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NOVA LINCS team is among the five finalists selected for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

For the second year in a row, the TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães is among the top 5 finalists in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge to advance Conversational AI.

NOVA LINCS is among the 10 research labs selected by Amazon for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

The TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães, is among the 10 teams around the globe selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions.

World Logic Day | Talks at NOVA LINCS

To celebrate the World Logic Day, NOVA LINCS will host two talks: "Logic, Computation, and Programming Languages" by Luís Caires and "Logic-based Explanations for Neural Networks" by João Leite.

iFetch results presented at CMU Portugal Summit 2022

NOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at ICGI 2022

NOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at INFORUM 2022

NOVA LINCS leads a research project with 7 million euros funding through the Horizon Europe programme

NOVA LINCS Ciência Viva Internship Program

NOVA LINCS and DI FCT NOVA offered an internship program for 9th grade students about basics of Informatics and Computer Science.

Luis Caires elected Chair of the Steering Committee of ESOP

ESOP is the most prestigious Conference on the broad field of programming languages and systems, and is a member of European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).

How current AI language models actually work?

Luis Caires, NOVA LINCS Director and coordinator of the Software Systems Group, discusses the recent Google AI sentience issue, and explains in simple terms how current AI language models actually work, and why we are still far from the Singularity.

Alexa Challenge: NOVA LINCS creates one of the top three Conversational AI systems

The team led by João Magalhães, NOVA LINCS researcher from Multimodal Systems Group and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at NOVA School of Science and Technology, ranked silver among the 10 international research groups selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Taskbot research challenge.

NOVA LINCS researcher receives Distinguished Paper Award at ECOOP 2022

Bernardo Toninho, NOVA LINCS researcher from the Software Systems Group, received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022).