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.

Miguel Matos, invited researcher at HASLab@INESC TEC, was chosen for the position of Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the University of Lisbon. The vacancy was  announced in the Diário da República.

Nine HASLab researchers supervised the dissertations of twelve students from the Department of Informatics, who defended their master's theses this month and obtained, on average, an evaluation of 17.5.

The European CloudDBAppliance project, which aims to create a platform that offers databases as a service at European level, kicked off last week in Grenoble, France. This project will be funded with about €5M by the European Commission.

Luís Soares Barbosa, a researcher of the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and professor of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, completed the public exam to obtain the title of “Agregado”in December, which was unanimously approved by the members of the jury.

The European project SafeCloud received a positive assessment in its first year of activity from the European Commission, which took place in November in Brussels.

The High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), together with the Multimedia Telecommunications Centre (CTM), will represent INESC TEC in the Cloud Setup project, a project promoted by the consortium between MOG Technologies and INESC TEC.

Francisco Cruz’s doctoral thesis defence (held in November) was unanimously approved by the jury with "very good”. The doctoral thesis was entitled "Towards autonomic workload aware NoSQL databases”.