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Alex Davidson publishes work at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Alex Davidson, NOVA LINCS researcher from the Computer Systems Group, presented the paper “Call Me By My Name: Simple, Practical Private Information Retrieval for Keyword Queries” at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), which took place in Salt Lake City (EUA), from October 14th to 18th, 2024. The paper, co-authored […]
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“Cryptography should be used freely, responsibly, and with awareness”
Henrique Domingos, a researcher from NOVA LINCS’s Computer Systems Group, discusses the importance of the free use of cryptography in an interview with the magazine Visão. In his view, rather than attempting to regulate, prohibit, or restrict the free use of cryptography and end-to-end encryption, it is essential to recognize that these are key elements for […]
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João Magalhães is the new co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
João Magalhães coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group and Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, was appointed in October 2024, as the new National Co-director of the CMU Portugal Program by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). João Magalhães now shares the leadership of the international partnership with Inês […]
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NOVA LINCS at Bridge Talks
Nuno Correia, NOVA LINCS Director, showcased successful examples of collaborations between academia, the arts and cultural heritage with impact in the preservation and creative uses of heritage, at Bridge Talks “Fusion: Bridging Art, Science and Technology” that took place at NOVA FCT on October 15. The work presented includes a virtual tour of Museu Nacional do […]
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PhD Workshop’24
The PhD Workshop’24 of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science from NOVA FCT took place on October 2nd. In this workshop the PhD students had the opportunity to share their research with all NOVA FCT community, and in particular with professors and younger students from the Master Program in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Multimodal Systems collaborates with the Portuguese Navy in Multimodal Dialog AI Systems
NOVA researchers participated in the REPMUS exercise organized by the Portuguese Navy with the participation of NATO. The NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems team created an AI assistant for the Navy to process complex tasks and critical information. The system was demonstrated to the Portuguese President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Admiral Gouveia […]
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The science behind Amazon Alexa TaskBot TWIZ: 4 publications at top NLP conferences
The AlexaTaskBot TWIZ team is having lots of fun publishing the research results of our journey: 4 papers at ACL2024, EMNLP2024 and EACL2024 conferences so far. The first article describes our research towards PlanLLM@EACL2024, a model that can ground its behavior on a step-by-step plan of instructions. It was the first of such models that […]
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NOVA LINCS Receives Google Gift to research Drone Video AI Agent for Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Prof. João Magalhães, coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group, received a Google Gift to research Vision and Language AI models to analyze videos obtained by Drones in scenarios of natural disasters and climate change. Drone-mounted cameras opened a multitude of applications across a wide range of fields. They enable analysis over vast territories, facilitating comprehensive […]
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From Ambiguity to Clarity: Navigating Uncertainty in Human-Machine Conversations
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University)
15 July 2024, 11h00
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How Large Corpora Sizes Influence the Distribution of Low Frequency Text n-grams
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (NOVA FCT – NOVA LINCS)
10 July 2024, 14h00