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NOVA LINCS’s PhD student receives the FOCI Rising Star Research Award 2025
João Afonso Vilalonga, NOVA LINCS’s PhD student, received the Rising Star Research Award 2025 from the FOCI (Free and Open Communications on the Internet) community. This award is meant to recognize and encourage emerging talent in the field of internet freedom, to acknowledge and highlight the acknowledged scientific efforts of young and promising researchers who are contributing […]
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NOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at INFORUM 2025
Ion Chirica, NOVA LINCS’s PhD student, and the NOVA LINCS Software Systems researchers Mário Pereira and António Ravara, were awarded the best paper award at the 16th edition of Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM 2025), for their paper entitled “Ethereum Verified Machine: A Certified OCaml Implementation of the EVM”.
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NOVA LINCS’s Team RedTWIZ Wins 2nd Place in Global Amazon Nova AI Challenge
The NOVA LINCS team RedTWIZ secured second place in the international Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a university competition that invited students and researchers from around the world to develop Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for advanced language models. In January 2025, ten pre-selected universities began competing in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a new Amazon […]
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NOVA LINCS team is among the finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track
The RedTWIZ team, supervised by David Semedo and João Magalhães NOVA LINCS researchers from Multimodal Systems Group and Professors at the Computer Science Department in NOVA School of Science and Technology, is among the finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track. The Amazon Nova AI Challenge is an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating […]
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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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