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Kevin Gallagher’s opinion article on Internet security in Observador
Kevin Gallagher, a researcher from NOVA LINCS’s Computer Systems Group, discusses the largest security issue currently facing Internet users in an opinion article for the Observador newspaper. In the article he discussed how attackers have discovered a new method to exploit the Internet for malicious purposes: scamming users. In his view, we need to adopt […]
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NOVA LINCS team selected for the Amazon Nova AI Challenge
David Semedo and João Magalhães, researchers at the NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems group, had their research proposal selected for the 2025 Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a global university AI competition. Their proposal, which focuses on enhancing the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs), was one of the ten selected applications from a pool of 90 applicants worldwide. […]
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“Cultural Heritage 360”: providing free online access to Portuguese Cultural Heritage
The “Cultural Heritage 360” project was presented at the National Museum of Archaeology last January 16th in a public session with the participation of the Secretary of State for Culture, the President of the Museums and Monuments of Portugal EPE and the President of the Cultural Heritage IP. The project includes the digitalization of 59,500 […]
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NOVA LINCS projects submitted to the call for IC&DT projects in AI, Data Science and Cybersecurity approved for funding
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has recently released the provisional results of Call for scientific research and technological development (IC&DT) projects in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Cybersecurity of relevance to Public Administration. We are very proud to announce that all the six projects submitted by NOVA LINCS researchers to this call were […]
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Portugal Crypto Day 2024
The workshop Portugal Crypto Day took place on 13th December 2024 in Lisbon, at NOVA FCSH, as part of the CertiCoLab project, funded by EEA Grants Portugal. At the workshop, with more than 60 participants, some of the latest research taking place in the field of cryptography were showcased. The abstracts and presentations at the workshop […]
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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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Iso-Recursive Multiparty Sessions and their Automated Verification
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Marco Giunti (University of Oxford, England)
19 March 2025, 14h00
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Machine Learning as a magnifying glass to study society
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Joana Gonçalves de Sá (LIP and NOVA LINCS)
12 March 2025, 14h00