientific work with excellent results. The final evaluation took place in March in Madrid, Spain. |
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Last week, the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) welcomed high school students from the districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo, who chose HASLab to experience the activity of a researcher in the Informatics area. This visit took place as part of the 4th edition of the Best Students programme at UMinho. |
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The Software Engineering team at HASLab recently had four publications accepted in the very top conferences and journals in the area. Rui Abreu, Alcino Cunha, Nuno Macedo, Paolo Masci, Alexandre Perez and José Campos, together with their co-authors, had papers accepted at the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the International Conference on Software Engineering. |
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Ana Nunes Alonso defended in February her doctoral thesis entitled "Database Replication for Enterprise Applications", having received a unanimous evaluation of "very good" from the jury. |
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Luís Miguel Pinto and Tiago Loureiro, researchers at HASLab, defended their master's dissertations last week, both receiving a final mark of 17 (on a scale of 0 to 20). |
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Manuel Barbosa, a researcher at INESC TEC's High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and a professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), was one of the members of a European research team who received a "Privacy Protection" award. |
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LightKone, Lightweight Computation for Networks at the Edge, is the new European project featuring INESC TEC, represented by the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), whose goal is to develop a scientifically solid and validated model to perform distributed computing in edge networks. |
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The European project PRACTICE (Privacy-Preserving Computation in the Cloud), where INESC TEC was one of the partners, represented by the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), was concluded in 2016 with an excellent evaluation by the European Commission. |
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The kick-off meeting of European project InteGrid took place on 12 and 13 January, in Lisbon. The project is coordinated by EDP Distribuição and has been approved by the European Commission, as part of the European programme Horizon 2020, with a budget of 15 million Euros and a duration of 42 months. |
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José Nuno Oliveira, professor of the Computer Science Department of School of Engineering of the University of Minho, took office as Director of HASLab@UMinho last Friday, January 13th. |
