The Luís Vidigal Prize awards, every year, a cash sum and recognition to the student author whose thesis gathers the best scientific, innovation and quality characteristics. João Domingos, tutored by Professor João Xavier, has won the 2018 edition for his Master's thesis: “A Step Towards Distributed Control of Massive-scale Networks.” The award was announced at the opening [...]
In an increasingly aged society, how can technology help combat a sedentary lifestyle? Serious games are tasks built to be a ludic activity while also being aimed at a process of physical rehabilitation. When motivated by the score and distracted by the game the user ends up experiencing as much physical effort as they would [...]
Robot competitions seem to be a growing event that increasingly includes more and more people. At ISR-Lisboa this kind of competition is becoming a staple, particularly with researchers at the Mobile Robotics Lab. Professor Pedro Lima, from IRSg, explained some of the reasons why competing with robot technology might be such a good pairing with [...]
Ricardo Cabral was awarded the IBM Scientific Prize 2015 for his PhD thesis entitled “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning.” The thesis was supervised by Professors João Paulo Costeira (SIPg), Alexandre Bernardino (VisLab) and Fernando de la Torre (CMU) . The IBM Scientific prize is awarded every year in Portugal and it is highly prestigious [...]
