José C. Campos, a professor at the University of Minho, and Michael Harrison, both researchers from HASLab/INESC TEC, were awarded an honourable mention in the EICS 2016 conference, for the paper "Modelling information resources and their salience in medical device design", which also counted on the collaboration of Rimvydas Rukšénas and Paul Curzon, researchers from Queen Mary University of London.

José Creissac Campos, researcher from HASLab/INESC TEC and professor at the University of Minho, was recently elected president of the working group 2.7/13.4 of IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing.

Filipe Campos, a researcher of HASLab/INESC TEC & UMinho, defended his doctoral thesis "Fault Tolerant Service Integration" last week, achieving a grade of "very good”.

Ali Shoker, post-doctoral researcher of HASLab/INESC TEC & UMinho, founded INESC TEC Young Scientists group last week. This group aims at the production of science and life amongst all centres of R&D of INESC TEC via the three pillars of action: Research and Teaching, Social Activities and Technology and Development.

Luís Soares Barbosa, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, and Sara Fernandes, both researchers of HASLab/INESC TEC & UMinho, acted as promotors of the PT- FLAD Chair in Smart Cities and Smart Governance, whose founding protocol was signed last week in the Couros Campus. The aim of the Chair is to consolidate the research on Smart Cities and Smart Governance within the University, and foster partnerships and innovation projects with the public and private sector.

Georges Younes, researcher at HASLab/INESC TEC & UMinho and PhD student at the Doctoral Programme in Computer Science (MAP- i), will receive funding from the Google Summer of Code programme 2016 - a global programme funded by Google with a view to include students in the areas of Informatics and Computer Science in the development of open source software.

Nuno Cardoso, researcher of HASLab /INESC TEC & UMinho, defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Spectrum-based Diagnosis for Run-time Systems" last week, and was approved by the jury.

HASLab/INESC TEC researchers Manuel Barbosa and José Bacelar Almeida, have received the best paper award at the 2016 Fast Software Encryption Conference, which took place in March.